Personal Narrative: Multi-Color Internship

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 …show more content…
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