The Experience Of Interning At Ey - 962 Words

I had the opportunity of interning at EY from June 3rd to August 3rd, 2015. I interned in the Baltimore office with 26 other interns as a part of the Assurance service line. Over the course of the internship, I had the opportunity to attend regional training for interns in Washington D.C. in addition to a service line training, lasting a total of 5 days combined. We received general information in training about the company, their mission, organizational structure, and employee expectations. The training that covered the service line was very extensive and structured. We learned about the expectations for auditors during an engagement as well as how to work some of the EY programs used during an audit so that we would have a better idea of how to complete assigned tasks while working on the clients we were scheduled to work with. Additionally, they also answered important questions about how to interact with a client and explained the importance of independence. The first client I wa s assigned to was a healthcare provider with about 4 hospitals as subsidiaries. The client was at its year-end and the audit team was at the beginning stages of the audit. Being on this client for approximately 3 weeks, I was able to learn a lot on this engagement. One of the main responsibilities that I had for the first week was rollforward of documentation in addition to summarizing meeting minutes. I learned that rollforward procedures with certain documentation saves the auditors a lot of