A summer internship is a great way
to ease into the accounting business. Engagement teams have had time to cool
down from the busy season and the PwC employees are eager to meet their
interns. There is still plenty of work to do but there are also a lot of great
team building activities and events. These can be community service projects at
Harvesters or the Kansas City Zoo, Promotion Day, and happy hour at some of the
nearby restaurants.
If one is looking for an internship
at any public accounting firm, it is important to plan ahead. Even as a
sophomore or junior it is not too early to start looking into programs like
PwC’s Elevate. This is a two-day interview process which I completed the summer
before my senior year, a year before the start of my internship. It really
helped me learn about PwC, their people and the atmosphere of a public
accounting firm. Several of the people at PwC who I met at Elevate are now some
of my colleagues and it really helps to have those established relationships.
An internship at PwC is an
experience of a lifetime. It will provide any willing person with the
opportunity to learn from some of the best accountants in the business. One of
the unique parts of working at PwC is the people; they are excited to answer
all my questions. Selecting samples, performing tests and documenting work is
much different when on a client site, as compared to sitting in an audit class.
In an audit class it is common to learn about all the tests, such as
statistical tests or non-statistical, but at PwC you get to apply the knowledge
which you have learned in school. The biggest difference is the interaction
with the client, such as asking for supporting documentation or completing a
walkthrough of a control. As an auditor, it is not uncommon to spend most of
your time in the office of several different clients. It is important to have a
positive attitude which can help in the timeliness of obtaining documents and
evidence as quick as possible. - anonymous student
No comments:
Post a Comment