

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.