Undergraduate Audit Placement Review

Working in a team to complete an audit for a particular client. This would involve testing of areas of the financial statements. Requesting listings from clients and selecting samples from here to test supporting evidence. Meetings with clients, and team to discuss progress. Travel to client site for in-person discussion with client for audit queries.

Learnt new excel skills. Developed communication, organisation, team-working skills. Developed accounting knowledge, and presentation skills.

I was given a lot of responsibility on placement. My abilities were constantly pushed however I was supporter were required when given new tasks/larger work loads. I was given responsibility to have one-on-one meetings with the client when necessary.

I was given plenty of support and guidance, but I had to ensure I spoke up when I needed it. However, I was encouraged to do this and also communicated often with my team(s) about the status of my work so they could offer support if they thought necessary.

Very sociable atmosphere, in general found everyone I worker with positive and easy to speak to. More a culture of work hard, play hard - big focus on team effort to get things over the line.

I really enjoyed my placement. It was very challenging so there were times I struggled, but I enjoyed being pushed and have lots of great memories with friends made on placement

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Research lines of service/exam requirements to understand what route you’d really like to take. Don’t worry too much about prior experience/degree background as PwC is very open to a range of backgrounds and degree doesn’t have to be directly applicable to the job. Plenty of support is provided for this.