Each year, Sprowls & Co welcomes a few driven accounting students to join our accounting team in our Phoenix metro office for an immersive internship program. Our interns are contributing members of a strong team. In our fast-paced environment, you will work on a variety of assignments, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are encouraged to ask questions, take initiative, and produce quality work that adds value for our clients and contributes to our team’s success. 

As a Sprowls & Co intern, we want you to gain confidence in the accounting field and learn to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.

• Foster attention to detail and desire for thoroughness and accuracy.

• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.

• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.

• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.

• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.

• Gather information from a range of sources to analyze facts and discern patterns.

• Organize and facilitate communication to support findings and conclusions.

• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.

• Learn and apply professional and technical standards.

As a Tax Accounting Intern you will support tax compliance and client service engagements. You will gain a basic understanding of federal and state tax concepts as well as learn to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment. This role is ideal for candidates beginning their public accounting career who are eager to develop technical tax knowledge all while earning hours towards the Technical Reviewed Hours portion of the CPA requirement. For more information click Tax Accounting Internship.

As an Audit & Assurance Intern you will support audit teams in conducting financial statement audits and assurance engagements and participate in the review and verification of financial documents to maintain accuracy and compliance. In addition, you will assist in the application of auditing methodologies and accounting standards such as GAAP and GAAS knowledge all while earning hours towards the Technical Reviewed Hours portion of the CPA requirement. For more information click Audit & Assurance Internship.

1. You get real accounting work.  Your work will be reviewed by CPAs and will be applicable to your Certified Public Accounting requirement.

2. You will learn from senior managers and be paired with an accounting mentor.

3. You’ll be part of the Sprowls & Co team. Interns are invited to team outings, office events and firm-wide learning sessions.

4. Sprowls & Co wants to make an investment in your future. Many of our interns return for second internships or receive full-time offers before graduation.

If you’re looking for a tax or audit internship where you’ll actually learn, grow and be part of something bigger — we’d love to hear from you. Send your résumé to careers@sprowlscpa.com.