Delivery Method: This course will be delivered face to face over 2 evening per week, typically 6 hours per week. In addition to this, you will be required to undertake significant independent study each week in order to ensure you are successful. The required independent study will be 1 hour per 1 hour of face to face delivery.
AAT is greatly respected in the financial industry, and is designed to give you all the practical skills you need to build a career in finance. AAT qualifications are recognised all over the world, and are generally considered prerequisites for several accountancy positions.
The purpose of the AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting is to provide students with the specialist knowledge and skills required for progressing either to employment in an accounting or finance role, or to enable progression to further education.
What will I study?
This qualification covers a range of essential and higher-level accounting techniques and disciplines. Students will learn and develop skills needed for a range of financial processes, including maintaining cost accounting records, advanced bookkeeping and the preparation of financial reports and returns.
Within this qualification, you will complete 4 units:
Business Awareness - This unit provides students with an understanding of the business, its environment and the influences that this has on an organisation's structure, the role of its accounting function and its performance. Students will examine the purpose and types for businesses that exist and the rights and responsibilities of the key stakeholders, as well as gain an understanding of the importance of professional ethics and ethical management within the finance function.
Financial Accounting: Preparing financial statements - This unit provides students with the skills required to produce statements of profit or loss and statements for financial position for sole traders and partnerships, using a trial balance. Students will gain the double-entry bookkeeping skills needed to record financial transactions into an organisation's accounts using a manual bookkeeping system.
Management Accounting Techniques - This unit provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to understand the role of management accounting in an organisation, and how organisations use such information to aid decision making. Students will learn the principles that underpin management accounting methodology and techniques, how costs are handled in organisations and why organisations treat costs in different ways.
Tax Processes for Businesses - This unit explores tax processes that influence the daily operations of businesses and is designed to develop students' skills in understanding, preparing and submitting Value Added Tax (VAT) returns to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The unit provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to keep businesses, employers and clients compliant with laws and practices that apply to VAT and payroll.
How will I be assessed?
All AAT qualification are assessed via externally marked exams that are completed in our AAT exam centre. Within this qualification you will undertake 4 exams, 1 for each of the above units.
Entry requirements
Minimum of 4 GCSEs at grades A-C/4-9 (including maths and English) and a level 2 accountancy qualification, or significant experience of working in industry.
