Interns & Recent Grads

The most important part of your internship is the work you will be doing while serving our clients. Our “real work, right now” culture ensures you receive the best hands-on training during your internship – working with a variety of real clients on engagements from start to finish.

Accounting interns are temporary associates, pursuing a Bachelors of Science, PPA or Masters degree in Accounting and CPA eligibility at an accredited university, with an interest in accounting, financial statement preparation, auditing, tax preparation and/or tax law. Work is performed under close supervision. Responsibilities may increase with demonstrated skill.

During your internship, you will work as part of a client service team in one of our service functions: Audit or Tax. The practical experiences facilitate your education by providing you with insights into the economics of the practice and allowing you to gain a broader perspective.

After a two-week training period, you will be assigned to one or more clients alongside our team members.

You’ve gone to a great school – now it’s time for a hands-on experience! We’re excited for you to join us, come with a great attitude and soak it all up. The PKF Texas training ensures you are equipped with the processes, procedures and tools to be successful in a fun and interactive learning environment.

Associates in both departments may help train new staff, assist with campus recruiting and participate in firm/departmental meetings, task forces and continuing professional education.

Audit interns will be out in the field with the associates and seniors leading the engagement. Tax interns will be assigned to project teams where they will complete various types of tax returns. Below is a sample of the types of tasks interns and new associates may be assigned during the course of an engagement.

Audit Tasks:

• Learn and apply PKF Texas’ audit approach for a variety of testing areas, such as legal expenses, cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and property and equipment
• Prepare electronic audit work using a variety of applications, including Microsoft Office and innovative audit software
• Communicate directly with the client to request audit evidence, to make investigative inquiries, and to verify understanding of the client’s business and accounting procedures
• Responsible for sending and tracking of confirmations used to verify account balances, such as cash, accounts receivable, and notes payable.
• Perform tests of internal controls
• Test legal expenses, including identifying instances of potential litigation, bank statement reconciliations, accounts receivable aging schedules, accounts payable, including evaluation of vendor invoices
• Evaluate reasonableness of fixed asset lives and depreciation computations
• Observe inventory test counts (associates)

Tax Tasks:

• Learn about PKF Texas’ process to complete a return
• Prepare individual, corporate, partnership, estate, trust and gift returns
• Prepare multistate and city tax returns
• Assist with consulting projects
• Assist in research for IRS examinations and gather detail to support client position
• Draft responses to federal, state and city notices from taxing authorities
• Research tax issues
• Prepare tax projections under different income and deduction variables

It starts with being open to learning. As a new intern and associate, you’re never alone. Through one-on-one guidance from our team, interns and new associates glean years of experience from our PKF Texas leaders.

Building a career requires continually reinvesting in yourself. Our in-house curriculum, PKF University, offers web-based or instruction-led seminars to develop your potential and sharpen your skills. And if we can’t bring the training to you, we’ll send you to the training. Whether it’s specialized CPE training based on your discipline, or leadership events through our alliance groups, PKF Texas invests the resources and tools necessary to help our people succeed and grow.