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Vanessa Morgan
Accountant Intern with supervised experience in month-end close, account reconciliations, lease accounting, and audit trails. Practical work includes Journal entries, Reconciliations, Lease accounting, Audit support.
Experience
Corgi Insurance
Las Vegas · United States
Accountant Intern
Jun 2026 - Aug 2026
- Under supervision, reconciled a balance-sheet account to supporting schedules, investigated aged reconciling items, and attached approval evidence to correcting journal entries before month-end close.
- The team prepared accrual journal entries and account reconciliations for month-end close, tying supplier invoices and service dates to the reporting period; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team resolved a cutoff discrepancy before the controller approved the close and retained the adjustment rationale; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
- The team rebuilt lease accounting schedules for store amendments and assembled audit evidence linking contracts, payment dates, and ledger balances; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team made each changed balance traceable without asking auditors to reconstruct the calculation from email; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
- Under supervision, owned monthly journal-entry review using reconciliation schedules, resolved missing accrual evidence and completed the financial-reporting package for controller approval.
- Under supervision, published an audit evidence index using account-level references, reduced document retrieval from 18 to 6 minutes and retained the accounting approval trail.
Selected project
Month-end close handover
Intern project team member
Sep 2025 - May 2026
- In a mentor-reviewed simulation, prepared accrual journal entries and account reconciliations for month-end close, tying supplier invoices and service dates to the reporting period; resolved a cutoff discrepancy before the controller approved the close and retained the adjustment rationale.
- As a second supervised exercise, rebuilt lease accounting schedules for store amendments and assembled audit evidence linking contracts, payment dates, and ledger balances; made each changed balance traceable without asking auditors to reconstruct the calculation from email.
- Within a supervisor-assigned documentation task, documented close tasks, source files, and reviewer sign-offs for recurring balance-sheet accounts. allowed a backup accountant to complete the next close using the same control checks.
- Used Journal entries and Accruals to compare the source record with the proposed result; documented exceptions, the reviewer, and the acceptance decision before handoff.
- Created a synthetic ledger and supporting schedules with timing differences, reversals and an unmatched item; reconciled opening and closing balances and retained the source for each proposed adjustment.
- Tested the workbook after changing a period and reversing an input, identified formulas that failed to update, and added a control total and reviewer notes explaining the remaining assumptions.
- Owned the synthetic-ledger reconciliation using control totals, resolved an out-of-period posting and completed an evidence index linking every adjustment to its source record.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration — in progress
Sep 2023 - Jun 2027
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Journal entries · Reconciliations · Lease accounting · Audit support · Excel
Publications
- Published a personal accounting methods note using synthetic journal entries, explaining cutoff judgments, reconciliation differences and the approvals needed before changing a real ledger.

