Find accounting roles that match the work
Search for “audit intern,” “tax intern” or “accounting intern” rather than treating every accounting role as the same experience. Use employer careers pages and your campus recruiting service alongside the listings here.
Check the actual role’s enrollment requirements, work location and application dates. An insight event or part-time student program has different terms from a full-time internship; the employer examples below help you tell them apart.
Recorded accounting routes to compare
Compare accounting work, completed cohort examples and a post-offer CPA event without treating them as interchangeable internships.
These dated references describe broader internship programmes, a completed cohort and a post-offer event. They do not confirm currently open accounting roles. Keep the source-check date with each reference and verify the exact employer route before applying.
Targa Resources · Recorded internship programme
Summer internship
The recorded programme includes Accounting & Tax alongside Finance, IT and Supply Chain.
Eligibility and recorded status
Targa identifies bachelor’s and master’s students and U.S. work eligibility without company sponsorship.
Recorded summer programme; confirm the exact vacancy.
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Devon Energy · Recorded internship programme
Internship program and Fall 2026 campus recruiting
The dated Devon overview lists Accounting & Tax among its internship functions.
Eligibility and recorded status
The standing internship page does not publish one universal class year, degree, major, graduation window, work-authorization rule, sponsorship policy, GPA threshold, or application deadline for every Devon internship. The campus schedule labels disciplines by school, but those labels are recruiting-focus information rather than universal eligibility rules. Use the current requisition and KING MAKER-backed InternshipDeadlines record for exact requirements.
The recorded August 26–September 30, 2026 campus dates are past recruiting events, not internship deadlines.
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Credo Technology Group · Completed Summer 2026 cohort
Summer 2026 intern experience across technical and business teams
The completed Summer 2026 class included Accounting alongside technical and other business teams.
Eligibility and recorded status
The retrospective does not publish one company-wide degree, class-year, GPA, graduation-window, citizenship, sponsorship, or work-authorization rule. Those requirements belong to each live requisition. Students should use the retrospective to understand the range of work, then use the current posting and KING MAKER-backed InternshipDeadlines record for actual eligibility.
Completed Summer 2026 cohort; the retrospective does not establish a future opening.
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PwC · Post-offer CPA event
Destination CPA — three-day post-offer student event
A three-day post-offer CPA career event, separate from the qualifying 2028 internship.
Eligibility and recorded status
Accounting major pursuing CPA academic requirements; bachelor’s sophomore in a four-year program or junior in a five-year program. Invitation requires an accepted qualifying 2028 internship offer. “How to apply” lists Audit, Tax, DAT, CMAAS and FDD; the eligibility bullet lists Audit or Tax Client Service only. Confirm the qualifying offer with PwC.
Post-offer event; 2027 dates were unannounced. The qualifying 2028 offer lists differ: Audit, Tax, DAT, CMAAS and FDD in “How to apply”; Audit or Tax Client Service in eligibility. Confirm with PwC.
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Prepare a small work sample
Use these original fictional exercises to practise the work and explain your decisions.
- Accounting internships: audit, tax and corporate
Reconcile the fictional bank statement and cash ledger, then explain why each adjustment belongs on its side. Original practice, reviewed 2026-09-16.
- Revenue reconciliation project: tie contracts, invoices, cash and the ledger
Build a synthetic revenue schedule and reconcile it to the draft ledger, explaining duplicate invoices and wrong service-start assumptions. Original practice, reviewed 2026-09-16.
- How to Build Accounting Experience Before Your First Internship
Build a fictional mini-close over ten days, with reconciliations, proposed corrections and a short walkthrough. Original practice, reviewed 2026-09-23.
Which track gives you the work you want to try?
Public accounting, internal accounting and auditing serve different purposes. Use this comparison to read a posting and ask about the intern's actual assignment. The same employer can recruit into several tracks.
Choose an accounting assignment
| Track | Work to investigate | Question for the team |
|---|---|---|
| External audit | Gathering evidence, testing and documenting findings | Which part of a test would I prepare, and would I see the review comments? |
| Tax | A specific return, compliance task or research question | Which type of tax and client would I work on? |
| Corporate accounting | Reconciliations, close, payables or reporting | Would I see a process through more than one reporting cycle? |
| Internal audit or controls | Documenting processes and checking controls | Would this assignment concern financial, operational or technology controls? |
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Work through an accounting example
A reconciliation you can explain in an interview
In this fictional example, the bank statement shows $12,400 and the company's cash ledger shows $12,650. The ledger already includes a $900 deposit that has not reached the bank statement and $700 of checks that have not cleared. The bank statement includes a $50 fee that has not reached the ledger.
Bring both records to the same basis
| Adjustment | Bank side | Ledger side |
|---|---|---|
| Starting balance | $12,400 | $12,650 |
| Deposit in transit | +$900 | Already recorded |
| Outstanding checks | −$700 | Already recorded |
| Unrecorded bank fee | Already reflected | −$50 |
| Adjusted balance | $12,600 | $12,600 |
Why the adjustments belong on different sides
Investigate an unresolved difference
What to do when the balances still disagree
Change only the deposit in transit to $890. The adjusted bank balance becomes $12,590, while the adjusted ledger remains $12,600. The $10 difference is unresolved. The data do not tell you which record is wrong.
Keep the original amounts, formulas and source references. Check the deposit evidence, outstanding-check list and ledger entries. Changing $890 to $900 just to make the workpaper balance would hide the question the reconciliation is supposed to find.
For your own application, choose a real course, club or employment example involving a checked total or conflicting records. Explain the difference, the evidence you examined and what remained unresolved. Coursework does not need to be called a professional audit to demonstrate care.
Compare recruiting routes
Choose a recruiting route that fits your calendar
PwC's Advance program is a route into client work with training and coaching. Caterpillar has a separate paid part-time student program that includes accounting and finance and depends on proximity to a facility. Inspect the practice, office and working term before treating either as a suitable offer.
RSM Explore is different: a one-day virtual introduction to assurance, tax and consulting, not an internship. Use it to investigate a practice, not as a substitute for paid work.
For an actual placement, check the advertised graduation window, academic requirements and hours. When a role asks about CPA eligibility, answer the stated requirement for the relevant jurisdiction rather than assuming an internship title establishes a universal rule.
Evaluate supervision and feedback
Look for feedback you can use on the next assignment
Ask: After someone reviews my work, will I see the corrections and get to try the process again? A repeating reconciliation or testing assignment can teach a great deal when you understand the review. Repeating an unexplained task teaches less.
Compare the actual term and schedule alongside pay. For a spring placement, establish which working hours conflict with classes. In your interview, explain one calculation clearly before listing every software package you have encountered.