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The Leavitt Group Project Details
As an intern for the Leavitt Group there are many responsibilities that must be met each day in the office. Accountants are counting on each team member to do their part and contribute to a helpful, hardworking work environment. In my time with the Leavitt Group I was able to work closely with accountants to complete projects and help other agencies to balance their bank accounts. The first thing that I had to do when I got to the office was go through training. I did not know exactly what I was going to be required of me but after being trained as to what my responsibilities were, I knew that I would get the hang of it. Each month the interns are assigned different responsibilities.
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I was assigned to work with 5 different agencies, reviewing their bank statements and balancing them with the statements from the bank. Each of the agencies had 2-4 different accounts. On the first of each month these statements would be sent to us (interns) for reviewing and we would have 15 days to review them and email back the issues that we found in each account. After we did this for each account, the accountant would email us back within a few days and we then had until the 25th of the month to post the reconciliation of the 2 accounts to the Leavitt Group accounting information system.
This may seem like a lot of work! But, with the help of others and many failed attempts each account was able to be reconciled before the end of each month. Along with this month-long project, we were required to deliver the mail, help accountants in running audits for these agencies, and even doing some in-depth research on the purchases of these agencies to make sure that they were not committing fraud.
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Our job was to assist the accountants in anything that they needed help with because their jobs involve them completing multiple projects for multiple different agencies each month. In doing so, I was able to understand the pressures that an accountant has to meet their deadlines, the hours they work each day, and exactly what it takes to become a successful accountant.
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