On your first day as an intern you're assigned a "buddy" who is an associate or senior and meant to be your first point of contact any time you have questions about anything. They're there to help you with any questions you have about the internship or what you're working on or just about the com...
Mentor
Accounting
Audit, Tax, and Advisory
BDO USA
Average is from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. Go to the client office and work with the audit teams on various work-papers that they need assistance with. Involves basic auditing work and training and miscellaneous office work. Much of it is learning and watching training videos and then learning as much a...
Internship
Day in the Life
Assurance
Accounting
Audit, Tax, and Advisory
BDO USA
The main quality recruiters look for in a candidate is personality. I strongly recommend to anyone interviewing for an intern position to be their most outgoing self possible. Recruiters are searching for students who will fit into their community, so you want to make sure you have an engaging co...
Be open-minded. Do not go into the conference with expectations or stereotypes in mind of the firm you are visiting
Quality > Quantity of conversations. Don't focus too much on talking to all of the partners or managers; one or two solid conversations will be much more impactful not only for y...
Accounting
Skillset
Audit, Tax, and Advisory
BDO USA
During busy season, there are plenty of opportunities to learn. Normally, you would spend your day at the client, which is really cool because you get a change of scenery quite often. An audit intern will be given tasks such as testing, where you will look through files to confirm they are accura...
Internship
Auditing
Day in the Life
Accounting
Audit, Tax, and Advisory
BDO USA
I truly believe that one of the most important qualities that should be highlighted when interviewing for an internship at BDO or any other accounting firm is any sport/team experiences. For example, I was a captain of my lacrosse team as a junior and senior in high school. I played competitive s...
Internship
Interview
Accounting
Audit, Tax, and Advisory
BDO USA
In my case, BDO flew out all Interns in the Southeast to Fort Lauderdale. The training was three days long in the BDO office there. We became acquainted with the software used on audits. The training was mainly focused on knowledge of software, BDO best practices, and took a cursory look at Audi...
Internship
Training
Auditing
Accounting
Audit, Tax, and Advisory
BDO USA
During my internship in tax at BDO, I was treated as Tax Associate. BDO provided a broad range of generic online training with updated topic in tax, and individual or group training were also provided during daily work. The main job duties covered preparing work paper and tax return for different...
Internship
Day in the Life
Accounting
Audit, Tax, and Advisory
Tax Associate
BDO USA