Students should choose to study the Level 1 Award in Bookkeeping if they wish to develop an understanding of the basics of manual bookkeeping.
Students completing this qualification may wish to pursue careers in finance or business in either the private or public sectors.
This qualification may be combined with the Level 1 Award in Business Skills to lay a strong foundation for further study with AAT in either accountancy or bookkeeping.
This qualification will usually take around 2-3 months to complete, but this will depend on the study method and course timetable.
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Our distance learning programme allows you to acquire all relevant knowledge from specialists at the comfort of your own home.
Our distance learning programme allows you to acquire all relevant knowledge from specialists at the comfort of your own home.
The session begins with a lecture delivered by a tutor and moves on to discussions and group activities, ensuring you understand the material.
If you are a student with Sepera Membership, log in to your account before you buy a course or webinar to get a 10% discount.
Our distance learning programme allows you to acquire all relevant knowledge from specialists at the comfort of your own home.
The session begins with a lecture delivered by a tutor and moves on to discussions and group activities, ensuring you understand the material.
This qualification will particularly suit those students who have had minimal work experience or those who need some additional support to progress. This may include younger students seeking tangible and finance-specific skills, adults seeking to validate their existing skills to enter into or progress in their careers, or students who would like to test their abilities before progressing further with AAT.
This qualification may also interest those who are self-employed or working in small businesses and wish to do their own bookkeeping.
This qualification covers a range of skills and the relevant supporting knowledge in one mandatory unit:
Students completing this qualification will develop an understanding of the role of the bookkeeper, including the need to produce timely and accurate work and to follow ethical principles.
Students will learn underpinning theory including how to identify assets, liabilities, income, expenses, capital profit or loss, and the differences between trading for cash and trading on credit.
Students will also develop the skills to process customer and supplier transactions, enter receipts and payments into the cash book and check amounts against the bank statement in preparation for the bank reconciliation. Students will be introduced to the dual effect of transactions.
This is a fundamental underpinning concept for double-entry bookkeeping and will support students who go on to study
bookkeeping at Level 2.
AAT does not set any entry requirements for this qualification.
However, for the best chance of success, we recommend that students begin their studies with a good standard of English and maths.
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.
The skills developed by studying this qualification will give students a solid base from which to seek employment with greater confidence or enable them to progress to the next level of learning.
The skills developed in this qualification can lead to employment in junior or supporting administrative roles in companies across a wide range of sectors, for example, as a:
The skills developed in this qualification may also underpin those developed further in the following Level 2 qualifications:
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