Advance your accounting career with this AAT level 3 and 4 qualification bundle. Industry recognised and trusted by employers worldwide.
AAT Level 3 and 4 Accounting
AAT062 / AAT063This bundle includes:
AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting
AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting
£1,508.00 £1,149.00
Course code: AAT062
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Course overview
This AAT Level 3 and 4 accounting bundle is the perfect way to take your skills to the next level.
The AAT Level 3 Diploma has been designed for those with a basic level of experience or knowledge of accounting who wish to develop their accounting career further.
You can then progress to the AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting, designed for experienced and knowledgeable accountants looking for higher-level expertise.
Why choose this course?
- Internationally recognised qualification – AAT qualifications are valued by employers globally and offer a clear route into professional accounting.
- In-demand skills – Accountants with AAT qualifications are highly sought after by businesses of all sizes and industries.
- Flexible learning – Study at your own pace, from the comfort of your home, with full tutor support along the way.
- UCAS points included – Completing the Level 3 Diploma can earn you up to 56 UCAS points, which may support entry into university.
- Exam option available – Add exams to your enrolment and we’ll take care of the booking and payment for you.
If you’re ready to move up in your accounting career, this bundle gives you everything you need. Respected qualifications, career-ready skills, and full flexibility to study your way!
- Understanding and implementing the organisational planning process.
- Use internal processes to enhance operational control.
- Use techniques to aid short-term and long-term decision-making.
- Analyse and report on business performance.
- Reporting frameworks that underpin financial reporting.
- Drafting statutory financial statements for limited companies.
- Drafting consolidated financial statements.
- Interpreting financial statements using ratio analysis.
- Roles and responsibilities of the accounting function within an organisation.
- Evaluating internal control systems.
- Evaluating an organisation’s accounting system and underpinning procedures.
- The impact of technology on accounting systems.
- Preparing tax computations for sole traders and partnerships.
- Preparing tax computations for limited companies.
- Preparing tax computations for the sale of capital assets by limited companies.
- The administrative requirements of the UK’s tax regime.
- The tax implications of business disposals.
- Understand tax relief, tax planning, and agent’s responsibilities in reporting taxation to HM Revenue and Customs.
- Principles and rules that underpin taxation systems.
- Calculating UK taxpayers’ total income.
- Calculating income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs) payable to UK taxpayers.
- Calculating capital gains tax by UK taxpayers.
- Principles of inheritance tax.
- Understand the audit and assurance framework.
- Importance of professional ethics.
- The planning process for audit and assurance.
- Reviewing and reporting findings.
- Preparing forecasts for cash receipts and payments.
- Preparing cash budgets and monitoring cash flows.
- The importance of managing finance and liquidity.
- Understand the way of raising finance and investing funds.
- Regulations and organisational policies that influence decisions in managing cash and finance.
- Relevant legislation and contract law that impacts the credit control environment.
- How information is used to assess credit risk and grant credit in compliance with organisational policies and procedures.
- Understand the organisation’s credit control processes for managing and collecting debts.
- Techniques available for collecting debts.
- Business types, structure, governance, and the legal framework in which they operate.
- Impact of the external and internal environments on business, their performance, and decisions.
- Understand how businesses and accounts comply with principles and professional ethics.
- The impact of new technologies in accounting and the risks associated with data security.
- Communicating information to stakeholders.
- Accounting principles underlaying financial accounts preparation.
- Principles of advanced double-entry bookkeeping.
- Implementing procedures for the acquisition and disposal of non-current assets.
- Prepare and record depreciation calculations.
- Record period end adjustments.
- Produce and extend a trial balance.
- Produce financial statements for sole traders and partnerships.
- Interpret financial statements using profitability ratios.
- Prepare accounting records from incomplete information.
- Purpose and use of management accounting within organisations.
- Use techniques required for dealing with costs.
- Attribute costs according to organisational requirements.
- Investigate deviations from budgets.
- Use spreadsheet techniques to provide management accounting information.
- Use management accounting techniques to support short-term decision-making.
- Principles of cash management.
- Legislation requirements relating to VAT.
- Calculate VAT.
- Review and verify VAT returns.
- Understand the principles of payroll.
- Report information within the organisation.
Awarding body
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has been established for over 30 years and is the world’s leading professional membership body for over 130,000 accounting professionals. AAT’s vocational qualifications are recognised internationally and by all chartered and certified accountancy bodies in the UK.
Once enrolled, you have up to two years to complete your studies. The course will take approximately 1605 hours to complete in total, of which 790 hours are proposed guided learning hours.
This course will be studied entirely via distance learning, meaning you will complete your learning either from home or a place that suits you.
Full tutor support will be available via email, so if you have any questions or need some guidance, your tutor will be here to help.
Your course materials will include a series of self-assessment exercises and tutor-marked questions to allow both yourself and your tutor to monitor your progress.
You will pay a one-off registration fee for each level you study which will give you access to the qualification for its lifetime, which is typically four to five years.
The membership fees for this bundle course are £228 for level 3 and £244 for level 4. Please note, you can break these costs down by paying for each level separately as and when you progress through the course.
We will send an email with a link to download the free Sage software.
The qualification is assessed through 13 tutor-marked assessments and 9 external exams in total, which you will complete at the end of your course.
This computer-based exam must be sat under controlled conditions at an external examination centre.
The exams will be available on-demand throughout the year, while the synoptic assessments are available on set dates throughout the year. Your tutor will be able to help you decide when you are ready to take the assessments.
Booking your assessments
You can choose to add your exams to your enrolment. If you choose this option, we will book and pay for your exams for you.
Our partner exam centre for students choosing to book their exams through us is based in Northamptonshire.
When choosing to add your exams to your enrolment, it is important to note that we are only able to book your exams at the specified centre in Northamptonshire, and therefore, you must be prepared to travel to that centre to complete your exam.
If you do not wish to have your assessments included with your enrolment, you will need to book and pay for these separately.
For a list of available assessment locations, view AAT approved venues.
Once you have successfully completed your tutor-marked assignments and exams, you will receive both your AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting and AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting from The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT).
FAQs
You must be 16 years old to enrol on this course, as well as have basic maths and IT skills. You will also need an internet connection to allow you to download the free software.
To sit your exams, you must join AAT as a student member, which will then give you access to their resources. If you add your exams to your enrolment, these are included within the cost. However, if you choose to book your exams separately, you must book and pay for these yourself.
For a list of available assessment locations, view AAT approved venues.
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