Level 3 Diploma in Accounting
The year that turns a bookkeeper into an accountant. Each unit is split into subsections with their own reading and their own knowledge check, and every question you get wrong comes back later in a different form until it sticks.
Twelve months of study, laid out in the order that makes it easiest.
Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
Take a set of records from trial balance to a finished set of accounts. Period end adjustments, depreciation, inventory, control accounts, sole trader and partnership statements, and incomplete records.
Management Accounting Techniques
Cost the work, absorb the overheads, decide with contribution, and build budgets you can flex. Includes variance analysis and reporting to managers.
Tax Processes for Businesses
VAT from registration to filing under Making Tax Digital, the special schemes, penalties and errors, plus payroll reporting duties and the ethics of tax work.
Business Awareness
How organisations are structured and governed, the external forces that move them, professional ethics in practice, and the technology and communication skills a finance team runs on.
Before you start
AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting, or solid bookkeeping experience. Comfortable double entry and confident arithmetic are assumed from day one.
About 12 months studying part time
Where it leads
- AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting
- Assistant accountant, finance officer or bookkeeper roles
- Level 3 or Level 4 accounting apprenticeship
- AAT bookkeeping membership (AATQB) after Level 3 bookkeeping units