Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks: where your skills can take you
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.
Usual study level (from US data): Cert IV or Diploma (TAFE; if you have experience, recognition of prior learning can shorten it)
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Three moves that use what a bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerk already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
🧰 Your current job already uses working with numbers, looking after customers and clients, solving difficult problems and managing your own time.
🎓 No more study. The most common level in Australia is Year 12 or below (37%).
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Compile and record employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions, or prepare paychecks.
Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks
🧰 Your current job already uses managing your own time, working in step with other people, looking after customers and clients and reading people.
🎓 No more study. The most common level in Australia is Year 12 or below (32%).
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Authorize credit charges against customers' accounts. Investigate history and credit standing of individuals or business establishments applying for credit. May interview applicants to obtain personal and financial data, determine credit worthiness, process applications, and notify customers of acceptance or rejection of credit.
Billing and Posting Clerks
🧰 Your current job already uses working with numbers, managing your own time, looking after customers and clients and solving difficult problems.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (77%).
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Compile, compute, and record billing, accounting, statistical, and other numerical data for billing purposes. Prepare billing invoices for services rendered or for delivery or shipment of goods.
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