AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting

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The AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting will advance your accounting career and is the natural progression from the level 2 Certificate in Accounting. Whilst studying the AAT accounting level 3 you will automatically complete the Level 3 Certificate in Bookkeeping course.

From the outset of your distance learning studies with Gold Edge Training, your level 3 AAT course support, resources, delivery & timetables will be tailored to meet your personal goals and ambitions.

Our bespoke programmes embrace your individuality as a learner. We support your natural style of learning to ensure it flourishes and drives the successful outcome of your studies.

Our fusion of learning materials and learning methods, guarantee equal learning opportunities to all students regardless of their natural learning style preference. Our AAT courses meet the full requirements of auditory, visual, kinaesthetic and reflective learning ensuring stress free, optimum study for all. Using the right resources to meet your preferred learning style will halve the complexity of what you learn.

In addition to our expert tutor support, every student is offered individual ‘key to success’ coaching, which is another unique dimension to achieving exam success. For our students, ‘key to success’ coaching is an essential support throughout their studies and a strong contributory factor in their exam success.

We also understand that knowing how to study effectively is not a natural process for many. Likewise, being able to learn at optimum levels, in all lessons, is a skill few people are born with. ‘Key to success’ coaching corrects this by supporting learners to understand and develop their own natural ability to learn.

Proud to have above National Average pass rates: Level 2, 95% (NA - 75.10%). Level 3, 80% (NA - 58.90%). Level 4, 85% (NA - 63%).

AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting Syllabus

Building on the skills and techniques you developed throughout Level 2, the AAT Level 3 Certificate in Accounting will enable you to understand and perform more complex accounting processes, such as advanced double-entry bookkeeping, implementing procedures for acquisition and disposal of non-current assets, preparing, and recording depreciation calculations, and more!

The 4 modules that you’ll cover throughout this course, are:

• Unit 1 - Business Awareness
• Unit 2 – Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
• Unit 3 - Management Accounting Techniques
• Unit 4 – Tax Processes for Businesses

Average course completion time – 12-15 months

These modules will teach you how to make provisions for doubtful and irrecoverable debts, help you understand the importance of ethics in the working environment and show you how to reconcile ledgers with the cash book. You’ll also learn how to analyse variances and use spreadsheets to manage and record information in the accounting environment.

Live Online Classes - Your tutor will offer live sessions online to discuss topics in more detail, giving you the opportunity to ask questions in real time and receive answers instantly, solidifying your study experience.

Revision Classes & Exam Prep Sessions –To help students have the best chances of passing their exams, we have developed a series of regular exam preparation sessions. In these sessions, your Tutor will take you through specific topics throughout the modules, in an online classroom session, and run revisions sessions to cover entire mock exams and explain the answers.

AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting Exam Details

Your personal AAT Tutor will run your live online classes so that you get the benefits of learning in a college class without leaving your home. Live online classes cover revision sessions and practice papers on the units you need to pass your exams such as Business Awareness, Management Accounting Techniques and Audit and Assurance.

There are 4 computer-based exams in total, which will need to be taken at your local AAT test centre.

Exams

• Business Awareness
• Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
• Management Accounting Techniques
• Tax Processes for Businesses

The exam format includes multiple-choice questions, selecting answers from a drop-down menu and typing numbers and text into form fields.

When you are ready to sit your exams, you will be required to sit your exam at a suitable AAT approved assessment venue. We can help find the closest one to you. Exam fees vary from centre to centre.

Exam fees are not included in the course cost.

Key benefits of bespoke learning style delivery:Flexibility

You control your speed of learning – We support at the same pace. Our programmes are designed to be studied anywhere and at any time. 15 minutes to spare? Use it to prepare for the next lesson or recap the last. These study snippets will increase your learning capacity during the next full lesson.

Kaplan hard copy study textbooks & exam kit books

Optimum learning style study requires a balance of different resources and different learning methods. How you learn online is different to how you learn from a book. When you learn from multiple resources and methods, your depth of understanding increases, which strengthens your ability to recall.

Live online classroom

We offer live classroom sessions in the day and evening for levels 2 and 3. Watching live lessons best suits auditory and visual learners. The live sessions are also recorded to meet personal availability and the learning style of kinaesthetic and reflective learners. Learning how to adapt resources to suit how you learn best will enhance your learning experience and increase your knowledge absorption. All recordings can be multi-watched for deeper understanding.

Online interactive content

All students, based on their natural learning style, will prefer or lead with different learning resources. We offer a full online range of workbooks, animations, interactive questions and videos in addition to the live classroom and hardcopy books. Amongst the online resources you will find PowerPoint presentations, additional manual question banks and practice exams.

Four-stage revision programme

Our programmes leave nothing to chance in achieving your success. Learning a subject is not sufficient to pass exams. Study knowledge needs to transfer to exam ready knowledge. Our four-stage revision programme for AAT level 2 of:

1. Green light testing to check depth of understanding

2. Completing circa 200 manual exam kit questions

3. Live exam preparation session and finally

4. Exam practice papers all ensure you are at optimum exam level when entering your exam.

   Follow our programme, and you will join our high achieving student community.

Study with your peers

Chat to other students in our active student community. Peer support is an added benefit to making study easy and fun.

The AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting Qualification is suitable:

For people who work in accounts for a minimum of 3 years and would like a formal qualification in the field. You will require a good working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping.

For people who have already studied the level 2 AAT.

This course is perfect if you are looking to gain promotion in a career in Accountancy with a qualification from an award-winning body.

You must have already passed the level 2 or have 3 or more years accounting experience. You will require a good knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping to study the AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting.

This qualification will prepare you for entry-level accountancy roles to kick start your career. It delivers a solid foundation in accounting and finance, covering areas such as double entry bookkeeping to basic costing principles.

The kind of roles you would be able to apply for include:

• Accounts Administrator
• Purchase/Sales Ledger Clerk
• Accounts Payable Clerk
• Accounts Supervisor
• Trainee Accountant
• Trainee Finance officer