Tax Accountants and Preparers

The two main ways to go in accounting are Public and Private (Corporate). Public accounting includes jobs like Tax, Audit, Consulting. At a Public accounting firm you will provide accounting services to external clients, whereas on the private side you are working on internal accounting tasks for...

The most important skill you can have as an intern is to be willing and eager to learn. There are going to be a lot of things you don't know and the company will expect that, but being willing and eager to learn throughout the internship will make the difference. Almost everything you do you'll ...

The entire internship is training for the next internship. There is a one week long intern summit at Deloitte University and then a few weeks of on the job training.

It's a cross between a leadership program and a summer internship. You spend 4 weeks in tax and 4 weeks in advisory getting to know the practice and getting hands on experience. When it comes time to select what to do the following summer internship in which would lead to the full time job, you h...

This question depends on the department you are assigned to, because each department has different tasks and ways of doing things. But I think Deloitte does a great job of letting the interns take ownership in client work.

I think it's a great place to start your career. As a student, you may not know what field or company you want to work for but that's why there are internships. I had various internships before I interned with Deloitte, but I chose to sign full time with Deloitte because of their culture and the ...

All the tax interns attended a weeklong training at the start of the spring semester internship in Washington, DC. Here, we met the other interns from the US and familiarized ourselves with the firm, technology and other resources we would be using during our internship. We also had social even...

What I liked the most about being a tax intern was finally being able to take the concepts I had been learning in school and applying them to actual work. The connections are not always obvious. However, when I was able to make even partial sense of a workpaper based on my knowledge I felt very...

Be open about working with various engagements from your team. They want to see that you are willing to help out however you can. In addition, make an effort to meet the team. This will make it easier for them to approach you with meaningful work. And finally, have fun. Your summer is going to fl...

PwC has three service lines: assurance, tax, and advisory. You will be in the tax line of service, and will help clients with their tax reporting needs. Sometimes, you will work with the assurance team for tax compliance projects.

To really succeed during this internship, you need to be willing to learn a lot. Associates are going to be your best friends during each project. They know everything that you need to know to complete a given task. When they show you how to do things, make sure you take notes so that you won't h...

From my experience, multiple core tax interns, even at the same office location, may have a slightly different experience depending on the team/squad they are placed into, consisting of a Partner, Manager, and Associates. This is primarily because different teams have different clients that have ...

As an intern in any of the tax groups, you take on any responsibilities that are given to you by an associate. Common tasks involve analyzing accounts and documents to pull numbers for use by the team, and updating documents in the working papers, along with a variety of other tasks. You are ad...

Work/Life Balance is great. I would typically work 40-50 hours a week. They are very flexible with hours. You can come in to the office any time between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. as long as you work at least 8 hours every day. I usually arrived at 8:30 a.m.

There is definitely a lot of flexibility in the schedule you want here at Honda. I was first scheduled to work 7:30 am- 4:00 pm but I wanted to get out earlier and my mentor worked earlier hours so I switched to 6:30 am- 3:00 pm. Daily activities really depend the time. Even just the couple of mo...

During my internship in tax at BDO, I was treated as Tax Associate. BDO provided a broad range of generic online training with updated topic in tax, and individual or group training were also provided during daily work. The main job duties covered preparing work paper and tax return for different...

I really liked that working as an intern felt much like being part of their regular staff. Training begins by attending a large conference with other interns and associates outside of WA state for about a week. Once you start working on returns, the difference between what new associates do and i...

My training was a week long, about a day and a half or so of basic HR/office environment/team building type things, and then 3ish days of SALT-specific training (tax software, research websites, etc). They expect you to know nothing coming in, but do take really good notes about what you learn.

Valuations is a very high level skills position. I only had a financial background but would strongly recommend someone be an Accy/Fin major or take a focus on more accounting coursework to help understand key concepts. The team at GT is extremely experienced in Excel, so it’s ideal to have a ski...

Grant Thornton is focused on creating growth and good culture. Valuation Services is a unique area within an accounting firm because it focuses on large funds managed and maintained by associates. This area brings in the majority of money for Advisory and the team itself is very driven to work ha...

In Valuation Services and at GT in general, you get what you ask for. The team itself is small and you’ll become familiar with management but it falls on the intern’s shoulders to make the connections and network around the office. You’re assigned a buddy which is a first or second year associate...

When I worked as an intern I was compensated $28/hr and expected to work 40 hours a week. Overtime was paid time and a half and there were a few opportunities to work overtime. Overall, you’ll be making more than enough to enjoy your time downtown and working in this group.

First of all, the Start Internship is geared towards those students who identify as a underrepresented group in accounting including African-American, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Latino. Start Interns main goal is to get enough exposure and build enough connections to be able to select...

Being a Start Intern was one of the most advantageous experiences I could have the opportunity to be apart of. I was able to get early insight into both service lines that most students do not get to spend 8 weeks doing. Secondly, the training for Start I had in Atlanta was one of the best experi...

I am assuming this question is asked under the assumption that you will be doing some sort of technical accounting work. This is actually not the case during your Start internship. You are assigned to an Internal Firm Services (IFS) team and will complete team projects that are given by your team...

An intern begins the day at around 9 am, for the first week you will meet as a group with your fellow START interns in the office for training. As weeks programs you will start to shadow professionals around the office and off-site. When you are not shadowing you work with your IFS (Internal Firm...

Solely based on word of mouth among the interns, the hourly wage for a Grant Thornton intern varies depending on the amount of college credits earned. If I recall correctly, the differences were not too drastic and stayed within a $2.00 range. I am unsure if I am able to disclose my exact compens...

I was never turned away when I asked for help. While every team is different, people from my team would come by every now and then to see if I needed help with anything after assigning me to new work, even if I hadn’t asked yet. They’ve gladly answered questions from “What are New York’s apportio...

The role of a tax intern, in the nutshell, is to help the full-time team with client work. My team was in the middle of busy season when I joined and I was fortunate to have worked on several different entities on an associate level. The team would often include me in discussions to ask for my in...

Be willing to help seniors, managers, or partners n anything they may need. If you're available, let others know you have free time to help out. Be willing to learn and just be yourself. Meet everyone and anyone you can! It's important to network and get to know the people you are going to work w...

GT was a great place for a tax intern role to see what a career in public accounting would be like in tax. There was a variety of work that allowed me to see all aspects of tax from compliance to consulting. That said it was a great place to start a career as you were not pigeonholed into one job.

I'd say the main qualities or experience for an intern role at the Firm would be open minded, having a good attitude and coming with a sense to learn and trying your best. At Grant Thornton we look for those who fit within our culture and can work in team situations with time management skills.

I unfortunately didn’t receive a full-time offer due to their lack of business needs in tax. But the experience was very good and ultimately led to me another job. I feel that it’s important to recognize that it’s all about efficiency. Building good habits to promote efficiency and staying org...

As an intern at GrantThornton the work life balance is great. The internship spans 8 weeks, no more than 40 hours per week. The week of July 4th the interns are off all week. Also, there are several events throughout the summer internship that the firm has for interns to get to know each other be...

In order to be successful as a tax intern at GrantThornton you will need to be organized, communicate well, and have an eagerness to learn more about the accounting profession. On the technical side a successful intern should have a good understanding of excel, how to research tax issues, and how...

So for my internship, we spent about three days at the very start of the internship going through a general tax training program, inclusive of all the tax lines of service (CORE, PCS, SALT, etc.). They actually flew us all out to the DC area for the training! This training touched on PwC's valu...

I think the most important thing to realize is that your interview is simply a conversation in which the firm is trying to determine whether you would be a good fit in their company, while at the same time you are determining if the firm is the right fit for you. So relax, be yourself, and ask v...

I don't think interns need any particular technical skills, but rather a positive set of values and characteristics to apply in any given situation. It is imperative to have a positive and ambitious mindset to always grow and learn more about the firm, industry, colleagues, clients, and your prof...

I think Deloitte does a good job of maintaining a good work-life balance. It also depends on how far you live from the office to consider for time outside of work. However, Deloitte does many fun things for the interns, like happy hours, Cedar Point trip, lunches, community service day, Indians g...

You will have a decent amount of ownership over your work. Most things that you do, you have to put your initials down so people know that you did it. Your work will almost always be reviewed by someone else, so don't worry about making mistakes. Don't get me wrong, make sure that you try to do t...

As a Discovery Intern, I liked the opportunity to rotate between two departments, which were Audit and Tax for me. It's a good opportunity to compare which department you'd like to work in the future. I liked that Deloitte pays you to travel to a different city for training, which was Dallas for ...

Initiative, inquisitive, and open-mindedness. Taking initiative was the best thing I could have done to make my time as an intern stand out. Be diligent in your work and ask questions to understand why you are doing the tasks you are assigned—it helps you to understand the big picture of the busi...

The mission of Deloitte is "To help clients and people excel. The DTT member firms' size, strength and resources will help carry out its' mission now and in the future. DTT is driven to be recognized as the best professional services firm in the world.” In GES, you work with Deloitte’s global cli...

I'd pick out your 2-3 best experiences from your resume and emphasize them. Mine was my study abroad and part time job, definitely don't just go through your whole resume, they're trying to talk to you. My main interview was 30 minutes and it ended up being a conversation with a partner and we ta...

Daily schedule: arrive (between 8:00-8:30), check calendar & email, start working on some assignments that you have. You might be asked to sit in on a meeting. 11:30 is always lunch time- they’re early eaters. When you come back, you start working again. You might have another meeting with someo...

Tax Interns do a lot of networking with people in the office. It’s really a time to see how well you work with people, your attitude and motivation. You do some preliminary trainings, attend Deloitte University for a few days and you get to work on actual projects. It is very Excel and Adobe heav...

To succeed as an International Tax Intern, you should have strong reading and writing skills. A large part of the internship is research, which involves reading the Code and preparing memos. It is also helpful to brush up on your Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills before you start. Some compli...

What motivated me to become a Tax intern is the type of work I do. Before I talk about that though, let me clarify something for the young college students going into recruitment, SLPs, internships, etc. People say that if you are social or outgoing you choose Audit because Tax is where the int...

After two weeks of training in Ohio, student tax analysts work from home. The hours are generally 9am-3pm. Also, there is a weekly skype call to check in on weekly progress. Students work on different projects to prevent repetition and boredom. Students are assigned to an individual supervisor th...

A Tax Associate at RSM prepares individual and business tax returns. An associate will receive workpapers from the client and input his/her info into a tax program. Once the associate feels like they have finished, they go through a checklist the company provides to make sure they have completed ...

Tax processing is essentially filing and preparing tax documents. To prove that you have the skills to do this, I would highlight organizational skills, computer savviness and ability to follow specific instructions/memorize instructions. Each state as well as type of business has a specific way ...

Be sure to study up on your excel, word and outlook calendars. Time management is key at DDA since you will often have multiple tasks that need to be completed by various deadlines. And being able to switch tracks from capital assets to financial statements to reports, etc is a big bonus.

It depends. If you work at a big client, probably you will stay there for 8-9 months. During the time, you will work about 40-50 hours a week. Even during the busy season, you don’t work over 80 hours a week. However, if you work for a smaller client, you should work little longer than that. Work...

As an auditor, you have almost 100% ownership over your work. Usually a hierarchy at a team is staff > senior > manager > director/partner. Even though you are a staff of a team, you will be asked to have ownership. Especially, you will be expected to understand the purpose of each procedure you ...

The biggest advantage of an auditor/consultant is huge responsibility you can take. Also, you can see process and procedures in a company and how things work. The only thing I didn’t like from the consulting work was that I couldn’t fully involve in the implementation of my solution. Long working...

Deloitte has invested so much in their people that they created Deloitte University down in TX. You will go there when you are first hired, and each time you're promoted to learn what is expected at each particular level. Most learning happens 'on the job' but these training courses are also extr...

Honestly, very little. Staff to senior should expect to be putting in some long hours in busy season. The work is constant, and sometimes there is not much of an off season. However, this is totally up to you. If you can learn to say no and set boundaries as well as structure your own life, you s...

I enjoyed being constantly challenged. Tax law is constantly changing and being interpreted differently. The constant evolution and integration of the multiple moving parts of taxes made the work constantly engaging. What I disliked is the compliance aspect. To consult your clients on their tax i...

Depending on how many years experience, you can negotiate on the salary and vacation time. I would say that for this role they should be looking at the high 60's up through the high 70's.

There are a few necessary requirements for the tax department and they are having prior experience preparing federal corporate returns and preparing corporate state returns. Chubb files returns in all 50 states so while it isn't necessary to be an expert in each state, it does help to know the b...

A Tax Associate at RSM prepares individual and business tax returns. An associate will receive workpapers from the client and input his/her info into a tax program. Once the associate feels like they have finished, they go through a checklist the company provides to make sure they have completed ...

Tax processing is essentially filing and preparing tax documents. To prove that you have the skills to do this, I would highlight organizational skills, computer savviness and ability to follow specific instructions/memorize instructions. Each state as well as type of business has a specific way ...