AAT Diploma for Accounting
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The AAT Accounting Qualification is the leading qualification for accounting technicians. It's the main requirement for full AAT membership and could mean a salary increase of 15%.
Starting salaries for trainees are in the range of £10,000 - £19,000. Once qualified and with experience, an accounting technician may earn from around £12,500 - £29,000.
The AAT Accounting Qualification gives you the skills to work in a wide range of accounting and finance positions. The course is extremely flexible and open to all, regardless of your age, experience or qualifications. Most people study for AAT part-time whilst working. Accounting technicians work in all areas of finance. They usually start working in a support role within a firm of accountants, or in the accounts or finance departments of organisations in industry, commerce or the public sector. However, there are opportunities for progression with experience. Those with more experience may become self-employed, providing a variety of accountancy and taxation services to a range of small to medium sized businesses.
In many larger organisations, accounting technicians work alongside members of chartered accountancy bodies. In smaller organisations, they may be the only financially trained member of staff.
Course assessments on the Diploma pathway are simulations based on the workplace, which is useful whether or not you work in finance.
Each pathway is split into 3 levels. Each level consists of several units. The levels are qualifications in their own right, and completing all three levels leads to the full AAT Accounting Qualification.
1. AAT Level 2 Certificate for Accounting Technicians
At this level you'll start to develop your skills in doubleentry bookkeeping and gain a grasp of management and administrative processes. You'll learn how to use manual and computerised accounting systems and how to work with purchase, sales and general ledgers.
Skills learned:
Administrative processes. Double entry bookkeeping. Accounting systems. Purchase, sales and general ledgers. The salary per annum range from £12,500 to £22,500.
2. AAT Level 3 Certificate for Accounting Technicians
This level introduces more complex accounting tasks, like preparing final accounts for sole traders and partnerships. You'll also learn how to maintain cost accounting records and preparation of reports and returns. Approximately equivalent to an A Level/Highers.
Skills learned:
- Financial accounting Exam
- Recording and analysing costs and revenues
- Operating a cash management and credit control system
- Professional ethics for Accounting Technicians
- Supplying and presenting financial data
- Using a computerised accounting system
- Contributing to a safe and effective working environment in an accounting team
3. AAT Level 4 Diploma for Accounting Technicians
Here you'll learn how to draft financial statements for limited companies, perform complex management accounting tasks and develop your own management skills. This level includes a choice of special units, which means that you can focus on the areas of accounting that suit you. Approximately equivalent to the 1st year of an honours degree.
Skills learned:
Complex management accounting tasks and general management skills. Drafting financial statements. Specialisation in specific subject areas. The salary per annum range from £15,500 to £28,000.
- Managing systems and people in the accounting environment Skills test/project
- Drafting financial statements Exam
- Professional ethics for Accounting Technicians
- Management accounting Exam
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List of available courses
AAT full member (MAAT)
Bookkeeping - Institute of Certified Bookkeepers
Level I: Certificate in Basic Bookkeeping
Level II: Certificate in Computerised Bookkeeping
Level III Diploma in Bookkeeping (Manual or Computerised)
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