Saudi Electronic UniversityCollege of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Accounting Department
Student Name:
Student ID:
Course Title: Internship
Course Code: ACCT403
Academic Year/ Semester:
CRN:
Instructor Name:
Student Grade:
Grade Level:
APPENDIX 4
Academic Report Guideline (Co-op)
The purpose of the Internship Report is offer students to describe their accomplishments and
demonstrate what they learned through participation at Saudi Electronic University. The report
should be submitted within two weeks after you finish your Co-op training Program. In addition,
the report should be approximately 3000 – 4000, single –spaced and consider taking the following
format
1. First Page
First page should display student’s full name, internship start and finish dates, working hours
per week, company/institution name.
This page should be signed by the work and university supervisor off the intern student.
Cover page form
Internship Report
Student`s name :
Student`s ID # :
Training Organization:
Trainee Department:
Field Instructor Name:
Faculty Member:
Field Instructor Signature:
Faculty Member Signature:
Internship Start Date:
Internship End Date:
Course:
CRN:
Academic Year/Semester:
2. A Brief Executive Summary of the Internship
A one-page summary of the company/institution and a short account of the major activities
carried out during the internship period.
3. Table of Contents
Contents of the report with page numbers, list of tables, and list of figures.
4. Description of the company
This section should answer the following questions:
• What is the full title of the company/institution? Give a brief history of the company, full
mailing address and relevant web links
• What is the type of ownership of the company/institution? State the main shareholders and
their shares.
• What is the sector that the company/institution operates in? Specify the products and
services produced and offered to its customers/clients.
• Who are regarded as the customers/clients of your internship company (consider the end
users, retailers, other manufacturers, employees, etc.)?
• Provide an organization chart of the company, along with information on the number of
employees.
•
Provide a list of functions performed by different departments/divisions in the internship
organization.
5. Internship activities
This is the main body of your report. During the internship period, an intern may focus on the
following types of analysis and questions. You do not have to answer all the questions in the list:
• Describe your working conditions and functions, such as: Who is your supervisor (include
his/her name and his/her position); other team members or co-workers and what their
functions are to complement yours.
• Provide an organization chart of the internship organization.
• Provide the department or division layout of the internship organization.
• Provide an overview off the production system or service procedure (what are the resources,
inputs, outcomes, and constraints?)
• Provide a process chart of a major product and/or service.
• What kind of accounting/finance/IT//quality/marketing standards and principles are used in
the organization?
• Discuss telecommunication technologies (Database, Instant Messenger,
Networking, Ecommerce tools) used in the company.
• Describe the quality planning and control activities in the internship organization.
• Describe the quality control activities throughout the life cycle of the product/service groups.
• What kind of financial analysis and decision-making methods are used by corporate treasurers
and financial managers in the internship organization?
• What kinds of incentives are used in order to create more effective and efficient organization?
• What types of marketing, selling, and human resources analysis are performed (cost system,
evaluation of consumers, needs, product strategy, distribution strategy, promotional strategy)?
• Describe what kind of working documents and analysis you did there and what experiences
you have gained throughout your training.
•A comparison between theory (things you have learned in the classroom) and practice (things
you did or observed at the company) must be made and highlighted.
• Show some work samples that you have encountered/conducted at the company through
graphs, pictures, data, drawings, or design calculations and include them in your report.
College of Administration and Finance Sciences
Form Number 3 – PERIODIC REPORT
College of Administration and Finance Sciences
Week 1
(Report Components)
What are the activities and tasks given to you during this
month?
Task(s)
Prepare Journal entry
What skills did you learn through the month?
New skill(s)
Training to prepare Journal entry and The difference between
the debtor and the creditor .
How many meetings did you attend?
Meeting(s)
1
What are the difficulties you had this month?
Some problems in recognizing accounts (debit or credit)
Difficulty/ Challenge(s)
How did you overcome these difficulties?
Know the nature of the accounts, whether (debit or credit)
Learning
What did you learn from completing the tasks
Prepare Journal entry And the effect of that on Accounting
operations and financial reports
What did you want to learn more?
Preparation of trial balance
Week2
(Report Components)
Task(s)
New skill(s)
What are the activities and tasks given to you during this
month?
1. prepare Chart of Accounts
2. keeping all financial documents .
3. Preparing ledger accounts for the bank
What skills did you learn through the month?
Training to prepare Chart of Accounts
and understanding bank statement.
How many meetings did you attend?
Meeting(s)
1
What are the difficulties you had this month?
Difficulty/ Challenge(s)
Dealing with CODES of Chart of Accounts
How did you overcome these difficulties?
Practical education prepare Chart of Accounts
What did you learn from completing the tasks
1. The relationship between the accounts and the chart
of accounts .
2. keeping all financial documents .
Learning
What did you want to learn more?
Preparation of trial balance . financial reports and statements
Week 3
(Report Components)
Task(s)
New skill(s)
Meeting(s)
What are the activities and tasks given to you during this
month?
1. Prepare VAT report .
2. Prepare trial balance .
3. Preparing financial reports and statements
What skills did you learn through the month?
1. Extracting VAT from purchase and sales invoices
2. Using accounting software and Excel to extract
financial reports
How many meetings did you attend?
1
What are the difficulties you had this month?
Difficulty/ Challenge(s)
Teaching accounting software on the cloud, such as ODOO
How did you overcome these difficulties?
Teaching small and Arabic accounting software
What did you learn from completing the tasks
Prepare trial balance, financial reports and statements
Learning
What did you want to learn more?
Preparation Cost centers report for projects