AAT Accounting Level 3

This qualification covers a range of essential and higher-level accounting techniques and disciplines. Students will develop skills needed for a range of financial processes, including maintaining cost accounting records, advanced bookkeeping and the preparation of financial reports and returns.

Within this qualification, you will complete 2 units:

•  Business Awareness: This unit provides students with an understanding of the business, its environment, the influences that this has on an organisation's structure, the role of a business's accounting function and its performance. Students will examine the rights and responsibilities of the key stakeholders, as well as gain an understanding of the importance of professional ethics and ethical management within the finance function.
•  Management Accounting Techniques: This unit provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to understand the role of management accounting in an organisation, and how organisations use such information to aid decision making. Students will learn the principles that underpin management accounting methodology and techniques, how costs are handled in organisations and why organisations treat costs in different ways.

Minimum of 4 GCSEs at grades A-C/4-9 (including Maths and English) and a Level 2 Accountancy qualification, in addition to Level 3 Bookkeeping or significant experience of working in industry.