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Summary: A bookkeeper is responsible for keeping records for small businesses, recording all financial transactions and keeping the company budget balanced. Understand the job of a bookkeeper with helpful information from a practicing CPA in this free video on finance jobs.
Miranda Chook is a CPA with expertise in international operations. She has held executive positions with both publicly listed and privately held companies. In addition to her finance...read more
"Bookkeepers help small businesses keep track of their transactions and prepare basic financial statements. Bookkeepers also help companies pay their bills, pay their employees and collect from their customers. Bookkeepers have educational experience as well as work experience to prepare journal entries during the month and post to sub ledgers and general ledgers and to do the close every month. So for businesses that are relatively small in terms of volume of transactions and relatively straightforward and non-complex types of transactions and financing. So for smaller companies that don't have a high volume of transactions and have relatively straightforward and non-complex types of transactions, take advantage of bookkeepers work and education experience to help out with the accounting."
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