Interesting Work Experience

My Two months experience at Deloitte and Touche 

My work experience was at Deloitte and Touche in Dubai that started when my friend told me to enter this company as she experienced it. After that, the college provided us with the list of companies that needs interns to train them. Deloitte and Touche was one of those companies that were included in the list and needs two students. My friend and I chose it as a first choice and two other companies in case if something happen. After the first semester, they called us to visit them on Tuesday, Dec 30th 2008 at 12:30 pm to do the psychometric test that contains of three tests. We have to achieve all of them in order to accept us, so we completed the three tests with a success as they will accept us by replying their email and we started the internship on Sunday, 2^nd Apr 2009.

Deloitte & Touche didn’t prepare a work plan for the eight weeks of my experience. As in the audit department, it is very difficult to prepare a work plan because the clients and seniors will vary. Furthermore, they prepared a general plan, so in the first week interns stayed in the accounting department and the remaining seven weeks we experienced in audit department. The company provided us with a first day plan, a whole bag of helpful resources and Ahlan booklet that was useful to know company’s policies and procedures. We started our day with an induction that the company provided which contains a presentation about the firm, a tour around the company, fingerprint access and laptop collection. Moreover, the company offered the new joiners (both audit interns and permanent employee) with a buddy that will help us if we have questions or we need assistant. At 1:00 pm, all new joiners went to take lunch at Chilies with two auditors Faizal and Tina in which Tina was one of the buddy’s.

Recurring skills that improved during the work experience

o   Reading skills as I read a lot of audit reports.
o   Communication skills as I have o ask the client for the documents that I need.
o   Checking skill as I checked the calculation, grammar and punctuation mistakes many audit reports and bank budgets.
o   Typing skills as all of our work was using the laptop.
o   Microsoft Office Excel skills as it were the main software that we used to do our work at Deloitte.
o   Accounting skills as our job is to refer to all accounting processes.
o   Time management skills as we leave early and arrived earlier than the auditors.
o   Problem solving skills as we faced a lot of problems but we solved by neither asking auditors nor writing comments in the weekly log.

New skills that we gained during the work experience

o   Audit Procedures as I described in the above section.
o The steps that the auditors look for.
o    How to reference the documents in the Audit File that contains of 8 sections.
o   Preparing Bank facilities document in Microsoft Office Word.
o   Using AD2SM software.
o   CUSDOG method: Debit accounts we test them as overstatement and we use general ledger and trial balance to select our samples. Credit accounts we test them as understatement and we test invoices and purchase orders.
o   Vouchering and documentation skills.

It was a very interesting experience and in my opinion, the experience that I have gained from Deloitte & Touche can’t summarize in a report or presentation. It is something I will remember all the time with a smile in my face. This experience assisted me in learning myself more, therefore, everyone was telling me that I am shy, but now I see my self as responsible person, dependable, confident and finishing tasks on time.