AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting (Distance)
£900.00 - £2,573.00 ?
This qualification covers a range of essential and higher-level accounting techniques and disciplines. You will learn and develop skills needed for a range of financial processes, including maintaining cost accounting records, advanced bookkeeping and the preparation of financial reports and returns.
Accredited Achievement: AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting (603/6337/X)
Support: Unlimited on-demand support via our support ticketing system.
Location: Study from home/work/holiday
Expected Course Length: 9 months (expected study time of 5-10 hours a week)
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Course Details
The AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting offers technical training in accounting and is ideal for anyone wishing to pursue a career in accountancy and finance.
The purpose of the AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting is to provide students with the specialist knowledge and skills required for progressing either to employment in an accounting or finance role, or to enable progression to further study in accountancy and finance.
This qualification is a progression route for students who have achieved either the AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting or the AAT Foundation Diploma in Accounting and Business.
It is also suitable for those who are at a more intermediate level and looking to develop their skills in accounting, or for those who have already started working in finance and who have a need and desire to attain formal recognition of their skills.
AAT does not set any prerequisites for the study of the AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting. However, for the best chance of success, we recommend that students begin their studies with a good standard of English and maths.
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All learners enrolling on the AAT Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Accountancy receive:
- Unlimited on-demand support via our support ticketing system.
- 4 x Study text including online knowledge-checking activities throughout
- 4 x Revision kits containing a wide range of further online assessment preparation tasks
- Access to the AAT Learning Portal
- Access to MyKaplan online learning resources
- Access to CMS e-learning portfolio, containing recorded content and additional learning resources from a wide range of sources
The AAT Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Accounting can be expected to be completed within 9 months.
Students must complete four-unit assessments to achieve this qualification.
Unit Assessments:
- Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
- Management Accounting Techniques
- Tax Processes for Businesses
- Business Awareness
Pricing Tariff
Self-funded:
£900 (upfront payment or 0% interest monthly instalments)
What is included:
- Unlimited support requests via our support ticket system and loom (additional tutor support is chargeable at £48 per hour)
- Access to our learner management system with a range of resources to aid your study
What is not included:
- AAT qualification fee (payable to AAT)
- Unit assessment fees (payable to relevant AAT Assessment Centre)
Expectations: Learners can work at their own pace
Advanced Learner Loans:
£2,573 Funded via Advanced Learn Loan:
What is included:
- Mandatory fortnightly 1-1 online live tutor support meetings
- Unlimited support requests via our support ticket system and loom
- Access to our learner management system with a range of resources to aid your study
- AAT qualification fee
- Unit assessment fees
What is expectation: Learners are expected to work towards the achievement of the qualification within 9 months.
Why the price difference?
There are additional contractual responsibilities that providers incur around the administration of Advanced Learner Loans e.g. increased administration and quality management costs as well as delayed payment streams from the government and fewer guarantees around the payment. Advanced Learner Loans funding rates are set by the government. The advanced learner loan price also includes so mandatory costs payable by self-funded learners.
Download the AAT 2023 Salary Report
Potential Salary:
Your typical salary range for Level 3 qualified will be £24,000*.
*AAT’s 2023 Salary Survey. Represents the mean of all respondents.
Potential jobs after completing this qualification:
This qualification can also open up a choice of great careers, as well as provide progress toward 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.
The accounts assistant works directly for an accountant, accounting manager, finance manager, or a small team of management. They help to maintain the office and keep it running smoothly, and their typical responsibilities include:
- balancing accounts
- processing receipts, sales invoices and payments
- maintaining financial records that accurately record the incoming and outgoing finances of the business
- completing VAT return forms
- working with spreadsheets, sales and purchase ledgers and journals
- ensuring that accounts are accurately monitored and recorded
- dealing with a company’s payroll by processing wages and employee expense claims
- preparing profit and loss accounts sheets
- preparing balance sheets
- client engagement, such as sending out starter packs to clients and/or answering enquiries
- processing the company’s own accounts (in an accountancy firm)
