Report of training course

Introduction

I carried my training period to Distillerie De La Tour to Pons (Charente-Maritime) from May 17th till June 26th, 2010. The Distillerie De La Tour is specialized in alcohol distillation and concentrated must production. The company uses fifty five persons. Distillerie De La Tour is present on the international market: European Union, the Eastern Europe, Asia, South Africa and North America.

Missions

During the training course I realized various tasks: I counted invoices in the accounting software and I made them payments (checks, transfers, effects). Daily, I realized states of finance. I calculated and on-line seizure the declaration of VAT of May. Every day, I made states of link of banks and a past of the phone conversations with them when I wished the detail of bank statements.

My Impressions

The benefits :
This training period I has taught me team-work and has improved my self-confidence.
It has enabled me to put one's knowledge into practise.
The staff was helpful, understanding and kind.
I appreciated contact with clients and humans relationships.

The difficulties :
Tasks were me stressful as the first phone conversation with the bank and the first confrontation with the Chief Executive Officer.
The customers of the company are mainly foreign, I thus met difficulties for the reading of invoices in english.

Conclusion

This training course consolidated me in my choice of future. This work experience gave me the envy to continue after the BTS with a DCG but by alternation. My choice of job, the accounting and the management, is doubtless my future,