Engineering

My main responsibilities were to maintain the A/R and A/P and General Ledgers and to take everything to trial balance every month for the company secretary. I was the last generation to formally use double entry book-keeping in commercial practice and the first to use computerised accounting systems.

• Maintained the sales day book and A/R ledger

• Maintained the purchase day book and A/P  ledger

• Prepared monthly trial balance

• Took the monthly stock take of WIP and physical goods

• Maintained the job costing system

• Prepared and issued the payroll to all staff

• Prepared the quarterly VAT returns

• Assisted in establishing the companies first computerised accounting system (Pegasus)

• Good stock keeping allowed the company to reduce stock levels

• Accurate monitoring of WIP allowed the company to improve its invoicing timing and subsequent cash management and working capital.

• Assisted in the introduction of Kalamazoo accounting system prior to the introduction of the computer system.