KPMG Case Interview Practice: Free Case and Prep Resources
KPMG's careers pages list no practice cases; its official prep is Ace the Case, a US early-career program with a case analysis workshop, a presenting workshop and a business case simulation, and the case itself varies by country. Deloitte, by contrast, links a case interview tool from its US recruiting tips.KPMG (opens in a new tab), read ; Deloitte (opens in a new tab), read
Free, no signup: 2 worked cases with model answers. Free, no card: your first full practice case with an AI interviewer. Paid: Pro $49/month for every case.
Updated ·By Esteban Ronsin·Founder · former Deloitte and Accenture Strategy consultant
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Free KPMG interview prep resources
KPMG interview prep resources: what you get, whether it is free or paid, and the link
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KPMG US early careers: Ace the Case and interview preparation
KPMG US's own prep for early-career candidates: the Ace the Case program (case analysis and presenting workshops plus a business case simulation), a case competition, interview tips and sample behavioral questions
8 library cases matched to KPMG's case types, run out loud with an AI interviewer or step by step and scored on 7 skills; start with Packaging Plant Consolidation
Free + paid. The case list and a worked excerpt are public; a free account includes 1 full AI-graded case in voice or guided mode; Pro ($49/month) adds every case
Halvering Valley Hospital: operations case with answers Industry: Healthcare. Difficulty: hard.2 math questions.
Why are four times as many patients walking out of a community hospital's emergency department before being seen, and which fix should the hospital fund? 7 questions, 4 exhibits, a model answer for each
Free. The whole case and every model answer, no account; the practice button opens a live case like it
Quillfield Mechanical: M&A case with answers Industry: Industrial services. Difficulty: medium.2 math questions.
Should a commercial HVAC services company buy a regional competitor for $180 million, and what is the most it should pay? 6 questions, 4 exhibits, a model answer for each
Free. The whole case and every model answer, no account; the practice button opens a live case like it
Consulting fit and behavioral questions answered out loud, with follow-up probes and structured feedback
Free + paid. 1 behavioral or Learning Mode session with a free account; Behavioral Unlimited ($39/month, behavioral and PEI only) or any Pro plan adds more
Firm-style cases are practice cases written for Road to Offer or adapted from university consulting club casebooks, not the firm's own cases. Road to Offer is independent and not affiliated with KPMG.
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Claims Centre Consolidation: An insurer's claims centre consolidation
A service-line operating case of the kind KPMG Strategy's operating model and cost work describes: size the efficiency opportunity, then plan the change. KPMG sets cases per country and service line, so confirm yours. The full version is Packaging Plant Consolidation, a library case adapted from a university casebook. KPMG (opens in a new tab), read
1Step 1: Read the case
A regional insurer handles motor claims in three offices. Handling costs have crept up, and its CFO wants to know whether moving all handling into one shared claims centre is worth doing, and what you would check before committing.
2Step 2: Ask clarifying questions
Open a question to hear the interviewer's answer.
What is the CFO trying to achieve?
Interviewer: Lower handling cost without slowing claims or upsetting customers. There is no fixed saving target, but she wants the move to pay back within three years.
How big is the operation today?
Interviewer: About 60,000 claims a year, handled for 6 million a year in total across the three offices (no currency given), so 100 a claim.
Where does the cost sit?
Interviewer: Pay is 70 percent of the total. The rest is premises and systems for three sites.
What would the move cost?
Interviewer: A one-off 3 million for severance, relocation and system changes.
Any service constraints?
Interviewer: Claims are paid in ten days on average today and the regulator watches it. Customers and adjusters like local contact.
3Step 3: Structure your answer
Take two minutes. Lay out how you would decide whether to consolidate, then say your first hypothesis.
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Show what a strong structure covers
Plays the goal back: cut cost, protect speed and service, payback inside three years.
Savings: pay per claim (scale, standard process) and premises and systems for one site instead of three.
One-off costs: severance, relocation, system migration, plus a dip in output while teams move.
Service risk: days to pay, quality, loss of local knowledge and customer contact.
People and location: where the centre sits, who would relocate, who leaves and what that costs.
Options besides full consolidation: two centres, or keeping local contact for complex claims.
Ends with a hypothesis to test first, for example that most of the saving is premises and systems, not pay.
4Step 4: The interviewer's next question
The interviewer says one centre would cut premises and systems cost from 1.8 million to 1.0 million a year and pay per claim by 10 percent. What is the yearly saving, what is the payback, and what do you check next?
Show what a strong answer does
Pay is 70 percent of 6 million, 4.2 million, so 10 percent is 0.42 million. Add 0.8 million on premises and systems for about 1.2 million a year. Against a one-off 3 million that is a payback of roughly two and a half years, inside the CFO's three-year line but not by much. Check whether the 10 percent pay saving is real once experienced staff leave, what a slower days-to-pay would cost, and whether the one-off cost could overrun.
Flour costs rose 18% on a $4M flour bill, and prices went up 3% on $20M of sales. How much margin did Harbor lose?
Your answer
Flour went up by about $720K and the price rise brings in $600K, so the net hit is roughly $100K.
What worked
Split the change into a cost side and a price side before adding them up.
Could improve
$720K minus $600K is $120K, not $100K: state the exact net before rounding.
Model answer
Flour: 18% of $4M is $720K more cost. Price: 3% of $20M is $600K more revenue. Net margin loss: $120K.
Next time, say this
Cost is up $720K and price brings back $600K, so Harbor loses $120K of margin.
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Choose a case
Cases matched to KPMG's case types.
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Solve it out loud
An AI interviewer asks, listens and follows up.
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Get answer feedback
Feedback on every answer: what worked, what to fix.
What makes KPMG interviews different
Varies by country and service line.
KPMG Denmark's Advisory interviews run three rounds with a service-line case, while its Audit interviews have one round and no case: prepare for the process you were invited to. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Group case and presentation.
KPMG New Zealand's early careers assessment day includes an individual component, a group case study, a presentation and an interview with a leader. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
A case you may get in advance.
KPMG Denmark gives Advisory candidates a case for their service line that they can prepare beforehand or work on during the interview. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Written or interactive.
KPMG India says its case study round may be a written test or an interactive discussion, preceded by a group discussion. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Workshops, not a case bank.
KPMG US's own prep is the Ace the Case program: two workshops and a business case simulation with real-time feedback from KPMG professionals, not a library of cases. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Cases follow the service line.
KPMG Strategy describes deal support, growth, integrations and separations and digital transformation, with operating model and cost work in Ireland, so operating, cost and deal cases are sensible practice. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Each arrow opens the source: KPMG, read Nov 11, 2026.
Key facts from KPMG's own pages
Ace the Case.
KPMG US's early-career program: a case analysis workshop, a workshop on presenting cases and a business case simulation with real-time feedback. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Business leaders in the room.
KPMG US's two live video interviews are with business leaders, so prepare to explain your thinking to people who do the work. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Test of 45 minutes to an hour.
KPMG Australia's online cognitive abilities test and values and leadership alignment assessment together take about that long. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
A fit conversation, a round with a service-line case after a personality and cognitive assessment, and a final interview with the service line leader. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Each arrow opens the source: KPMG, read Nov 11, 2026.
KPMG's own interview preparation, country by country
KPMG's careers pages describe no practice case library, so this is the full list of its own prep and process pages we found, with the country each comes from. Each line is our summary of the page. Read on KPMG's site .
KPMG's own interview preparation, country by country: level, area and what each one is, linked to KPMG's page
Three parts: a workshop on analyzing cases, a workshop on presenting them and a simulation of a business case, with real-time feedback from KPMG professionals.
Teams solve complex business challenges using data and emerging technologies and compete against peers across the US; the winner goes to a global training program in Europe.
Research KPMG's business and career paths, rehearse answers on challenges, teamwork, initiative and goals, keep answers concise, pause rather than stumble and send a short thank-you.
A one-page guide: prepare questions, back examples with data, take your time before technical or case-based questions and ask if you do not understand one.
Online tests, an HR interview, an optional Assessment Day with case studies, a final interview with a team manager, reference checks and an outcome discussion.
A three-question video interview, an online abilities assessment and a half-day assessment day with a group case study; experienced hires are told if a test or case is needed.
Six steps from research to outcome, with a cognitive abilities test and a values and leadership alignment assessment of 45 minutes to an hour and an interview with your potential team.
Apply for one role per cycle, interview virtually or in person by office, answer behavioral questions in situation, task, action, result order and test your video setup.
What KPMG looks for, in its own words
Be yourself
KPMG Sweden says it wants you at your best but, more importantly, wants you to be yourself, and to tell it what drives you even if your experience is limited. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Pause rather than stumble
KPMG US advises keeping answers concise, staying positive and pausing to organize your thoughts instead of stumbling, and KPMG India's guide says silence works better than fumbling. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Take your time on case questions
KPMG India's guide says to listen carefully and align your thoughts before technical or case-based questions, and to ask if you do not understand one. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Back examples with data
KPMG India's guide asks you to support achievements with statistics so the interviewer can validate your thoroughness. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Structure and relevance
KPMG Canada recommends situation, task, action, result and says not to use a prepared example that does not relate to the question. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Each arrow opens the source: KPMG, read Nov 11, 2026.
The KPMG interview process, and what trains each step
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Online assessments (Australia)
KPMG Australia's graduate process has you take a cognitive abilities test and a values and leadership alignment assessment online, together about 45 minutes to an hour, before you are shortlisted to a team. Other countries differ: KPMG India says its proctored online test runs 60 to 90 minutes.
Video interview and abilities test (New Zealand early careers)
KPMG New Zealand early careers candidates answer three filmed questions after a practice one, and take an online abilities assessment of about twenty minutes covering verbal, numerical and abstract questions plus a short situational judgement section.
Two live video interviews (United States early careers)
KPMG US says early-career candidates have two live video interviews with business leaders. Its Acing the Interview page recommends rehearsing answers about your experience, keeping answers concise and pausing to organize your thoughts.
KPMG India lists a group discussion, which assesses oral communication, structured thinking and teamwork, then a case study round that tests subject expertise and business acumen and may be a written test or an interactive discussion.
Three Advisory interview rounds with a service-line case (Denmark)
KPMG Denmark's Advisory interviews run in three rounds: a fit conversation, a second round after a personality and cognitive assessment with a case for your service line that you can prepare beforehand or work on in the interview, and a final interview with the service line leader. Audit has one round and no case.
KPMG New Zealand's early careers assessment day is half a day at an office with an individual component, a group case study, a presentation and an interview with a KPMG leader. KPMG Sweden describes an optional half or full day with case studies, interviews and meetings with department managers.
KPMG Sweden's last step is an interview with a manager from the team, and says that if you have not done a case study in earlier stages you may be asked to do one there.
Missing from KPMG's pages: how long a live case runs, whether it is interviewer-led or candidate-led, how answers are scored, what a written or group case looks like, any official practice case or worked answer, and the UK graduate process.
11 KPMG-style interview questions
In our words, not KPMG's, grouped by the case types KPMG's strategy pages describe and the formats its country pages name, with what a strong answer does. KPMG gives no official questions to match, so work these, then the library cases linked under them.
Operating model and cost case
KPMG Ireland describes finding, sizing and ranking efficiency opportunities and planning the change; KPMG Denmark gives Advisory candidates a service-line case.
1A mid-sized bank's costs are well above its peers. The COO asks where to cut. How do you split the cost base before asking for data?
What a strong answer does: Splits costs by type (people, premises, technology, third parties) and by activity, compares each with a peer, and says which two lines you would check first and why.
2A retailer wants to merge two distribution centres into one. What could make the saving smaller than it looks?
What a strong answer does: Names the offsets: transport cost rises with longer routes, one-off closure and transfer cost, and service levels. A strong answer says the saving has to be net of those, then asks for the volumes to test it.
3Calls take twice as long at one contact centre as at another. Where do you look first?
What a strong answer does: Separates call mix, staffing and process, then checks whether the slower site simply gets harder calls before blaming its team.
KPMG UK describes deal support and supporting integrations and separations.
4Two regional insurers merge and the board expects fifty million a year in synergies. How do you test that number?
What a strong answer does: Splits it into cost and revenue synergies, sizes each from the overlap, adds the one-off cost and the time to deliver, and says which part is least certain.
5A group will carve out one division and sell it. Which costs stay behind with the parent?
What a strong answer does: Names stranded costs (shared services, head office, systems) and the new standalone costs the buyer needs, then says how you would size each.
KPMG India says its case round may be written; KPMG New Zealand's assessment day has a group case study and a presentation.
6You get a packet and forty minutes to write a recommendation. How do you spend the time?
What a strong answer does: Reads the question first, spends about half the time on the analysis that decides the answer, and leaves time to write the recommendation, its reasons and the risks.
7In a group case your team splits between two options. What do you do in the first five minutes?
What a strong answer does: Agrees the decision criteria first, then tests each option against them out loud; it builds on others' points and moves the group toward a call instead of arguing for one side.
8A chart shows cost per unit falling while total cost rises. What do you test first?
What a strong answer does: Checks volume: unit cost can fall while total cost rises if volume grew faster, so it asks for volume and mix before drawing a conclusion.
9Estimate how many claims a regional motor insurer handles in a year.
What a strong answer does: Starts from the number of insured vehicles in the region, applies a claim frequency and sanity-checks the result against the insurer's market share.
10Tell me about a time you changed your mind after seeing new data.
What a strong answer does: Keeps the situation short, names the data, the decision and a result in numbers, and shows you can drop a view when evidence changes.
KPMG Denmark's Advisory interviews include a service-line case and its Audit interviews do not. Check which process your invitation names before choosing what to drill. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Walking in cold to a case you were sent
KPMG Denmark says Advisory candidates can prepare their case beforehand or work on it during the interview. If it arrives early, prepare it. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Practicing only one-on-one
KPMG New Zealand's assessment day has a group case study and a presentation, and KPMG India a group discussion. Rehearse a group case and a short presentation as well. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Filling every silence
KPMG US advises pausing to organize your thoughts, and KPMG India's guide says silence works better than fumbling. Take ten seconds before you structure. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Stories that do not fit the question
KPMG Canada says not to use a prepared example that does not relate to the question. Keep several stories and choose the one that fits. Source: KPMG, read (opens in a new tab)
Each arrow opens the source: KPMG, read Nov 11, 2026.
A KPMG prep plan, day by day
The order follows KPMG's own pages; the timing is our suggestion.
Days 1 and 2
Find out which process you face
Read your invitation and your country's KPMG page: does it name a test, a group case, a written case or a service-line case? Read KPMG US's Ace the Case page if you are early career.
Write a short answer to "Why KPMG, and why this service line" and a story in situation, task, action, result order for each KPMG US sample topic, then say them out loud.
First find out which process you were invited to, because KPMG's own pages describe different ones by country and service line: a group case study and presentation on a New Zealand assessment day, a service-line case in Denmark's Advisory interviews, a written or interactive case round in India, and no case at all in Denmark's Audit interviews. Then use what KPMG publishes, its Ace the Case program for US early-career candidates, and practice operating, cost and deal cases out loud. On Road to Offer a free account includes 1 full AI-graded case, such as Packaging Plant Consolidation, a cost and footprint case; Halvering Valley Hospital (operations) and Quillfield Mechanical (an acquisition) are worked cases with a model answer for every question and need no account. Firm-style cases are practice cases written for Road to Offer or adapted from university consulting club casebooks, not the firm's own cases.
Where can I practice KPMG-style case interviews for free?
KPMG's own free option is the Ace the Case program in the US, a workshop and simulation offered to early-career candidates. For free cases you run yourself, Packaging Plant Consolidation on Road to Offer is an operating and cost case you can do out loud with an AI interviewer or step by step; your first full case is free with a free account, no card. Halvering Valley Hospital and Quillfield Mechanical are free to read with a model answer for every question, no account. They are general practice cases picked for the work KPMG Strategy describes (operating model, cost, deals), not KPMG's own cases.
What is KPMG's Ace the Case program?
A KPMG US early-career program that KPMG describes as a way to practice your skills before you use them. It has three parts: a workshop on analyzing cases, a workshop on presenting them and a simulation of a business case, with real-time feedback from KPMG professionals. It sits on KPMG US's early careers program page, next to a case competition called the KPMG Ideation Challenge.
Does KPMG publish official practice cases?
Not that its careers pages show. The pages we read describe programs and process steps, such as the Ace the Case simulation, but list no case library or answer key; Deloitte, by comparison, links a case interview tool from its US recruiting tips. Our KPMG practice cases article works eight cases written for the areas KPMG's strategy pages describe, and is labelled as ours, not KPMG's.
Does KPMG have an online test before the interviews?
In many countries. KPMG Australia has a cognitive abilities test and a values and leadership alignment assessment, together about 45 minutes to an hour. KPMG India has a proctored online test of 60 to 90 minutes, KPMG New Zealand an abilities assessment of about twenty minutes, and KPMG Denmark a personality and cognitive assessment before the second Advisory interview. KPMG US and KPMG Canada's pages we read name no test. Road to Offer has no KPMG test simulator; our KPMG assessment guide covers the routes and case math drills cover the numbers.
How many interview rounds does KPMG have?
It depends on the country and service line. In the US, early-career candidates have two live video rounds. KPMG Denmark's Advisory process has three rounds and its Audit process one. KPMG India lists a recruiter evaluation and a technical panel that may include several rounds, and KPMG Sweden adds an optional assessment day and a final interview with a team manager.
Is there a group case study in KPMG interviews?
In some countries. KPMG New Zealand's early careers assessment day includes a group case study and a presentation, KPMG India lists a group discussion, and KPMG Sweden's optional assessment day has case studies. KPMG US and KPMG Canada's pages we read mention none. Our group case guide covers how to contribute.
Is the KPMG case interview written or spoken?
It can be either. KPMG India says its case study round may be a written test or an interactive discussion, and KPMG Denmark's Advisory case can be prepared before the interview or worked on during it. KPMG New Zealand experienced hires are told if a case study is needed. Practice one written case answer and one spoken one.
Is the KPMG case interview interviewer-led or candidate-led?
KPMG's pages we read do not say. Its advice to pause and organize your thoughts before answering suits either format, and its interview formats vary from group exercises to one-on-one conversations. Practice opening with your own structure and also answering one directed question at a time with a number.
What behavioral questions does KPMG ask?
KPMG US's early careers page offers sample questions on handling challenges, teamwork, initiative and goal-setting, and KPMG Canada recommends answering in situation, task, action, result order and tying the example to the question asked. Prepare a specific "Why KPMG, and why this service line" answer and two or three stories with numbers; Road to Offer's fit practice asks the questions with follow-up probes, 1 session free with a free account, and our KPMG behavioral guide lists the values to show.
What does KPMG Strategy do, and what cases should I expect?
KPMG UK describes its strategy work as deal support, helping clients grow, supporting integrations and separations, and transforming for digital change; KPMG Ireland adds operating model and cost work. KPMG does not publish which of these a case will use, so practice operating and cost cases, deal and carve-out cases and growth cases, and confirm the format with your recruiter.
