The bookkeeper handles the day-to-day financials of a small business. He or she is involved with creating invoices, paying bills, and balancing bank statements. The bookkeeper hands off the more complex tasks of payroll, depreciation, and creating financial statements to other finance department roles, such as payroll administrator and accounting manager.

Main Work Tasks

To See

Create and release purchase orders for normal receiving at the company or for direct delivery to customers.

Process Purchases

Create and adjust purchase invoices, post payments, and apply payments to invoices.

Manage Payables

Record a customer request in a sales quote and send it to the customer for acceptance.

Process Inquiries and Quotes

Create sales orders for items or services as requested by customers.

Enter and Validate Sales Orders

Release sales orders for normal shipping from the company, or for direct delivery to customers.

Process Sales

Create sales invoices, post receipts, and apply receipts to invoices.

Manage Receivables

Manage bank accounts.

Manage Cash

Report statistics on your company's trade with companies in other EU countries/regions.

Report Intrastat

Related Task

To See

Fill in and post general journals and recurring journals.

Work with General Journals

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