Snapshot

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.

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