AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting (Level 3) - classroom

Gain a globally recognised accounting qualification, and drastically enhance your career prospects.

The AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting (Level 3) is the intermediate level on the AAT qualification route, bringing in more complex accounting tasks, such as maintaining cost accounting records and the preparation of reports and returns.

Completing this qualification will open doors to both new employment and qualification opportunities.

By studying with Babington, you’ll benefit from comprehensive tutor support, with materials written by our own experts.

What will you study?

The AAT Advanced Diploma contains the following units. You can also choose to study these individually:

• Advanced bookkeeping
• Final Accounts Preparation
• Management Accounting: Costing
• Indirect Tax
• Ethics for Accountants
• Spreadsheets for Accounting

What skills will you gain?

• Demonstrate accepted principles of accounting and double entry bookkeeping
• Account for purchases of non-current assets, depreciation and adjustments and disposal
• Prepare and extend the trial balance
• Understand the process involved in preparing final accounts
• Prepare accounting records from incomplete information
• Produce final accounts for sole traders
• Understand partnership legislative and accounting requirements
• Prepare a statement of profit or loss appropriation account
• Prepare a financial position statement relating to a partnership
• Understand an organisation’s costing system
• Record and analyse cost information
• Apportion costs to organisational requirements
• Analyse budget deviations, and report these to management
• Use information gathered from costing systems to assist decision making
• Understand the principles of ethical working
• Understand ethical responsibility
• Understand VAT regulations
• Complete VAT returns accurately and on time
• Understand VAT penalties and adjusting for previous errors
• Communicate VAT information
• Use a spreadsheet to enter, edit and organise numerical and other data

The course is ideal if you’ve completed the AAT Foundation Certificate, or you’re already at an advanced level and want to build your skill set and enhance your career prospects.

There are no requirements for studying this course, although it is helpful to complete the AAT Foundation Certificate first.

Those who complete the AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting often go into:

• Accounts Assistant
• Accounts Payable
• Audit Trainee Bookkeeper
• Credit Controller
• Finance Assistant
• Payroll Administrator/Supervisor
• Practice Bookkeeper and Payroll
• Tax Accountant/Assistant

According to AAT’s Salary Survey, you are likely to earn somewhere between £11,000 and £24,000 upon completion of your studies.