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.

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• Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.
• Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.
• Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Debit, credit, and total accounts on computer spreadsheets and databases, using specialized accounting software.
• Classify, record, and summarize numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers.
• Calculate, prepare, and issue bills, invoices, account statements, and other financial statements according to established procedures.
• Compile statistical, financial, accounting or auditing reports and tables pertaining to such matters as cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, and profits and losses.
• Code documents according to company procedures.
• Access computerized financial information to answer general questions as well as those related to specific accounts.
• Operate 10-key calculators, typewriters, and copy machines to perform calculations and produce documents.
• Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records.
• Perform financial calculations such as amounts due, interest charges, balances, discounts, equity, and principal.
• Perform general office duties such as filing, answering telephones, and handling routine correspondence.
• Prepare bank deposits by compiling data from cashiers, verifying and balancing receipts, and sending cash, checks, or other forms of payment to banks.
• Receive, record, and bank cash, checks, and vouchers.
• Calculate and prepare checks for utilities, taxes, and other payments.
• Compare computer printouts to manually maintained journals to determine if they match.
• Reconcile records of bank transactions.
• Prepare trial balances of books.
• Monitor status of loans and accounts to ensure that payments are up to date.
• Transfer details from separate journals to general ledgers or data processing sheets.
• Compile budget data and documents, based on estimated revenues and expenses and previous budgets.
• Calculate costs of materials, overhead and other expenses, based on estimates, quotations and price lists.
• Match order forms with invoices, and record the necessary information.
• Complete and submit tax forms and returns, workers' compensation forms, pension contribution forms, and other government documents.
• Maintain inventory records.
• Perform personal bookkeeping services.
• Compute deductions for income and social security taxes.
• Prepare purchase orders and expense reports.

• Desktop computers
• Calculators or accessories
• Scanners
• Ledger paper
• Notebook computers
• Receipts or receipt books

Office suite software

Accounting software

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

Financial analysis software

Time accounting software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Document management software

Data base user interface and query software

Transaction server software

Enterprise application integration software

Compliance software

Electronic mail software