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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Operate 10-key calculators, typewriters, and copy machines to perform calculations and produce documents.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Receive, record, and bank cash, checks, and vouchers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Code documents according to company procedures.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Perform financial calculations, such as amounts due, interest charges, balances, discounts, equity, and principal.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Perform general office duties, such as filing, answering telephones, and handling routine correspondence.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Access computerized financial information to answer general questions as well as those related to specific accounts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss31%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
80%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 78% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 40% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.