Audit intern Review
by BDO
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at BDO
- 7. Would you recommend BDO to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BDO
Overview
Complete testing of samples picked by the team to see if the transactions that the company records are genuine and accurate.
Skills
Learned lots of Excel skills as a lot of the work is done on Excel.
Responsibilities
Yes, quite a lot of responsibility for the work you were carrying out. However, there was more than enough support available should you struggle to complete certain tasks.
Support & Guidance
Lots of support and guidance from people of all different hierarchical grades. The environment was very supportive.
Culture
As mentioned, very supportive. People are very friendly and as a lot of the work is done in teams, you work closely with your seniors and their seniors too.
Your Impressions
I did enjoy many aspects of the internship, including travelling to client sites and working from both Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. The methodology of the work is enjoyable, although audit in general can be rather repetitive and dull.
Yes
Be aware of what the values and wider purpose of BDO are as they are an important aspect of the selection process. This is certainly a good thing as all those with whom I worked, I could tell did subscribe to them and this meant that the environment and culture was very supportive and it was easy to build relationships with people who share those values.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Audit
Scotland
August 2022
