Skills — Accounting Clerk

This course will prepare students to perform the duties and responsibilities required by various positions in the accounting field. Upon completion, the student will have the working knowledge and skills to work at entry level positions as an accounting clerk, an invoice-control clerk, a payroll clerk, a bookkeeper (clerical), a cost-accounting clerk, a calculating-machine operator, or a general clerk. Students will learn to apply basic accounting principles and procedures, demonstrate the ability to use computerized accounting software, use spreadsheets, maintain an employee database, calculate taxes and other deductions, produce paychecks and registers, attain increased speed and accuracy using a calculator, and apply technical terminology of the accounting field.

Basic Principles of Accounting

Accounting Systems

Spreadsheets

Payroll

Business Math

Keyboarding/Computer Basics

Word Processing

Communications

General Office Skills

Average Course Length: 900 hours

Occupational Titles: Computer Support Specialist, Secretary, Data Entry Clerk, Clerk, Typist, Receptionist, Word Processor, Machine Operator