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Scenario · Bookkeeping and Accounts

Complete a client's month end

You are a Bookkeeper in Bookkeeping and Accounts.

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The situation

What has happened

Bramble Lane Bakery is a sole trader with six staff, a cafe and a wholesale bread run. Its August month end, job JB-26-2210, is due to the client on 14 September and the usual bookkeeper is on leave. The bank feed has about forty uncoded transactions including supplier payments, card sales, a motor vehicle repair, a personal purchase on the business card and a bank fee. The accounts payable subsidiary ledger is 1,240 dollars higher than the control account, the payroll clearing account has carried a balance since July, and two customer receipts are sitting in undeposited funds. The Bookkeeping Manager will review the job on Friday.

Your brief. Complete the August month end for Bramble Lane Bakery under the Month-End Bookkeeping Procedure: code and match every transaction, reconcile every bank, clearing and control account, resolve or document the subsidiary ledger and payroll clearing differences, prepare the query list and the report pack and move the job to In review.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Coded transaction list with GST treatment
  • Reconciliation reports for bank, credit card and clearing accounts
  • Query list for the client
  • Month-end report pack and updated tracker entry

Documents to use

Systems to use

Jobs and Lodgement Tracker

Tracks every bookkeeping, payroll, activity statement, tax return and advisory job with its period, due date, preparer, reviewer and stage.

Client Register

Holds every client's entity details, relationship owner, services engaged, anti-money laundering risk rating and identity verification status.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Financial Services Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

FNSACC321Process financial transactions and extract interim reports
FNSACC322Administer subsidiary accounts and ledgers
FNSACC314Conduct business activities using a computerised accounting system
FNSINC311Work together in the financial services industry

Qualifications

FNS30322Certificate III in Accounts Administration
FNS40222Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Look for correct GST coding of the planted transactions (motor vehicle repair, bank fee, personal purchase as drawings), reconciliations that balance to the statements, the subsidiary ledger difference traced to a duplicated supplier invoice, the payroll clearing balance explained, and a query list that asks specific questions with amounts. The tracker must be updated with a useful reviewer note.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.