Essay On Reflective Account

In my internship as a student accounting I developed stronger analytical, organizational, written communication, and planning skills as well as a better attention to detail. In creating reports and validating invoices I developed a better analytical skill. When I started I had to ask questions about numbers I was inputting into reports because I was unsure if they made sense in the context and I didn’t know how to determine if they were. Likewise, when I first began validating invoices, I was unsure how to decipher the different charges and ensure the invoices were correct for some of the longer invoices; the times and materials ones in particular. After working there for a few weeks, I began to figure out what numbers made sense in the reports …show more content…
As such, my emails have become clearer and more professional. I have also improved at conveying my findings from reports in a manner that is more understandable. The various daily and weekly tasks that I had were overwhelming when I first started. I would spend too much time on one task, such as calling vendors about the status of open purchase orders, when I had a report that needed to be completed. I started to write a to do list at the start of every day. This helped me to better plan my day so that I accomplished what I needed to in the day, and didn’t spend more time on one thing than I could. Any tasks I didn’t finish the previous day would start at the top of my next day’s to do list. This skill has transferred well to my school work and personal life. I have become more productive at completing my homework in a timely matter. My attention to detail has greatly improved as well. The difference that could result from missing a zero, transposing a letter, or confusing a number had much larger ramification in my job than it ever did in my personal life or in schoolwork. As a result, I always made sure to double or triple check my