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New Accounts Clerks
Keeps a business's money records accurate: bills, payments, payroll and accounts.
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Bookkeepers and accounting clerks record what a business earns and spends and keep its books balanced. Billing clerks send out bills, payroll clerks make sure everyone is paid right, and bill collectors follow up on late payments. Others work in banks and insurance companies as credit and loan clerks, new accounts clerks, brokerage clerks, and insurance claims and policy clerks. Most of the work is at a computer, with numbers, spreadsheets and accounting software.
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The guide checks the courses against your plan, with things to try each year. Free account needed.
High school courses that build toward it
- Entrepreneurship · Career and Technical
Builds sales and marketing, which this job uses.
- Pre-Algebra · Math
Builds math, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds working with customers and clients, which this job uses.
- Government and Economics · Social Studies
Builds law and government, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
New Accounts Clerks on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.