Overview

Accounting Clerks monitor creditor and debtor accounts, undertake related routine documentation, and calculate and investigate the cost of wages, materials, overheads and other operating costs.

• Job prospects - good
• Weekly earnings - $870
• Occupation size - 123400
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Tasks

This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.

• preparing and processing documentation related to accounts payable and receivable
• reconciling invoices and despatching payments
• calculating, analysing and investigating the costs of proposed expenditure, wages and standard costs
• preparing bank reconciliations
• allocating expenditure to specified budget accounts
• summarising expenditure and receipts
• preparing records of standard costs and values for items such as raw materials and packaging supplies
• recording cost variations and contract price movements
• compiling cost data for preparation of operating budgets, and profit and loss calculations
• investigating the costs of proposed expenditures, quotations and estimates
• preparing reports of total costs, inventory adjustments, selling prices and profits
• may work in a call centre

Job Titles

• Accounts Clerk 
• Cost Clerk