Sameer Sharma is a senior at UMBC, majoring in financial economics as well as fulfilling his duties as the UMBC Accounting Club's Vice President.
Here is what he has to say about the internship he completed this summer:
I did my internship at Aronson LLC and I was an audit intern in the employee benefit plans group. So basically auditing 401k plans. I did a lot during the internship.
Aronson does a great job of letting interns get immediate hands-on experience in the audit. For example in a benefit plan audit, you have to look at employees from the company you are auditing to make sure they are getting the money they put into their 401k and making sure the match that the employer gives is correct. If these numbers are off then these companies get hit with big fines by the Department of Labor. So I would have to look at payroll documents and other things to make sure all the numbers were correct. This is just one of the many things I did during the internship.
The best skill I learned was how to perform the audits themselves. I had never worked in public accounting or did anything to do with audits so everything was new to me. But I got the hang of it pretty quickly.
My favorite part was getting to meet all the people working there. Aronson also had a lot of cool events they took us to like a Nats game which was very fun.
Congratulations to Sameer on his successful summer internship!
We would love to hear more summer internship & job stories. If YOU would like to be our spotlight of the week next week, please email carleyb1@umbc.edu with a description of your experience, the best skill you learned at your internship and your favorite part of the internship.