Planning and aiding auditors in their daily workload
I am working in the Audit Privately Owned Business team here in the Manchester office My role involves collaborating closely with Auditors to work on a large client with 16 different entities On a day to day basis I have a range of tasks set by my man
Very well structured this is an extremely good opportunity to meet senior employees in the consultancy and audit sector Forvis Mazars is a growing accountancy firm and I am very grateful to get the opportunity to do an internship over here
Many accounting tasks such as looking at TB and FS Creating reconciliations lead sheets query logs
I audit the annual accounts of companies in the financial services sector This involves checking the financial statements for material misstatements to gain reasonable assurance that they are true and fair Day to day this involves working in a team and
I am involved in ensuring the reliability and completeness of financial statements produced by local government and NHS bodies As a junior I am responsible for tasks such as sample testing to ensure areas like expenditure are not overunderstated and c
Day to day activities are monotonous and involve heavy amounts of copying and pasting with lack of variety These tasks become repetitive and are not a true reflection of a challenging stimulating workload Occasional stock takes and client site visits s
We audit clients in the public sector such as NHS bodies and councils to analyse their finances and check for material misstatements in order to give an opinion on their financial reporting Day to day we do testing Working papers on areas like expenses
On a daytoday I was responsible for auditing different parts of a companys financial statements with the support of the seniors and managers on the team I was also involved in completing stocktakes and worked onsite at the clients place of work for
At Mazars in the financial services banking audit team my role as a new joiner involved conducting basic audit processes Daily tasks included verifying financial records ensuring compliance with regulations and assisting senior auditors in examining
My role in audit involves reviewing and testing financial data related to my clients financial statements and ensuring the data is accurate and as free from misstatements as possible This means giving the management and stakeholders assurance over the a
Auditing various financial statement areas Creating working papers and communicating with clients Additionally completing certificate level of ACA accreditation and other technical training provided by the employer
A normal day on an audit would normally include having a morning team meeting to discuss the status of the audit and you would talk about what tasks you will focus on and if you had any capacity for tasks Most of the day is then spent doing audit procedu
Flexible work from home and the office Working with people across different offices via teams and also within the office based team to provide advisory tax support to clients and tax return preparation which is great for building knowledge of tax
Completion of mainly excel based audit workpapers in line with the Mazars audit methodology across a wide variety of financial statement areas on the income statement and balance sheet Focus on high quality audit testing to support audit opinions Review
It was good but not excellent the insight scheme was designed to give us additional information on how to break into the legal sector I enjoyed being advised on how to make my future applications stand out but I got the impression that other people on
Depending on the work I039ve been assigned for the particular audit I am working on I would normally do minute reviews agree cashflow statements with the trial balances and check annual report of the client for consistency with their financial statem
Helping out on certain projects that the team may have or working on our own individual projects which were set at the start of the internship and span across the whole 2 months
On a day to day basis I would assist with doing research for MampA decks as well as researching companies I also received good insight from other team leaders in what their job involved including the DD team There was also a number of good webinars al
The management and directors provided me with many projects and learning opportunities to better my prospects in the profession I am given the opportunity to partake in an assessment centre to be fasttracked for a graduate scheme I have been given the
