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Accountant / Bookkeeper — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks · Financial Examiners · Treasurers and Controllers · Tax Preparers · Financial Managers · Budget Analysts · Credit Analysts · Personal Financial Advisors
In the official classification#
Accountants and Auditors
Fit with this page: broader than this page
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 3: medium preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 13-2011.00 (Accountants and Auditors). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- PersuasionImportant
- Service OrientationImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- NegotiationImportant
Knowledge
- Economics and AccountingVery important
- English LanguageVery important
- MathematicsImportant
- Law and GovernmentImportant
- Administration and ManagementImportant
- Customer and Personal ServiceImportant
Work activities
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Analyzing Data or InformationVery important
- Processing InformationVery important
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with StandardsVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
Abilities
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Inductive ReasoningVery important
- Mathematical ReasoningVery important
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Written ExpressionVery important
Essential skills
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Active ListeningVery important
- WritingVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- SpeakingImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 6 task judgements are for: 3 backed by a verified event, 3 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.