A University Account Trainee Program.

Abstract The article discusses a university accountant trainee program. There are three major aspects in the development of a person as an accountant--education, training and experience. For classroom work is designed to provide the first of these three. Many colleges and universities have looked for alternatives to the internship program since they have neither compatible academic schedules nor a sufficient number of conveniently-located intern sponsors to allow the operation of an internship program. One such alternative is a university accountant trainee program. Under such a program the university and the department of accounting of the school of business work together to select undergraduate accounting majors to work part-time in professional accounting jobs in the central business administration. Students selected for the program would typically begin their employment at the start of their junior year, having completed three accounting courses. These students would work approximately fifteen hours per week during their junior and senior years and forty hours per week during the summer between their junior and senior years.