ISCO 08 Code 4311      Accounting and bookkeeping clerks

Lead Statement
Accounting and bookkeeping clerks compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. They perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records.

Task statement
Tasks include:

• checking figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes;
• operating computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyse information;
• classifying, recording, and summarizing numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers;
• calculating, preparing, and issuing bills, invoices, account statements, and other financial statements according to established procedures.
• compiling statistical, financial, accounting or auditing reports and tables pertaining to such matters as cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, and profits and losses.

Included occupations
Examples of the occupations included here:

• Clerk, accounts
• Clerk, bookkeeping
• Clerk, cost computing

Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:

• Assistant, accounting – 3314
• Bookkeeper – 3313

Notes
(NCvB; Mei 2010)