Financial office assistants are employed as entry-level bookkeepers, free-lance bookkeepers, business owners, accounting clerks and data entry clerks. BC Work Futures is predicting approximately 5090 bookkeeping openings, 8180 accounting clerk openings, and 5150 data entry openings by 2008, due to retirements in these large occupational groups.

During this program, instructors will guide students through modules covering everything from Bookkeeping to Office Procedures to Computer Skills. Upon completion of this program, students will be proficient in payroll accounting, recording business transactions and printing queried reports by using Simply Accounting and QuickBooks, creating and managing simple databases through Access, and preparing a manual set of books from source documents. Near the end of the program, students will gain valuable job search skills and complete a practicum, further enhancing their employability.