Now only 2 remain…
Last night was “interview round” – and as promised, lots of tough questions for our bright-eyed candidates who didn’t fail to disappoint with their rather flamboyant CV’s!
The interview team was a tough panel to impress, they were lot tougher than previous years as they really drilled down into references and even filed accounts, as Yasmina found out!
This was my favourite part of this episode – Yasmina’s interview with Claude – you would think that as a Financial Director in her own business she would know its current financial position and that your published accounts (sent to companies house) are indeed pubic and can be obtained from anyone!
Just for clarification, I’ve included the correct definitions for Yasmina:
1. Sales Revenue (Turnover) = Price (of product) x Quantity Sold
2. Gross profit = sales revenue – cost of sales and other direct costs
3. Operating profit = Gross profit – overheads and other indirect costs
4. Pre-tax profit or Net profit = operating profit – one off items and redundancy payments, staff restructuring – interest payable
5. Profit after tax = Pre-tax profit – tax
6. Retained profit = Profit after tax – Dividends
Watch the door handle doesn’t hit your bum on the way out…
James – our comedian over the course of this years Apprentice was his normal charming self – minus a few bent spokes, whilst Debra was as hard-nosed as we could expect – even her references called her a bitch, and I don’t think that Lorraine’s special gift of “intuition” was working, otherwise she would have predicted that her journey was over and she also be shown the door.
The Final
So onto Sunday’s Final (Sunday 7th June @ 9pm BBC1) when Kate (27, Licensing Development Manager) and Yasimina (27, award-winning restaurateur) battle it out in two teams – one will become Sir Alan’s next apprentice..but who?
My money is on Kate!