Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • - Completing Corporate Tax Finalisations in Alphatax - Drafting emails to clients - Drafting reports - Corporate Tax Administration (billing, iXBRL tagging, compliance letters, cover emails)


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • - Communication skills - Ability to learn new software quickly (Alphatax) - Determining tax allowable and disallowable items - Technical tax knowledge


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Lots of responsibility in terms of changing and updating tax computations for clients, they trust your judgement and they make you feel like a valuable member of the team.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I felt I could ask any question, no matter how trivial. We had specific trainings days which were invaluable as we worked through examples which were applicable to the work we were assigned.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Very welcoming and friendly. I felt that collaboration was a key value and this was something I really valued. I liked how we had anchor days when everyone came into the office.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I thoroughly enjoyed my placement as I was given lots of responsibility but also the support and guidance to meet the expectations set for me.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at BDO
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BDO
  • Think about what differentiates BDO from its competitors and why you want to apply for BDO in specifically.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Audit

South East

August 2022


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