1. Your task is to write a detailed response to the key selection criteria that you specified in A2-1. Your response should be a two-three page essay that may be written in the form of an extended cover letter. Most importantly, your essay must include a detailed response to each of the key selection criteria explaining how YOU meet the criteria. Your response should indicate that you are familiar with the requirement and have demonstratable evidence of your mastery of the required skill.
2. Please do not skip any criterion. If you think that a certain criterion is relevant, but you have not mastered the skill yet, explain what your current level is and how you plan to improve it. This task (A2-2) constitutes 50% of your grade for this assignment.

# Criterion Description (what a successful applicant must be able to do or be proficient in) 1 Accounting Skills |Knowledge of accounting principles, standards, and techniques, as well as calculating budgets, cost analysis and reduction, managing cash flow and a general ledger, reconciling bank statements, and basic knowledge of accounting programs and the mathematical formulas involved in these calculations. 2 Technical Skills The ability to learn new software or applications that may be necessary for performing effectively as a financial analyst. 3 Communication Being direct when sending emails, leaving phone messages, speaking Skills to an investor about important financial information, and utilizing nonverbal communication to navigating professional and working relationships. 4 Problem Solving Solving financial equations effectively or finding solutions to a Skills company's debt problems. 5 Financial Literacy |The ability to decipher financial situations, knowledge of things like Skills the current investment market, interest rates among lenders, and other financial current events. 6 Analytical Skills The ability to forecast, plan, prioritize, rank, and recognize financial problems