AAT ADVANCE DIPLOMA – LEVEL 3
Summary of the Course
The AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting covers a range of topics across accountancy, finance and business. The following diagram gives an overview of content areas in the qualification. For example, it shows what proportion of the qualification is financial accounting and what proportion is management accounting.
Learning Objectives
The accountancy skills developed through this qualification will enable a student to seek employment withconfidence and/or to progress to the next level of learning. Students will develop skills including mastery ofcomplex financial processes, such as final accounts, reports and returns, spreadsheet use for accountants,VAT returns and professional ethics.This qualification can also open up a choice of great careers, as well as providing progress onto the AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting and a route to higher education. More than 30 UK universities and higher education institutes currently offer exemptions to AAT professional members enrolling on accounting and finance-related degrees.
Who Should Attend
- Students with the ambition to complete the program.
- Students interested in a vocational route to help prepare them for the workplace.
- Students who are graduates or employed and looking for the skills to get into the work place.
Duration
390 hours
Awarding Body
Assessments
Students must successfully complete four unit assessments and one synoptic assessment to achieve thisqualification. The proportion of this qualification assessed by external assessment is 100%.
All assessments in this qualification:
- Are set and marked by AAT (with the exception of RPL, which is marked by thetraining provider)
- Are computer based
- Are time limited
- Are scheduled by training providers or assessment venues
- Take place at approved centers and venues under controlled conditions.
To achieve the qualification and to be awarded a grade, a student must pass all the mandatory unit assessments and the synoptic assessment.
Unit and synoptic assessments are not awarded grades individually, but the marks achieved in allassessments contribute to the student’s overall grade for the qualification.