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COURSE OVERVIEW
The Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting offers technical training in accounting and is ideal for anyone wishing to pursue or progress their career in accountancy or finance.
The purpose of the Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting is to enhance the skills developed from the Level 3 Diploma in Accounting, enabling students to maximise opportunities in their current or new employment. By studying for this qualification, students will acquire professional accountancy and finance skills that will be useful throughout their careers, including:
- drafting financial statements for limited companies
- having the knowledge and skills to use complex management accounting techniques
- the ability to analyse accounting systems and their associated controls
- having knowledge and skills in specialist accountancy and finance subjects
The Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting covers high-level accounting and finance topics and tasks. Students will look at and become comfortable with a wide range of financial management skills and applications, and will gain competencies in drafting financial statements for limited companies, recommending accounting systems, strategies and constructing and presenting complex financial management accounting reports. Students will also specialise in business and personal tax.
Attendance is required one day per week.
The units covered in this qualification are:
- Applied Management Accounting
- Drafting and Interpreting Financial Statements
- Internal Accounting Systems and Controls
- Business Tax
- Personal Tax
FURTHER INFORMATION
Students who have completed the Level 3 Diploma in Accounting, or equivalent accounting apprenticeship.
Professional accountants work at the very heart of a business and are expected to be able to communicate information clearly and appropriately to a given audience, with this in mind, any applicants GCSEs in English and Maths at level 4 or above. Functional skills English and Maths at level 2 is also acceptable.
Once qualified, and having met AAT’s criteria, students can apply for full AAT membership, which will allow them to use the designatory letters MAAT after their name.
However, the primary and most important outcome of the Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting is that it can lead to a wide variety of well-paid accountancy and finance jobs, some of which include:
- Professional Accounting Technician
- Assistant Auditor
- Assistant Management Accountant
- Commercial Analyst
- Payroll Manager
- Senior Bookkeeper
- Senior Financial Officer
- Accounts Payable and Expenses Supervisor
- Assistant Financial Accountant
- Cost Accountant
- Fixed Asset Accountant
- Indirect Tax Manager
- Payments and Billing Manager
- Senior Fund Accountant
- Senior Insolvency Administrator
- Tax Supervisor
- VAT Accountant
In addition to this, students could enrol with ACCA or CIMA and become a fully chartered accountant.
Students must successfully achieve 5 units in order to pass this qualification.
All assessments are:
- Set and marked by AAT
- Computer based
- time-limited
- taken in your normal classroom
All exams are human marked and will have a 6 week turnaround on results.
The two non-mandatory units offered are Business and Personal Tax.
Course fee: £2,573 (including your first sitting of each exam)
In addition to your course fee, you will be required to pay a one-off registration fee to the AAT of £244
You will also need to purchase a text book for each unit.
You should bring:
- Pens
- Paper
- Calculator
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