A professional who keeps records of financial transactions for establishment, using calculator and computer. Responsibilities include:

• Verifies, allocates, and posts details of business transactions to subsidiary accounts in journals or computer files from documents, such as sales slips, invoices, receipts, check stubs, and computer printouts.
• Summarizes details in separate ledgers or computer files and transfers data to general ledger, using calculator or computer.
• Reconciles and balances accounts.
• May compile reports to show statistics, such as cash receipts and expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, profit and loss, and other items pertinent to operation of business.
• May calculate employee wages from plant records or time cards and prepare checks for payment of wages.
• May prepare withholding, Social Security, and other tax reports.
• May compute, type, and mail monthly statements to customers.
• May be designated according to kind of records of financial transactions kept, such as Accounts-Receivable Bookkeeper, and Accounts-Payable Bookkeeper.
• May complete records to or through trial balance.