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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

  • Bright Outlook
  • Numerous Job Openings

Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.

What you’d do

  • Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.
  • Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.
  • Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
  • Operate 10-key calculators, typewriters, and copy machines to perform calculations and produce documents.
  • Receive, record, and bank cash, checks, and vouchers.
  • Code documents according to company procedures.
  • Perform financial calculations, such as amounts due, interest charges, balances, discounts, equity, and principal.
  • Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records.

Skills that matter

  • Mathematics
  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Writing

How to get there

Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree

Also called

  • Account Clerk
  • Accounting Assistant
  • Accounting Clerk
  • Accounts Payables Clerk
  • Accounting Associate
  • Accounting Specialist

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