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AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting

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.

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