About the course

Students will develop an understanding of a broad range of issues relevant to the sector, including:

• Fundamentals of financial accounting - an understanding of elementary financial principles, concepts and practices and how this content links to relevant accounting, bookkeeping and business mathematics requirements.
• professionalism and ethics - an understanding of professional conduct and responsibilities in the workplace and ethical dilemmas for the individual, organisation and profession.
• data driven innovation and analytics and design thinking - an awareness of key requirements of a data governance framework and understand the main contemporary visualisation tools and when they are best used to support decision making.

In addition to the core content, each student will also complete at least one module of occupation- specific content.

The specialism available in the T Level in Accounting is Assistant accountant.

As part of the course, students will complete a minimum of 9 weeks working with an employer on an industry placement.