Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks typically perform the following tasks: • 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. • Perform general office duties, such as filing, answering telephones, and handling routine correspondence. • Access computerized financial information to answer general questions as well as those related to specific accounts. • Classify, record, and summarize numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers. • Debit, credit, and total accounts on computer spreadsheets and databases, using specialized accounting software. • Match order forms with invoices, and record the necessary information. • Prepare and process payroll information. • Prepare bank deposits by compiling data from cashiers, verifying and balancing receipts, and sending cash, checks, or other forms of payment to banks. • Calculate and prepare checks for utilities, taxes, and other payments. • Monitor status of loans and accounts to ensure that payments are up to date. • Reconcile records of bank transactions. • Compile budget data and documents, based on estimated revenues and expenses and previous budgets. • Compare computer printouts to manually maintained journals to determine if they match.