AAT Levels 2, 3 and 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting package

** This course is also available as part of our 'Head Start with Work Experience programme. Contact us for more information. **

Want to become an accountant? Want a Career with Exciting Prospects?

This is the ultimate AAT training package for amazing career prospects. It will take you from no accounting knowledge to becoming a qualified AAT Accountant and is ideal for career changers and experienced people wishing to progress to a higher level accountancy career.

Every stage through AAT Level 2, AAT Level 3 and AAT Level 4 you will learn accountancy through easily achievable bite-size stepped learning. Level 2 will deliver a solid foundation of knowledge. At Level 3 your studies will extend deeper into accountancy and include ethical practices. Level 4 moves into the managerial side of financial processes within the finance industry. Study AAT, the UK's leading professional body and you will join an exclusive group of UK and international students who have a lifetime accounting career ahead. Your skills will be recognised in businesses worldwide.

Important benefits of bespoke learning style delivery

• Flexible learning AAT courses to meet your commitments. You control when, how, and where you learn and set your own pace of study – We support at the pace you set.
• Kaplan hard copy study textbooks & exam kit books
• Optimum learning is balanced learning. With Gold Edge you benefit from learning in different ways to increase the depth of your understanding. You have the opportunity to study manually from the Kaplan study textbooks and exam kit books included in your course package. In addition, you will study through recorded or live tutor led lectures. Your third method of study is online via our extensive interactive online learning platform. Here you can learn and constantly test your understanding as you learn. Your fourth method of learning is through your one to one coaching support and 7 days a week technical question tutor support. Each of these methods of learning allow you to use different skills to study and absorb bookkeeping and accountancy skills. Collectively, this delivers a deeper and broader understanding than you would get from an other provider.
• Recorded & Live online classroom. We offer live classroom sessions in the day and evening for The AAT Levels 2, 3 and 4 qualifications.
• Online interactive content.
• Four-stage revision programme. As every lesson has a beginning middle and end known as overviewing the topic, followed by formative learning and concluded with summative assessment. The full study of each individual unit of the AAT Level 2 foundation certificate, AAT Level 3 Diploma and AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma courses also have two stages of knowledge building. The learning phase and the exam ready phase.
  
  • Our unique four-stages of revision firstly tests your depth of understanding to ensure it is sufficient. Secondly, we transform your ability to answer questions as you learn to completing the very different exam type questions. For the third stage we give you live/recorded exam preparation lectures and finally, the fourth stage is practice, practice, practice with mock exams. Our high pass rates are not achieved by chance, they are designed into every element of each AAT qualification that we deliver.

We're proud of our students' exceptionally high completion rates of 98% for Level 2, 95% for Level 3, and 92% for Level 4. The AAT National Average is 75.10%, 58.90%, and 63%, respectively.

What will I study in the AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting, AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting and AAT level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting package?

There are 4 modules to complete in the Level 2 qualification. At the end of each module you will sit an exam as follows:

• Introduction to Bookkeeping - 1 exam (90 mins)

• Principles of Bookkeeping Controls - 1 exam (90 mins)

• Principles of Costing - 1 exam (90 mins)

• The Business Environment Synoptic Assessment- 1 exam (120 mins)

There are 4 modules to complete at Level 3. At the end of each module you will sit an exam as follows:

• Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements - 1 exam

• Management Accounting Techniques - 1 exam

• Tax Processes for Businesses - 1 exam

• Business Awareness - 1 exam

There are 5 modules to complete at Level 4. At the end of each module you will sit an exam as follows:

• Mandatory Units:

  Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting Q2022

  • Applied Management Accounting - 1 exam

  • Drafting and Interpreting Financial Statements - 1 exam

  • Internal Accounting Systems and Control

  Choose 2 of 5 options listed below:

  • Business Tax - 1 exam

  • Personal Tax - 1 exam

  • Audit and Assurance - 1 exam

  • Cash and Financial Management - 1 exam

  • Credit and Debt Management - 1 exam

We deliver a bespoke and personal learner journey that ensures your timetables are set to meet your availability and resources are offered to work with your own personal learning style. We are advocates of stress-free learning so you gain the maximum knowledge from each learning session.

Our online courses offer a varied selection of online learning resources at each level that fully covers the AAT syllabus whilst suiting the learning styles of auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, or reflective learners.

In addition to our expert tutor support that is available 7 days a week, we offer all students the opportunity to learn from our ‘key to success’ coaching. The coaching techniques you will learn will help you gain essential, practical skills that will not only simplify what you are learning but also increase your ability to learn.

Those essential skills are:

• Develop a positive learning attitude
• Set personalised and achievable targets
• How to improve recall
• Effective Study Time Management

Key Features:

• Course completion times, 12 months for AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting and 15 months for AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting, 18 months for the AAT level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting - Factored into these timeframes is plenty of extra time to ensure stress free learning.

• When you enrol you become one of the Gold Edge high achieving students. How do we know, it's simple. You have seen our pass rates. They are achieved by students just like you whose study plans were based on how many hours they personally had available plus they were allowed to learn how they learn best.

• Easy access 24/7 study via our learning portal – Expert tutor support available 7 days a week.

• Over 200 AAT assessment centres across the UK means you can study from any location knowing you are close to your local centre for exams.

• As the complexity rises in each of the qualifications, the materials, online and manual, plus all support raises at the same pace. We make sure as you progress to higher levels, the ease and simplicity of learning remains the same regardless of the method used - recorded classroom that are viewable multiple times - invitations to live classroom – key topic animation & interactive online learning – Printed materials supplied are hardcopy Kaplan books for manual learning and revision.

• Computer based online exams fee and one off AAT memberships fee are additional costs.

• Average completion time based on 6-8 hours of study a week for our online courses are 30 weeks for Level 2 and 34 weeks for accounting Level 3 plus 34 weeks for Level 4 - These are average timeframes that can vary based on the speed with which you learn and prior knowledge.

• Fast response – coaching and tutor support ensures continuity in your learning.

• You can pay in full at enrolment or enrol via a number of interest free instalment plans

• Enrolment 365 days a year on all AAT qualifications.

If you want to begin an AAT distance learning accountancy or bookkeeping course, this complete AAT Accountancy package is the ideal place to start.

There are no entry requirements. It is expected that you have good basic maths skills and a good command of the English language.

To study you will require access to a PC or Laptop. The learning platforms are both Windows and Mac compatible.

Whilst the lectures, e-books and interactive e-learning are delivered online. We also supply a combination of hardcopy Kaplan books and or downloadable workbooks and question banks for balanced learning.

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

• Purchase/Sales Ledger Supervisor
• Accounts Payable Supervisor
• AAT Accountant
• Accounts Department Head
• Finance Director.