Potential Positions Program graduates work as bookkeeping assistants, accounts receivable/accounts payable clerks, ledger clerks, and payroll clerks. Nationally, about 25% of bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks are employed in wholesale or retail trade and 35% are employed in organizations providing business, health, educational, and social services.
Employment Outlook Employment opportunities are expected to increase slower than average through the year 2012. The large size of the occupation ensures plentiful job openings, including many opportunities for temporary and part-time work. Virtually all job openings will stem from replacement needs as other clerks and assistants transfer to other occupations or leave the labor force.
Typical Tasks Working under the supervision of a bookkeeper, the specific tasks typically required of a bookkeeping assistant include:
Recording debits and credits;
Comparing current and past balance sheets;
Summarizing details of separate ledgers;
Preparing reports for supervisors and managers;
Preparing bank deposits by compiling data from cashiers, verifying and balancing receipts, and sending the cash, checks, or other forms of payment to the bank;
Keeping financial records of establishment up through trial balance;
Posting details to subsidiary accounts; and
Reconciling and balancing accounts.
This program typically starts in Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer Quarters
