Tresham

AAT Full time

Entry Requirements

Entry to the Level 2 Certificate & level 3 Diploma

• 5 x GCSEs at grade C or above including Maths and English
• Students must be confident in and be able to demonstrate the use of Microsoft Word and Windows based packages. Of particular importance is competency in the use of Microsoft Excel to the level of formatting and formula
• Students need to be willing to undertake Maths, English and IT assessments if required
• Interview by accounting tutors

Entry to the Level 4 Diploma

• Successful completion of the Level 3 Diploma
• Students must be confident in the use of Microsoft Word and Windows based packages
• Interview by accounting tutors

You will need to become a registered student with the AAT. When doing so you need to be aware of the following important extract from http://www.aat.org.uk/. Please make sure you review this site prior to interview:

Bankruptcy (also Debt Relief Orders) / Entering into an arrangement with creditors / Having a criminal conviction / Having a County Court Judgement is not necessarily a bar to registration, but we need to be sure of the suitability of our students to maintain public confidence in the accountancy profession. We require all students to declare these issues.

Content

The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) is the recognised professional body for accounting support staff. It was set up in 1980 and is sponsored by the 5 major UK accountancy bodies (ACCA, CIPFA, ICAEW, CIMA and ICAS).

Membership of the AAT provides interesting and varied opportunities for career development, job mobility and choice. Full members of the AAT are fully-qualified accounting technicians and may use the designated letters MAAT. There are over 120,000 members across 90 countries.

The level 2 Certificate & level 3 Diploma is taken in one year on a full time basis. The level 4 Diploma is taken in one year on a full time basis

Level 2 Certificate in Accounting

• Principles of recording and processing financial transactions
• Preparing and recording financial documentation
• Processing ledger transactions and extracting a trial balance
• Maintaining and reconciling the cash book
• Banking procedures
• Maintaining Petty Cash records
• Maintaining the journal
• Maintaining control accounts
• Work effectively in accounting and finance (project based on the workplace)
• Basic principles of costing
• Computerised Accounting

Level 3 Diploma in Accounting

• Principles of accounts preparation
• Extending the trial balance using accounting adjustments
• Accounting for fixed assets
• Preparing accounts for partnerships
• Preparing final accounts for sole traders
• Principles of cash management
• Principles of costing
• Principles of VAT including VAT returns
• Professional ethics in accounting and finance (project based on the workplace)
• Spreadsheet software

Level 4 Diploma in Accounting

• Principles of drafting financial statements
• Principles of budgeting
• Principles of managing financial performance
• Principles of internal control & evaluating accounting systems (project based on the workplace)
• Personal tax
• Business tax

Attendance is everything on the course; if you miss a lesson you can miss an entire subject, i.e. if you think you cannot achieve at least 95% attendance (ideally 100%) then this isn't the course for you.

Learners may only continue with the next level having passed relevant assessments and exams. An interview will also be required.

Assessment

• Computer based assessments (CBA)
• Project / case study

Progression

Membership of the AAT provides interesting and varied opportunities for career development, job mobility and choice. Full members of the AAT are fully-qualified accounting technicians and may use the designated letters MAAT. There are over 120,000 members across 90 countries.

This education and training scheme is practical and relevant. It is divided into units of competence where each unit covers the standards required for specific accounting activities. Because of this the qualification has always been highly regarded and respected by Industry.

Successful completion of a unit will demonstrate to employers exactly what an individual can do and credit is given by AAT for each unit as soon as it is completed. Units are assessed by computer based assessments (CBA) and formal written projects.

The Level 4 Diploma also gives certain exemptions for the qualifications of the sponsoring bodies (e.g. ACCA) and thus provides the opportunity for further career development. Recent students have also used the Level 4 Diploma as an exemption for up to 2 years of a degree course.

This fulltime version of the course is an excellent way of achieving a highly valued qualification at level 4 in just 2 years.

Further Information

For further information please contact:

Mike Day
Accounting Programme Co-ordinator
mday@tresham.ac.uk
Tel: 01536 413057

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