Honestly, it's so rewarding to see someone use what you've made in weird ways. It's more rewarding when they don't break it though, and you somehow manage to cater for every weird usecase. It's problem-solving at its core.
Auditing is flexible enough that you can also help out your colleagues working on the same job if needed or look ahead to what jobs are coming up and plan for these. Otherwise, I continue on from where I left off the day before.
Mahin Chaudhary graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and Business Management from the University of Queensland in 2019 and is now a Senior Accountant, Restructuring at McGrathNicol.
In the Tax team we have people who all have very different degrees and backgrounds! Some people have accounting degrees where many others in the team have science degrees or law degrees.
An internship is the first entry point to the corporate world to get an idea of everything about the corporate working style and a great opportunity to check if the particular domain is your cup of tea or not.
Internships are a great opportunity to not only gain some work experience, but also get a sense of whether you will go down that career path. You never know until you try!
Marco Micalizzi graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Finance & Accounting) from the University of Technology Sydney in 2020 and is now an Accountant at McGrathNicol.