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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerk resume

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Also called bookkeeping accounting and auditing clerks, bookkeeping clerk, account administrator and account clerk.

$50,670
Median pay a year
1,373,680
People do this work
6
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  • Calculating financial data
  • Verifying financial or transactional accuracy
  • Compiling data or documentation
  • Maintaining financial records
  • Reconciling sales records
  • Preparing documentation
  • Searching files
  • Monitoring financial information
  • Monitoring compliance
  • Preparing cash for deposits
  • Calculating costs of goods or services
  • Operating office equipment

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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerk

Summary

Bookkeeping clerk computing, classifying, and recording financial data, ensuring accuracy in transactions and compliance with regulations. Operates accounting software, reconciles bank records, and processes payroll information

Experience

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerk

Where you worked

Month Year to Month Year
  • Operated computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information
  • Checked figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes
  • Complied with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations
  • Received, recorded, and banked cash, checks, and vouchers
  • Performed financial calculations, such as amounts due, interest charges, and balances
  • Reconciled records of bank transactions and reported discrepancies found in records
  • Prepared and processed payroll information and calculated costs of materials and expenses

Skills

Checking & Planning
Calculating financial data, Verifying financial or transactional accuracy, Compiling data or documentation, Reconciling sales records, Preparing cash for deposits
Core Skills
Preparing documentation, Searching files, Monitoring financial information, Monitoring compliance, Maintaining financial records
Tools and software
Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft Outlook, SAP software, SAP Concur

Open to

On site, Remote

Education

  • Certificate
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  • Operated accounting software to analyze and manage financial data, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations.
  • Operated accounting software to record and analyze financial data, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations.

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Operated accounting software daily for multiple accounts to analyze and manage financial data, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations

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Daily for multiple accountsWeekly for monthly reportsRegularly for quarterly audits

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Operated accounting software to record and analyze financial data, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations.

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Reduced errors in financial reportsImproved accuracy in budget forecastsStreamlined the reconciliation process

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The work itself

What a Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerk does

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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.

What it pays

How much does a Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerk make?

Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.

25th percentile$43,520
Median$50,670
75th percentile$61,470

About 1,373,680 people do this work in the United States.

What it pays in each state
State25th percentileMedian75th percentile
AK$47,270$56,430$64,360
AL$36,390$44,640$50,680
AR$36,020$42,840$51,100
AZ$44,980$50,590$59,550
CA$48,600$59,230$70,600
CO$46,400$54,000$64,170
CT$49,840$59,970$70,710
DC$55,280$65,180$77,700
DE$44,980$51,780$61,620
FL$42,890$49,330$59,960
GA$40,410$49,350$60,010
HI$42,340$48,730$58,790
IA$41,140$48,180$57,540
ID$40,770$48,310$58,660
IL$42,680$49,560$60,130
IN$39,970$47,820$57,770
KS$39,310$47,290$56,480
KY$37,450$46,550$56,610
LA$35,990$44,890$54,170
MA$49,160$59,830$69,110
MD$45,990$53,540$63,040
ME$45,100$50,510$60,210
MI$42,740$48,980$58,530
MN$46,970$54,600$62,640
MO$40,220$47,990$58,140
MS$34,890$42,840$51,080
MT$40,510$47,270$55,790
NC$39,870$47,930$58,060
ND$44,750$49,710$58,990
NE$39,000$47,110$54,900
NH$44,980$52,450$61,140
NJ$48,400$58,300$67,270
NM$40,170$48,080$58,280
NV$43,800$50,380$60,290
NY$47,400$58,160$69,330
OH$42,360$48,810$58,720
OK$38,050$46,180$56,360
OR$45,730$54,060$62,930
PA$41,840$48,440$58,910
PR$24,450$28,700$35,610
RI$46,800$53,280$63,160
SC$39,810$47,940$58,240
SD$39,370$46,340$52,000
TN$40,330$48,180$58,460
TX$40,710$48,910$60,320
UT$41,600$49,440$59,670
VA$44,420$51,620$62,230
VT$47,850$54,720$63,420
WA$49,830$58,620$66,400
WI$44,580$50,340$59,380
WV$36,450$42,890$49,520
WY$39,880$47,910$57,510

Other names

Other names for this job

bookkeeping accounting and auditing clerks, bookkeeping clerk, account administrator, account clerk, account information clerk, account receivable clerk, accountant assistant, accountant clerk, accountant helper, accounting assistant, accounting associate, accounting bookkeeper.

More names for this work

accounting clerk, accounting coordinator, accounting representative, accounting specialist, accounting technician, accounts payable clerk, accounts payable coordinator, accounts payable specialist, accounts payables clerk, accounts receivable assistant, accounts receivable clerk, accounts receivable specialist, advice clerk, amortization clerk, audit clerk, audit control clerk, auditing clerk, balance clerk, bank reconciliator, bond clerk, booking clerk, bookkeeper, bookkeeper assistant, budget clerk, budget technician, canceling and cutting control clerk, cash accounting clerk, cash register balancer, chart calculator, chart changer, chart clerk, chart computer, chart picker, chart reader, chart snatcher, check clerk, check processing clerk, classification analyst, classification control clerk, classifier, clearing house clerk, clerk analyst, clipman, collateral clerk, collection clerk, commodity loan clerk, computer bookkeeper, cost accounting clerk.

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    Median pay$50,670 a year

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  • Compiling data or documentation
  • Maintaining financial records

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