As an intern at Tate and Tryon, I have learned that the work never seems to get repetitive. Since I wrote my last blog, I have been in the office only a couple of days. My first day out of the office was for the Tate and Tryon Audit Fun Day. The Fun Day was held at ESPN Zone, where there was an open bar and lots of appetizers. Being a month and a half away from being 21, I still had a good time cleaning up the appetizers and sipping on my sprite. Each employee then got a game card to play any of the ESPN Zone games. The games of choice seemed to be basketball, football, and hockey. Hockey wasn't the game for me because I'm a lefty, and they didn't have a left-handed stick. So I ventured over to the basketball game and placed a solid 4 th out of 4 players. Later on I got a little better at that game as I found my shot, but the game for me was the football game. Growing up with backyard football and playing football in high school, I’ve picked up on how to throw the old pig skin pretty well. After a cut throat competition with one of the other interns, I ended up on top by one point. ESPN Zone was a great time.
After getting more training in the office for a few days, I headed over to 14 th Street for my Pro Bono work with Central Union Mission. The first day we had a monthly lunch for the third Tuesday in June. After I was introduced to everyone, I got familiarized with the accounting system that Central Union used. James, one of the members of accounting department was in charge of me for the first week. James was in charge of filing the invoice expenses and entering them into the system. The software they used was QuickBooks which I was slightly familiar with. I helped James enter those invoices in the system, and then filed them for the upcoming audit. Every Friday they would cut the checks, and, because it was a nonprofit organization, they would have to choose what time the amounts should be paid because of their gift income. Then I rolled forward the filing system they use for their invoices and created new folders for the next fiscal year. The next week I worked with John who was in charge of the deposits that are made in donor's names. I would scan the checks with the SunTrust check scanner and it would make an automatic deposit. I would then reconcile this total with a manual total I made to see if it matched. I began to get very good at this as the week went on, and it was interesting to see how the deposit slips were filled out and they kept track of the batches. You don't really learn the more practical side of this type of accounting in your accounting class so real life experience is definitely helpful to see. I also helped Len Conner, Senior Manager, take a look at a capital expenditures report. I debited and credited out the buildings with the liabilities payable to see if the badges made sense. I was glad to have taken intermediate accounting as I used those recent skills to balance the accounts. I arrived back at T & T on the 2 nd of July where it was a half day, and Friday was a holiday. Now being back in the T & T office, I feel fresh and ready to help out the audit department again.
-Tim Tishman
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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