How to Learn Basic Computer Skills to Be a Night Auditor

Learning basic computer skills is easy.

The job of night auditor is often used to mean an employee at a hotel who does a combination of accounting and front desk duties. The reason for this job is that many hotels close their business day around midnight, when the regular accounting staff is gone. The night auditor also performs some front desk duties to help avoid the cost of too many late night employees. Thanks to property management software, a night auditor needs only basic computer and accounting skills.

Things You'll Need

• Computer

Instructions

1. Familiarize yourself with how to use a mouse. The right button on a mouse is used to click on buttons to make or accept a choice and the left mouse button brings up different menus depending on where you click.

2. Find out what each of the buttons on the keyboard does. The keyboard is like a typewriter except for a few special keys. Learn what each key does by testing it out. The most important keys for the job include the "tab" key, which will move you between fields in a form, and the number pad on the right side of the keyboard that allows for the quick entering of numerical data.

3. Get to know some basic software packages like Microsoft Excel that use mathematical formulas. You can get video training for a variety of common software titles at many libraries and websites.

Resources

• Lynda: Video Training