Studying this qualification will give you the confidence in manual bookkeeping and you will understand how tasks are automated through accounting software.
This will support you in entering employment and will improve your career prospects. The qualification can help you obtain a financial administration role, assist you in a promotion or give you the skills to support financial processes within your own business.
This qualification will usually take around 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 is suitable for those already working in finance, those returning to work after a break or those wishing to change careers.
The qualification is open to those who are working and those who are not currently in employment. It also offers progression for students who have started studying accountancy and bookkeeping with AAT.
Manual bookkeeping underpins all accountancy and finance roles. Studying this qualification will help students to develop a strong foundation of bookkeeping knowledge and skills needed to work in accountancy and finance or to go on to study higher-level bookkeeping or accountancy.
Students completing this qualification will be able to confidently carry out typical bookkeeping transactions and tasks.
Students will also gain an understanding of how typical tasks are automated through the use of accounting software.
This qualification comprises two mandatory units:
A student completing this qualification will develop practical accountancy skills in the double-entry bookkeeping system and in using associated documents and processes.
Students will be able to check transactions for accuracy, make entries in appropriate books and ledgers, and calculate sales invoices and credit notes.
They will also cover more complex levels of bookkeeping procedures, including dealing with VAT, reconciliation and trial balances, and will develop their understanding of the relationship between the various accounting records.
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 enable a student to seek employment with confidence and/or to progress to the next level of learning. A student completing this qualification will develop the underpinning skills required in all accountancy and finance roles.
They will use bookkeeping skills to confidently perform accounting transactions and understand how to process financial information in accordance with set procedures and schedules.
This qualification can lead to further study in bookkeeping or accountancy or to employment as:
This qualification is not part of an apprenticeship.
The government and other agencies offer funding, financial support and loans for people undertaking training
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