Internship paper

I started Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union on April 1, 2013. I had objectives set earlier this semester: build solid communication skills, establish the importance of teamwork in the professional environment, develop analysis skills, particularly with numerical data, and gain experience/knowledge working with financial data. While working there I feel I have met every objective I have set for myself. The course work I have learned while furthering my education has helped me meet the objectives. I had daily routines while working there, as well as tasks that can only be calculated once every three months.

I start my day off with calculating the daily liquidity report. With this report, I take the transactions from the day before and total them. I get the numbers for this total that are needed for this report from a corporate credit union website, with these numbers I take the previous day’s cash flow and determine the daily liquidity. After doing the daily liquidity report I email it off to the CEO for review. The next task is reporting the green cups, t-shirts, and garden dollars transactions in the branches. These are special items members can purchase at each branch, and the earnings go towards a go green campaign. A cash advance is a service provided by most credit card and charge card issuers. The service allows cardholders to withdraw cash, either through an ATM or over the counter at a bank or other financial agency, up to a certain limit. I take all the cash advances done each day and combine them to get a total number to be put on the report. I also put together a report for the deferred dealer fees. The deferred dealer fees are the payments that we pay out to car dealerships when they use our financial institution ...

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... Union. I have experienced what the real business world is like, and I realized that I was right in changing my major from accounting to finance. My time at the credit union will end May 16. I really enjoyed working there; the work environment was fantastic. What I am going to miss the most though are the people; they have such a supportive staff. The accounting staff, as well as the controller, helped me with my future and advanced my skills. They understood when it came to my schedule, and even at times helped me with some assignments. I would have to say they were my favorite staff to work with to this day. They were hoping to have a full-time job for me by the time I graduated, but unfortunately there was nothing available at the time. This experience could not of went better. I have an idea of what I want to do with my life, and I am ready to start my journey.