At the beginning of this journey I thought majoring in accounting would be the perfect major for me. Therefore interning at Multi-Color Corporation, I thought would be the perfect opportunity. Multi-Color is a label company that prints over 10 million labels a day. There are over 45 different plants all around the world and the Scottsburg plant usually produces the most sales. The accounting department basically keeps the company running. Without the accounting department bills would not get paid or bills would not get mailed out for the customers to pay. At Multi-Color there are four main accountants: Accounts Payable (Melissa Campbell), Accounts Receivable (Tiffany Lowe), Cost Accountant (Jeremy Hafer), and Accounting Coordinator (Shari Schmidt). Some of the tasks we decided would be good for me to do at the beginning of my internship would be to learn the AP Process, AR Process, Job Cost Process, and lastly learn how to close jobs. Over my 13 weeks of being at my internship, I learned a lot of useful information that will tremendously help when I start taking accounting classes in college. Some of the everyday tasks I would do at my internship was: coding freight, entering PO’s into the computer system, complete/close jobs, and learning how to bill people. Over fall break I had the opportunity to actually work a whole week at my internship. I worked for the accounts payable person and would basically do everything they would do on a normal day. This was a very unique opportunity. I was able to see how my life would be everyday if I was an accountant. On a daily basis I was told how much of a help I was. By doing some of the work the accounts would be doing is a big help to them. Some of the things I learned at school that was used at my internship.
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For example, the things I learned in my accounting class were very useful. Learning about debits and credits really helped going into my internship. Throughout my accounting class, one thing my teacher always said was, “accounting in a classroom is different than accounting in a business”. After having my internship I really see that now. Today since we have so much technology the computers do a lot of the accounting side of things. For instance, a company no longer has to fill out a journal, the computer fills out everything for them. Another class that really helped me throughout my internship was preparing for college and careers was a big advantage. While I may not have used many of the skills for actual accounting it helped to know how I should act in a workplace setting. One thing that I had a little trouble getting use to was the technology at Multi-Color. At Multi-Color they use PC’s while at the high school we use Macs. This was something I was not really used to. However, it was pretty easy to adapt since Scottsburg has made me knowledgeable in technology. Since the high school uses Macs I was also not familiar with Excel. The one thing my internship advised me to do before I get a job in accounting is to take some Excel courses. Excel is something I will use everyday in the accounting world, and I quickly learned that out. I was on Excel pretty much every other day at my internship, which made it kind of challenging in the beginning, since
For example, the things I learned in my accounting class were very useful. Learning about debits and credits really helped going into my internship. Throughout my accounting class, one thing my teacher always said was, “accounting in a classroom is different than accounting in a business”. After having my internship I really see that now. Today since we have so much technology the computers do a lot of the accounting side of things. For instance, a company no longer has to fill out a journal, the computer fills out everything for them. Another class that really helped me throughout my internship was preparing for college and careers was a big advantage. While I may not have used many of the skills for actual accounting it helped to know how I should act in a workplace setting. One thing that I had a little trouble getting use to was the technology at Multi-Color. At Multi-Color they use PC’s while at the high school we use Macs. This was something I was not really used to. However, it was pretty easy to adapt since Scottsburg has made me knowledgeable in technology. Since the high school uses Macs I was also not familiar with Excel. The one thing my internship advised me to do before I get a job in accounting is to take some Excel courses. Excel is something I will use everyday in the accounting world, and I quickly learned that out. I was on Excel pretty much every other day at my internship, which made it kind of challenging in the beginning, since