What exactly do bookkeepers and accounting clerks do?
Bookkeepers keep complete, up-to-date and accurate records of business financial information. They verify and enter account information into journals and ledgers or into a computer. They balance the books, compile reports and create financial statements. Bookkeepers also receive, record, bank and pay out cash. They reconcile company accounts against the monthly bank statements. They calculate employee wages from plant records or time cards and issue payroll checks. Accounting clerks calculate, post and verify financial information used to produce and maintain financial and statistical documents. Some of the work they may do includes posting accounts receivable and payable, preparing and making bank deposits, recording payrolls, maintaining inventory records, purchasing supplies, preparing purchase orders and expense reports.
