XYZ Coporation is a mid-sized public accounting firm. The company has offices throughout the world, and my internship took place in the Philadelphia office.<\/p>\n
I worked with the IT Auditing team to assess the state of our clients IT systems. I worked mainly on testing access configuration and security administration. I also helped to create different reports and other official documentation.<\/p>\n
One of the highlights of my internship was the Client Competition. This was a nation wide competition among all XYZ Corporation interns. There was a local competition for the Philadelphia office, and the winner moved on to a regional competition, and potentially nationals after that. All of the interns were broken down into teams and assigned a client account. Our task was to work with the current account team to develop an idea about how to grow our business with the client. This was a great way to learn more about how companies like ours earn revenue, and also exciting to create a plan for a real business opportunity which will be pursued by the firm in the future. I am proud to say that my team won both the Philadelphia competition and our Atlantic Coast regional competition, placing us in the Top 4 in the nation.<\/p>\n
I learned many new skills in this internship that relate to my Accounting major and my MIS minor. I feel much more confident in my knowledge of many Enterprise IT Systems, since the clients we were testing used a variety of software. I am also more comfortable with the regulatory environment in IT, since we did work with SOX reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","points","type-points","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.procommunityplatform.com\/tsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.procommunityplatform.com\/tsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.procommunityplatform.com\/tsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/points"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.procommunityplatform.com\/tsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.procommunityplatform.com\/tsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/education.procommunityplatform.com\/tsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.procommunityplatform.com\/tsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}