AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting (Online- Live)
£1,550.00 - £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)
Workshop Attendance: 39 weeks of Term Time attendance (Thursdays 09:30 – 15:00)
Location: Online via Zoom
Expected Course Length: 9 months
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Term 1:
Begins: Thursday, 3rd September 2026
Half Term: Monday 26th October 2026, to Friday 30th October 2026
Concludes: Thursday, 17th December 2026
Term 2:
Begins: Thursday, 7th January 2027
Half Term: Monday 15th February 2027, to Friday 19th February 2027
Concludes: Thursday, 18th March 2027
Term 1:
Begins: Thursday, 7th January 2027
Half Term: Monday 15th February 2027, to Friday 19th February 2027
Concludes: Thursday, 18th March 2027
Term 2:
Begins: Thursday, 15th April 2027
Half Term: Monday 31st May 2027, to Friday 4th June 2027
Concludes: Thursday, 15th July 2027
Course Details
The AAT 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 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 Certificate in Accounting or the AAT 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 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 Diploma in Accountancy receive:
- Weekly professional tutor support in a welcoming online group classroom environment
- 4 x Study text including knowledge-checking activities throughout
- 4 x Revision kits containing a wide range of further assessment preparation tasks
- Access to the AAT Learning Portal
- Access to MyKaplan online learning resources
- Access to CMS e-learning portfolio, containing additional learning resources from a wide range of sources
- Online real-time classroom learning activities, allow you to attend classroom learning from the comfort of your own home
The AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting runs over two academic terms and covers a range of complex accounting tasks, including maintaining cost accounting records and the preparation of reports and returns.
It comprises of four mandatory units delivered over two terms.
Unit Assessments:
- Business Awareness
- Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
- Management Accounting Techniques
- Tax Processes for Businesses
Pricing Tariff
Self-funded:
£1,550 (upfront payment or 0% interest monthly instalments)
What is included:
- 39 weeks (09:30 – 15:00) of group online live tutor support (additional 1-1 tutor support is chargeable at £48 per hour)
- 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 including tutor pre-recorded content.
- Recordings of weekly classroom delivery
What is not included:
- AAT qualification fee (payable to AAT)
- Unit assessment fees (payable to relevant AAT Assessment Centre)
What is expectation: Learners are expected to keep pace with the programme and achieve within 9 months.
Advanced Learner Loans:
£2,573 Funded via an Advanced Learner Loan
What is included:
- 39 weeks (09:30 – 15:00) of group online live tutor support throughout the programme (additional 1-1 tutor support is chargeable at £42 per hour)
- Mandatory monthly 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 (repayable to CMS if the programme is not completed)
- First attempt unit assessment fees – Unit assessment fees
What is not included:
- Resit unit assessment fees (payable to relevant AAT Assessment Centre)
Expectation: Learners are expected to keep pace with the programme and achieve 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)
