A new experience at the audit firm.

I have been waiting for the longest time for this moment, my internship.

I have heard from many friends who had the experiences auditing and performing accounting duties; and other services by chartered accountants' firms.

How I long to work in one and carry on such duties.

Today, I got to do the auditing on my own.

The audit firm that I was attached to is Atarek Kamil Ibrahim & Co.

It is situated in Satok area, right above Lim Kim Soon (a little bit on the right hand side of LKS).

I was supposed to drive to the office but I doubt I could make it in time (830am) so, Addruse sent me off to the office.

Like any other new employees, I was told to fill a form while waiting for the manager in charge.

I was introduced to a wonderful lady who introduced herself as Azizi (apparently, she is Madam Azlin's sister) - a lecturer of mine in UiTMCS.

She introduced me to the whole office and one lady introduced herself as Kak Kertini or to be called as Kak TJ and the 1st few lines I heard was "we're going out at 9am, ok?"

I was "ehm, okie~" even though I was not so sure what she meant, either breakfast or work.

While strolling around the office, I saw few familiar faces who said hi and they were in the same department, audit. Oh, I forgot, I was sent off to the audit department to help the teams to audit some companies.

9am, I did not get to talk to Mr Wan Idris (who is the CEO) because we had to rush out to the client's office.

One guy asked me, "do you know anyone from iCats?" I said "no." and he said, "ok, you can come". I understand why he said that, an accountant has to be independent from any person, any relationship ties with the clients, to refrain us from being bias or having any unreliable opinions.

And so, that morning, I spent the whole morning photocopying all the documents needed, (yes, I am talking about the source documents) and also the accounts that PPKS has prepared for us.

Audit is indeed interesting to do but the thing is, it will take hours and hours to identify, to sample and to run tests on the figures and evidences.

Tiring but fun, but no pain no gain, or so we believe.

Noon, lunch at Jay Bee, or so it is called, had ayam percik which is really nice.

Would love to bring any friends there for lunch someday. =) Trust me, its good.

Then, right back to PPKS and continued with the auditing but sadly, there were power outage and we had to wait for the electricity to perform our tasks.

Waited for almost 2 hours and then the electricity was back on and ta da dumm~

Started with the auditing, mingle around with the documents and folders, and when I say folders, not just 4 or 5 but more than 20 folders to be checked on. Phew!

When the time was almost 5pm, Kak TJ would not want to get stuck in the jam so, we took our leaves.

Sent some documents for verification in the accounting department, which I will have to continue with the auditing process tomorrow. I need to prepare myself with candies and tit bits because it's going to be really quiet and busy tomorrow.

Wish me all the best and I know, I'll do the best for others, too. =)

Hope to enter another entry tomorrow!

In the meantime, enjoy your evening and good night! =)