You should choose the Level 3 Certificate in Bookkeeping to focus solely on developing your bookkeeping skills in order to progress quickly to employment or to do use on becoming a bookkeeping. You can start with this qualification before progressing to complete the Level 3 Diploma in Accounting in order to gain a wider knowledge of accountancy.
This qualification will usually take around 2 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.
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.
The Level 3 Certificate in Bookkeeping develops existing skills and knowledge to an advanced level for anyone wishing to pursue a career in bookkeeping. This qualification offers progression for students who already have bookkeeping knowledge, either to gain employment in a bookkeeping role or to progress to further study.
This qualification is suitable for those who have completed the Level 2 Certificate in Bookkeeping and may help students already working in a bookkeeping role to progress by offering them formal recognition of their skills.
This qualification comprises two mandatory units:
A student completing this qualification will develop the skills needed for financial processes including accounting principles and concepts, advanced bookkeeping and preparing financial statements.
They will also understand business issues regarding payroll and value-added tax (VAT) (which may be known by another name in other countries).
All of this will be learned in the context of the ethical issues that a bookkeeper may encounter in their professional life.
AAT does not set any entry requirements for this qualification.Â
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.
Ideally, students should have completed the Level 2 Certificate in Bookkeeping.Â
Prior attainment of other business or finance studies would also be beneficial.
The bookkeeping 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.
The skills developed while studying this qualification could lead to employment as:
This qualification is not part of an apprenticeship.
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