Accounting and Bookkeeping Resume Template Pack: Accounting Professional, Bookkeeper and Client Work, New Graduate, and a Bullet-Writing Guide

Who it is for

Bookkeepers, accounting clerks, AP and AR specialists, staff accountants, payroll clerks and accounting assistants. Anyone in accounting and bookkeeping who wants to write or rebuild their own resume.

Not the right fit if

You want someone to write your resume for you (see our done-for-you resume rewrite), or you work outside accounting and bookkeeping: the templates and verbs are built for this field.

Why it is different

• Built for accounting and bookkeeping: the section order puts core skills by function where the people hiring look first.
• The guide starts from what accounting and bookkeeping readers check first, such as: the accounting functions you handled: accounts payable, receivable, payroll, reconciliations, month-end close, reporting or tax support. Example bullets are structures with [placeholders], never invented results.
• It also flags the field's common slips, for example: using "managed" or "owned" for a process you prepared or assisted with. One column, standard headings, nothing promised.

What is inside

• Resume template 1: Accounting Professional (Word). Clerks, specialists and staff accountants with in-house experience. Sections in order: Summary, Core Skills, Accounting Experience, Education and Credentials. One column, standard headings, no tables or text boxes.
• Resume template 2: Bookkeeper and Client Work (Word). Bookkeepers serving several businesses or clients. Sections in order: Summary, Client Work (Bookkeepers), Accounting Experience, Core Skills, Education and Credentials. One column, standard headings, no tables or text boxes.
• Resume template 3: New Graduate (Word). Accounting graduates and career changers whose education and skills lead. Sections in order: Summary, Education and Credentials, Core Skills, Accounting Experience. One column, standard headings, no tables or text boxes.
• Bullet-writing guide. 24 action verbs grouped by processing, review and control, reporting and close; 8 example bullet structures with [placeholders]; 3 summary structures; what readers in accounting and bookkeeping usually scan for; and 5 common mistakes.