AAT Diploma in Accounting - Level 3


Start:
September
Location:
Balliol Road Campus
Level:
3

Course Details

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.

  • Understand business types, structure and governance and the legal framework in which they operate.
  • Understand the impact of the external and internal environments on business, their performance and decisions.
  • Understand how businesses and accounts comply with principles of professional ethics.
  • Understand the impact of new technologies in accounting and the risks associated with data security.
  • Communicate information to stakeholders.
  • Understand the accounting principles underlaying final accounts preparation.
  • Understand the principles of advanced double-entry bookkeeping.
  • Implement procedures for the acquisition and disposal of non-current assets.
  • Prepare and record depreciation calculations.
  • Record period end adjustments.
  • Produce and extend the trial balance.
  • Produce financial statements for sole traders and partnerships.
  • Interpret financial statements using profitability ratios.
  • Prepare accounting records from incomplete information.
  • Understand the 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.
  • Understand principles of cash management.
  • Understand legislation requirements relating to VAT.
  • Calculate VAT.
  • Review and verify VAT returns.
  • Understand principles of payroll.
  • Report information within the organisation.
AAT Diploma in Accounting - Level 3
12 - 18 months
  • AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting
  • Accounts assistant
  • Accounts payable clerk
  • Audit trainee
  • Credit controller
  • Payroll administrator/supervisor
  • Practice bookkeeper
  • Finance assistant
  • Tax assistant
  • Accounts payable and expenses supervisor

Entry Requirements

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