Last updated: September 2026
Frazier & Deeter is the rare accounting firm where you can find out what the internship pays before you apply. Its live campus requisitions in pay-transparency states put the number right on the posting: $38 an hour in Massachusetts, $35 an hour in Minnesota, Nevada and Maryland. Founded in Atlanta in 1981 by Jim Frazier and David Deeter, FD has grown into the 49th largest CPA firm in the United States by revenue, booking $108.5 million with roughly 389 people, and it has now been named one of Inside Public Accounting’s Best of the Best firms for 18 consecutive years. Vault ranked it #6 among Best Internships for Compensation & Benefits, #11 among Best Accounting Internships, and #20 for Quality of Assignments in 2026. And FD does not warehouse its interns. Vault’s program description is blunt: “Interns are assigned associate-level work after about two weeks of intensive training.”
Quick Facts
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Where to apply | frazierdeeter.com/careers/openings. Also accepted via LinkedIn and Handshake |
| Application window (2027–28) | All 32 campus intern requisitions went live on August 26, 2026. No close date on any posting. Rolling review |
| Rolling? | Yes. No deadline in any requisition; Greenhouse exposes no close date. Apply in week one for the best odds |
| Eligibility | Not published in the requisitions. No GPA, no major, no class year, no work-authorization clause stated. Vault records a 3.50–3.99 GPA band |
| Duration | Not stated in any requisition. Vault records Summer and Full-time. The IGNITE onboarding program runs the first two days |
| Compensation | $38/hr in Massachusetts; $35/hr in Minnesota, Nevada and Maryland (employer-published flat rates). Non-transparency states do not publish a rate |
| Return offers | No conversion rate published. The firm runs a continuous Associates hiring track and a named campus-hire partner made it to Partner |
| Locations | 11 US cities: Atlanta, Alpharetta, Nashville, Charlotte, Tampa, Pensacola, Huntsville, Las Vegas, Towson, Plymouth MN, Canton MA |
The two numbers that matter: $35–$38/hr published in pay-transparency states, and 32 live campus requisitions across 11 US offices, all dropped on August 26, 2026 with no close date. Apply now; rolling review fills seats progressively.
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What Is a Frazier & Deeter Internship?
A Frazier & Deeter internship is a paid placement that puts college students into real client work across Tax and Assurance at a Top 50 US CPA firm generating $108.5 million in annual revenue. The firm, founded in Atlanta in 1981 and led by Managing Director Seth McDaniel, employs roughly 389 people across offices in the US, UK and India. Interns are explicitly told they will “operate as an associate on engagements” and are “treated as a true member of the engagement team.” Vault says associate-level work starts after about two weeks of intensive training through the IGNITE onboarding program, with buddy outings every other week. Tax interns prepare returns for individuals, partnerships, corporations and trusts, while Assurance interns travel to client sites for balance-sheet testing and audit reporting. The firm’s clients range from emerging businesses to Fortune 500 companies, and FD has been named a Best of the Best firm by Inside Public Accounting for 18 consecutive years and a Best Firm for Equity Leadership by the Accounting MOVE Project for 12 consecutive years.
When Do Frazier & Deeter Internship Applications Open for 2027–2028?
Frazier & Deeter dropped its entire campus intern cycle in a single evening on August 26, 2026: 32 requisitions across 11 US cities, all published between 6:14 and 8:41 p.m. EDT. None carries a close date. Tax has roughly twice the openings of Assurance (21 versus 9), and only four offices hire Assurance interns in all seasons: Atlanta, Nashville, Tampa and Huntsville. Canton, Massachusetts is the sole office with “Campus 2027” requisitions; every other office carries “Campus 2028” titles. The firm does not publish dates on its intern postings, so confirm the actual term with the recruiter before accepting.
All 32 campus intern requisitions are live and accepting applications as of September 7, 2026. No close date on any posting. You are in week two of a rolling cycle; applying now puts you at the front of the queue.
All 32 campus intern requisitions published in a single coordinated drop between 6:14 and 8:41 p.m. EDT. Tax and Assurance across Spring and Summer seasons, in 11 US cities.
Campus recruiting season. Expect partner interviews and associate lunches. Rolling offers extended as the class fills. Tax has roughly twice the openings of Assurance.
Spring internships run (Spring Tax and Spring Assurance tracks). Spring interns work through tax busy season, which means more real work and more pressure than a summer program.
Summer Tax and Summer Assurance internships run. The IGNITE onboarding program kicks off with two days of intensive training before interns begin associate-level client work.
How to read this page: our dates come from tracking previous recruiting cycles and daily posting data. Treat them as informed estimates based on historical patterns, not confirmed dates. The company's official careers page is always the most current source. If a role is posted there, go by that, even if this page suggests the window hasn't opened yet.
Why You Must Apply the Week Applications Open
Frazier & Deeter dropped 32 campus intern requisitions in a single evening on August 26, 2026, and none carries a close date. That combination — a coordinated opening and rolling review — means the class fills progressively from the front of the queue. A student applying in September 2026 is in week two. A student applying in November is competing for whatever seats remain. Tax has roughly twice the openings of Assurance, so if you are genuinely open to both tracks, Tax is the higher-probability application. And the interview itself rewards preparation: a former intern who got the offer described two separate partner interviews followed by lunch with associates, and the specific thing the partners noticed was that the candidate brought a notebook with prepared questions and took notes. That is a low-cost, high-signal move you can execute in week one.
Which Frazier & Deeter Internship Programs Should You Target?
Frazier & Deeter offers two main internship tracks (Tax and Assurance) across two seasons (Spring and Summer), plus an onboarding program and a buddy system that runs throughout.
| Program | Focus | Duration | Key details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer Tax Internship | Tax return preparation for individuals, partnerships, corporations and trusts; correspondence with tax authorities; memo drafting; client meetings | Not published | Paid; $35–$38/hr in transparency states; 10 of 11 offices hiring; associate-level work after IGNITE training |
| Summer Assurance Internship | Planning procedures, balance sheet and income statement testing, audit reporting; client-site fieldwork | Not published | Paid; performance manager plus buddy; travel to client locations; 4–6 offices hiring |
| Spring Tax Internship | Same scope as summer, run during busy season (Jan–Apr) | Not published | Higher volume of real work; 11 offices hiring |
| Spring Assurance Internship | Same scope as summer assurance, run during busy season | Not published | 5 offices hiring |
See all openings on the official Frazier & Deeter careers page. Each office is a separate requisition, so applying to Atlanta and Nashville means two applications. Tax has roughly twice the openings of Assurance.
What Are the Eligibility Requirements?
Frazier & Deeter’s intern requisitions are unusual in that they contain no stated eligibility criteria at all. All 32 were read in full; none states a degree requirement, major, GPA, class year, graduation date, CPA-eligibility clause, or work-authorization statement.
• Degree / major: not published in any requisition. The firm’s students page frames the audience as students in tax, audit or advisory.
• GPA: not published in any requisition. Vault records a minimum GPA band of 3.50–3.99, which is Vault’s second-highest band. Treat it as a guideline, not a cutoff, because FD has not published one.
• Work authorization: not stated in any requisition, in either direction. International students should ask the recruiter directly.
• Travel: Assurance interns explicitly travel to client locations. Tax requisitions do not mention travel.
What Does the Absence of Stated Criteria Actually Mean?
It means you cannot disqualify yourself on paper before applying. There is no published GPA gate to clear and no stated sponsorship exclusion to rule you out. The flip side is you will have to ask the recruiter about term dates and work authorization because the posting will not tell you. The honest advice: apply, and ask the questions FD’s requisitions leave unanswered.
What Skills Does Frazier & Deeter Look For, and How Do You Build Them?
Frazier & Deeter runs two distinct requisition templates across its 32 live intern postings: one for Tax and one for Assurance. The Tax template emphasises return preparation, authority correspondence, memo drafting and client meetings. The Assurance template emphasises planning procedures, balance-sheet and P&L testing, audit reporting and client-site fieldwork. Both tracks share the same core promise: interns operate as associates on engagements and are treated as true members of the engagement team. The one named software tool in any FD intern account is CCH Axcess, Wolters Kluwer’s cloud tax compliance platform, used for entering K-1s and preparing returns.
What Frazier & Deeter looks for in interns
Skills across 2 Frazier & Deeter intern & analyst job descriptions · Two distinct JD templates across 32 live 2027–2028 campus requisitions, read 2026-09-07
Method: full-text analysis of both distinct FD intern requisition templates (Tax and Assurance) from 32 live postings on Greenhouse, 2026-09-07. n = 2 unique templates; frequencies show how many templates mention each skill.
How Is Demand for Accounting & Advisory Interns Moving Right Now?
Accounting & advisory intern hiring right now: September 2026
Across US public accounting and advisory intern postings tracked this week · aggregate market data, all employers
September 2026 is this tracker’s baseline month. The signal now is coordinated campus drops: firms that post all their intern reqs on one day are running a deliberate, rolling-admission cycle rather than a trickle. Apply in week one, not month two.
Method: aggregate analysis of US public accounting and advisory intern postings, September 2026 baseline. Sample indexes under half of all US postings; figures show direction and relative level, not total market share.
Build These Skills Before You Apply
And every skill in the chart maps to a remote Externship where you finish a real company project before the interview.
| Skill (from real JDs) | JD evidence | Externship that builds it |
|---|---|---|
| Financial statement analysis & return prep | Tax and Assurance tracks: preparing returns, balance-sheet testing, audit reporting, drafting financial statements | Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling |
| Data analysis & audit evidence | Assurance track: working through transactional business data to a defensible conclusion on client engagements | Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis |
| AI & document intelligence | FD interns complete a program-long group project on AI; the firm publishes AI governance insights | Pfizer AI-Powered Document Intelligence |
How close is the overlap? The Yinan Zhao deliverable is financial-statement analysis in the same vocabulary FD’s audit and tax tracks use, the Breaking Games project builds the data-analysis evidence every assurance engagement probes, and the Pfizer AI project maps directly to FD’s own intern AI group project.
What Is the Frazier & Deeter Application and Interview Process Like?
Frazier & Deeter does not publish a step-by-step interview guide, but a former intern who received an offer described the process with unusual specificity:
1. Find the right requisition at frazierdeeter.com/careers/openings. Each office is a separate posting, so applying to Atlanta and Nashville means two applications. Pick your track (Tax or Assurance) and season (Spring or Summer).
2. Apply through Greenhouse. The apply link carries a ?gh_jid= parameter. LinkedIn and Handshake are also accepted routes.
3. Two separate partner interviews. A former intern described interviewing with two partners, separately, and noted that partners were “impressed with how I brought a notebook with prepared questions and took notes as they responded.”
4. Lunch with two associates. The informal round. Associates are assessing you too, and this is your chance to ask what busy season actually feels like.
5. Offer. Rolling; no deadline published. The entire campus cycle went live on August 26, 2026.
Because FD’s requisitions contain no eligibility criteria at all, the interview is where the screening happens. Prepare for behavioral and fit questions rather than technical puzzles, and bring that notebook. Our HireVue question guide with a free AI mock tool covers the same behavioral-question pressure and format.
What Former Interns Say
Reddit, Indeed and Glassdoor all yielded zero usable intern voices for Frazier & Deeter. The cards below draw on Vault’s intern review program, where former FD interns describe the work, the interview and the culture with first-hand specificity. Vault does not date its reviews.
A former intern described two separate partner interviews followed by lunch with two associates, and the specific thing that landed: the partners were impressed with how the candidate brought a notebook with prepared questions and took notes as they responded. That single detail is the most actionable piece of interview advice on this page.
As an intern, I was responsible for preparing low-level tax returns for individuals, partnerships, corporations, and trusts. I also helped my coworkers with client correspondence and certain parts of preparing complex tax returns, such as pulling K-1s and inputting them into CCH Axcess. Four entity types in one internship is real breadth for a campus hire.
Vault’s program description puts it plainly: interns are assigned associate-level work after about two weeks of intensive training, with a buddy outing every other week to ensure interns get to know people across the firm. Past interns say FD had one of the best company cultures they had the ability to work with.
How Do You Stand Out When the Requisition Tells You Nothing?
FD’s intern requisitions contain no eligibility criteria, no dates and no stated GPA. That means the screening happens in the room, not on paper. Three moves that work. First, apply in week one. The entire campus cycle dropped on August 26, 2026, and rolling review fills seats from the front. Second, bring a notebook with prepared questions and take notes. That is not generic advice; it is the specific behaviour a partner rewarded in the one detailed intern account available. Third, know CCH Axcess by name. It is Wolters Kluwer’s cloud tax compliance platform, the only named software in any FD intern account, and ten minutes reading about it puts you ahead of nearly every other applicant. And if you are choosing between Tax and Assurance: Tax has roughly twice the openings, but Assurance interns get a named performance manager and travel to client sites. Choose the one you would genuinely pick if both offered.
What Other Companies Should You Consider?
Frazier & Deeter’s peer set spans Atlanta-based and Southeast CPA and advisory firms that recruit from the same accounting student pool.
- AprioAtlanta-headquartered Top 25 CPA and advisory firm; the most direct geographic and size competitorGuide →
- Bennett Thrasheranother Atlanta CPA and advisory firm, closer to FD in size than AprioGuide →
- Cherry BekaertTop 25 Southeast CPA firm with overlapping office map in Atlanta, Nashville, Tampa and CharlotteGuide →
- WithumTop 25 firm with a comparably well-regarded campus program and similar mid-market positioningGuide →
- CroweTop 10 firm; the tier above FD for students weighing a Top 50 firm against a national oneGuide →
Our Big 4 accounting and audit internships 2027 guide maps the full landscape of accounting opportunities, timeline by timeline.
FAQ
Can I still apply for a summer 2026 Frazier & Deeter internship?
No. The summer 2026 cycle has ended. The next open cycle is 2027–2028: all 32 campus intern requisitions went live on August 26, 2026 and are accepting applications now with no published close date. Apply at frazierdeeter.com/careers/openings.
How much do Frazier & Deeter interns get paid?
Where state law requires it, FD publishes the rate directly on the requisition: $38 per hour in Massachusetts and $35 per hour in Minnesota, Nevada and Maryland. These are flat rates, not ranges. Requisitions in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina and Alabama do not publish a rate. Vault ranked the program #6 among Best Internships for Compensation and Benefits for 2026.
What GPA do I need for a Frazier & Deeter internship?
No GPA requirement appears in any of the 32 live requisitions. Vault records a 3.50–3.99 band for the program. Treat that as a signal about who typically gets in rather than a published cutoff, because FD has not published one.
What is the Frazier & Deeter internship interview like?
A former intern described two separate interviews with partners, followed by lunch with two associates. The partners were specifically impressed by a candidate who brought a notebook with prepared questions and took notes. Prepare for behavioral and fit questions rather than technical puzzles.
What will I do as a tax intern at Frazier & Deeter?
Prepare tax returns for individuals, partnerships, corporations and trusts; communicate with tax authorities; draft memos; and attend client meetings. A former intern described pulling K-1s and inputting them into CCH Axcess. You will operate as an associate on engagements after about two weeks of IGNITE training.
What will I do as an assurance intern?
Planning procedures, balance-sheet and income-statement testing, and audit reporting, working with seniors and managers across multiple industries. Assurance interns also travel to client locations. You get a named performance manager in addition to the buddy every intern is assigned.
Does Frazier & Deeter sponsor visas for interns?
The requisitions say nothing about work authorization or sponsorship, in either direction. This is a genuine absence across all 32 postings. Ask the recruiter directly rather than assuming.
Which offices hire interns?
Eleven US cities: Atlanta GA, Alpharetta GA, Nashville TN, Charlotte NC, Tampa FL, Pensacola FL, Huntsville AL, Las Vegas NV, Towson MD, Plymouth MN and Canton MA. Assurance internships are concentrated in Atlanta, Nashville, Tampa, Huntsville, Plymouth and Canton; Tax is posted in nearly every office.
Frazier & Deeter’s 32 campus requisitions are live, rolling, and filling from the front. Spend the runway building proof: a remote Externship turns “interested in public accounting” into a finished project a fall 2026 partner interview can point at.
About the Author
Bifei Wang has spent 17 years focused on human flow and the growth of young professionals, spanning international education, career training and coaching, and recruitment process outsourcing. Over 7 years at Extern, he has had one-on-one sessions with thousands of students exploring careers in consulting, finance, tech, marketing, and data, giving him a firsthand view of how the job market has shifted for early-career professionals and what it actually takes to break in.
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