How to become an Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerk
Official title: Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerks
Accounting and bookkeeping clerks record and calculate original transaction documents. Cashiers handling cash receipts and payments are also included.
Main tasks
- Record, compile and keep original transaction documents
- Enter accounts and vouchers in computer accounting software, and prepare accounting reports such as cash receipts and payments, accounts receivable and accounts payable
- Count cash and issue cheques according to transaction or accounting vouchers; handle deposits and withdrawals and reconcile cash records
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: accounting and taxation (0411). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 10, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 3, five-year junior college (五專) 3. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Accounting clerical work. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 149 會計事務. Tested at grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$503,000 a year
- Demand for Clerical support jobs is projected at about 1,305,000 in 2024 and about 1,324,000 in 2030. (+1.5%)
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerk?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Accounting clerical work.
How much does an Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerk earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$503,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is an Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerk a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 1.5% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of an Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerk?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026