Finance/Accounting Intern - Summer 2027
Posted Aug 31, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about the accounting or finance class that challenged you most and how you worked through it.
What they are checking: Whether they respond to difficult material with effort and method, which predicts how they handle a new project here.
Tell me about a time you had to explain a number or finding to someone who was not a finance person.
What they are checking: Whether they can make financial information useful to business partners, which interns will do with senior managers.
Tell me about a group project where someone was not pulling their weight. What did you do?
What they are checking: Whether they address problems directly and still deliver, which shows maturity for a ten-week program.
Why Medline, and why a distribution and manufacturing business rather than banking or public accounting?
What they are checking: Whether they have thought about corporate finance in a real operating company and would accept a full-time offer.
What would you do
You are partway through a project and realize the numbers you were given do not tie out. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they investigate and raise the issue clearly instead of forcing the numbers to match.
You have two assignments from two different managers and both are due Friday. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they communicate early about conflicts rather than quietly missing a deadline.
What would you want to have delivered by the final presentation in August?
What they are checking: Whether they think in terms of finished, useful work rather than exposure alone.
About the work
Walk me through how the three financial statements connect.
What they are checking: Whether they have a working grasp of the basics that every finance and accounting assignment builds on.
If inventory goes up by a million dollars on the balance sheet, what happens to cash flow?
What they are checking: Whether they can reason through working capital, which matters at a distributor that carries a lot of inventory.
How comfortable are you in Excel? Tell me about a spreadsheet you built and what it did.
What they are checking: Whether they can actually do analysis work from week one rather than learning the tools on the job.
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