AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting (Online – Live)
£1,599.00 - £2,573.00 ?
This qualification covers complex accounting and finance topics and tasks leading to students becoming confident with a wide range of financial management skills and applications. You will gain competencies in drafting financial statements for limited companies, recommending accounting systems strategies and constructing and presenting complex management accounting reports.
Accredited Achievement: AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting (603/6339/3)
Workshop Attendance: 65 weeks of Term Time attendance (Wednesday 09:30 – 15:00)
Location: Online via Zoom
Expected Course Length: 15 months
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Term 1:
Begins: Wednesday, 8th January 2025
Half Term: Monday 10th February 2025, to Friday 21st February 2025
Concludes: Wednesday, 2nd April 2025
* Please note a further 4 terms of attendance are required.
Term 1:
Begins: Wednesday, 23rd April 2025
Half Term: Monday 26th May 2025, to Friday 30th May 2025
Concludes: Wednesday, 16th July 2025
* Please note a further 4 terms of attendance are required.
Term 1:
Begins: Wednesday, 3rd September 2025
Half Term: Monday 27th October 2025, to Friday 31st October 2025
Concludes: Wednesday, 17th December 2025
* Please note a further 4 terms of attendance are required.
Term 1:
Begins: Wednesday, 7th January 2026
Half Term: Monday 16th February 2026, to Friday 20th February 2026
Concludes: Wednesday, 25th March 2026
* Please note a further 4 terms of attendance are required.
Term 1:
Begins: Wednesday, 15th April 2026
Half Term: Monday 25th May 2026, to Friday 29th May 2026
Concludes: Wednesday, 15th July 2026
* Please note a further 4 terms of attendance are required.
Course Details
The AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting offers technical training in accounting and is ideal for anyone wishing to pursue or progress their career in accountancy and or finance.
The purpose of the AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting is to enhance the skills developed from the AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting, enabling students to maximise opportunities in their current or new employment. By studying for this qualification, students will acquire professional accountancy and finance skills that will be useful throughout their careers, including:
- drafting financial statements for limited companies
- knowledge and skills in complex management accounting techniques
- the ability to analyse accounting systems and their associated controls
- knowledge and skills in specialist accountancy and finance subjects.
Upon completion, you will automatically become an AAT affiliate member and with relevant work experience will qualify for AAT full membership.
The AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting runs over five – six academic terms and enhances the skills developed in the intermediate level.
You’ll look at financial team leader skills, including financial statements for limited companies, complex management skills and specialist learning areas.
The AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting consists of three mandatory units and two optional units delivered over three terms:
Mandatory Units:
- Applied Management Accounting
- Drafting and Interpreting Financial Statements
- Internal Accounting Systems and Controls
One mandatory unit is delivered per term.
Optional Units:
The below optional units are delivered via CMS via the classroom learning route. Other optional units can be completed via distance learning. The below units would be delivered in alternative terms alongside a mandatory unit.
- Personal Tax
- Cash and Financial Management
Additional detail on mandatory units and learning outcomes
Additional detail on optional units and learning outcomes
The purpose of this qualification is to ensure that students are well prepared to progress into a career in business, finance or professional accountancy, or into further education.
All learners enrolling on the AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting receive:
- Weekly professional tutor support in a welcoming classroom environment
- 5 x Study text including knowledge checking activities throughout
- 5 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, allowing you to attend classroom learning from the comfort of your own home
- *First-attempt exam fees are paid for
- AAT Membership
Please note the course fee does not include:
- Re-sit Assessment Fees – These will be charged at £115 per assessment
NB: *Where exams are not sat via a CMS assessment day, your exam fees will be subsidised to the value of £65.
Option 1: Pay the full £1,599 balance via our payment link.
Option 2: Pay a £150 deposit by calling CMS or booking online. The remaining balance can be paid interest-free via Direct Debit over 3, 6, 9 or 12 months.
Download the AAT 2023 Salary Report
Potential Salary:
Your typical salary range for Level 4 qualified will be £26,000*.
*AAT’s 2023 Salary Survey. Represents the mean of all respondents.
Potential jobs after completing this qualification:
The primary and most important outcome of the AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting is that it can lead to a wide variety of well-paid accountancy and finance jobs, some of which include:
- professional accounting technician
- assistant auditor
- assistant management accountant
- commercial analyst
- payroll manager
- senior bookkeeper
- senior financial officer
- accounts payable and expenses supervisor
- assistant financial accountant
- cost accountant
- fixed asset accountant
- indirect tax manager
- payments and billing manager
- senior fund accountant
- senior insolvency administrator
- tax supervisor
- VAT accountant