Bookkeeping as a Career
Bookkeeping Career
Linda Schneider
Baker College
Introduction
Bookkeepers keep a record of the transactions of the company like accounts receivable, accounts payable, calculation of profit and loss, etc. Bookkeepers maintain a record in the books of accounts by posting detailed entries in the journal and general ledger regularly. They maintain complete sets of financial records, keep track of accounts, and verify the accuracy of procedures used for recording financial data either manually or by computer using various software programs.
One of the leading key benefits that you can obtain from accounting is the experience you can gain from working in an accounting atmosphere. With accounting, you learn how businesses work and operate in an ever progressing field. This is an essential experience that will not only help you in the field of accounting, but this experience will also help gain knowledge of how to organize and run your own accounting or bookkeeping business. Stacy Kildal (personal communication, 2013) was introduced to bookkeeping by working at her father’s construction company; she said “I helped out a little in junior high and high school, then I fell in love with accounting and started doing extra homework in my accounting classes at Oakland Community College.” It is a fact that many successful business people in the world today, were at one time involved in the field of accounting. The knowledge they gained from accounting helped them build their own professional organizations. Even if you eventually leave a career in accounting to pursue a career somewhere else, your experiences from accounting will be useful and beneficial. The skills required in accounting are not high except in two areas being, analytical and computer skills. When compared to many of the different professional careers out there, almost any skill requires you to have some type of attention to detail as well as computer technology skills. However, accounting differs
Linda Schneider
Baker College
Introduction
Bookkeepers keep a record of the transactions of the company like accounts receivable, accounts payable, calculation of profit and loss, etc. Bookkeepers maintain a record in the books of accounts by posting detailed entries in the journal and general ledger regularly. They maintain complete sets of financial records, keep track of accounts, and verify the accuracy of procedures used for recording financial data either manually or by computer using various software programs.
One of the leading key benefits that you can obtain from accounting is the experience you can gain from working in an accounting atmosphere. With accounting, you learn how businesses work and operate in an ever progressing field. This is an essential experience that will not only help you in the field of accounting, but this experience will also help gain knowledge of how to organize and run your own accounting or bookkeeping business. Stacy Kildal (personal communication, 2013) was introduced to bookkeeping by working at her father’s construction company; she said “I helped out a little in junior high and high school, then I fell in love with accounting and started doing extra homework in my accounting classes at Oakland Community College.” It is a fact that many successful business people in the world today, were at one time involved in the field of accounting. The knowledge they gained from accounting helped them build their own professional organizations. Even if you eventually leave a career in accounting to pursue a career somewhere else, your experiences from accounting will be useful and beneficial. The skills required in accounting are not high except in two areas being, analytical and computer skills. When compared to many of the different professional careers out there, almost any skill requires you to have some type of attention to detail as well as computer technology skills. However, accounting differs
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