Cohen & Company

Cohen & Co runs a paid, hybrid internship program twice a year, in the spring and summer semesters, across four practice areas:

• Advisory
• Assurance
• Corporate Shared Services
• Tax

The firm treats interns as full-time employees from day one rather than as temporary staff, and says many of its current partners and management team members began as interns, a structure also described on the firm's own LinkedIn early-career page.

Running two intakes a year rather than one means a candidate who misses the main cycle for a given practice still has a second entry point the following semester, rather than waiting a full year to reapply.

Fund audit work is a named track at the firm, not a side practice: its early-career page lists registered funds alongside private companies as a distinct opportunity area.

For an applicant choosing between a fund-audit specialist and a full-service generalist, a seat in Cohen & Co's assurance practice carries a real chance of ETF or registered-fund engagement exposure that a similarly sized generalist firm, without that concentration, would not offer as reliably.