description of bookkeeping job?

Answer 1

According to the Federal Dictionary of Occupational titles, a bookkeeper....

Keeps records of financial transactions for establishment, using
calculator and computer: Verifies, allocates, and posts details
of business transactions to subsidiary accounts in journals or
computer files from documents, such as sales slips, invoices,
receipts, check stubs, and computer printouts. Summarizes details
in separate ledgers or computer files and transfers data to
general ledger, using calculator or computer. Reconciles and
balances accounts. May compile reports to show statistics, such
as cash receipts and expenditures, accounts payable and
receivable, profit and loss, and other items pertinent to
operation of business. May calculate employee wages from plant
records or time cards and prepare checks for payment of wages.
May prepare withholding, Social Security, and other tax reports.
May compute, type, and mail monthly statements to customers. Maybe designated according to kind of records of financial
transactions kept, such as Accounts-Receivable Bookkeeper
(clerical), and Accounts-Payable Bookkeeper (clerical). May
complete records to or through trial balance.

Answer 2

You would be responsible for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Probably also maintenance of checking accounts, reconciliations, etc. Not unusual to also handle correspondence, filing, and quarterly reports.

Answer 3

sometimes payroll (wages) as well.