Certified Bookkeeper

Careers in Bookkeeping

Bookkeepers are financial record keepers. They update and maintain accounting records, including those that calculate expenditures, receipts, accounts payable and receivable, and profit and loss. These workers have a wide range of skills from full-charge bookkeepers that can maintain an entire company’s books to accounting clerks who handle specific tasks. All of these clerks make numerous computations each day and increasingly must be comfortable using computers to calculate and record data.

 

Employment Prospects

Employment of bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks is projected to grow by 12 percent during the 2006-16 decade, which is as fast as the average for all occupations. Due to its size, this occupation will have among the largest numbers of new jobs arise, about 264,000 over the projections decade.
Some job openings are expected to result from job growth, but even more openings will stem from the need to replace existing workers who leave.

 

Our Program

The Bookkeeping certificate program is designed for those who want to learn and practice bookkeeping skills and receive certification.

Responsibilities of a bookkeeper include analysis of transactions and inputting data into computerized accounting records, preparing cost or inventory reports, paying invoices, recording payroll, and adjusting and finalizing quarterly or annual reports.

Upon completion of the certificate program, you can opt to take a certified bookkeepers exam and become a nationally certified bookkeeper.

Certificate in Certified Bookkeeper Course Requirements

 

Contact Information

Professor Mary Speth, Accounting Coordinator
106 Meyer Hall
(910) 246-4129
spethm@sandhills.edu

Sources: The 2008-2009 Occupational Outlook Handbook produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.