AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting (Advanced)

This AAT course will offer you an accredited route into accountancy, allowing you to quickly advance your accounting career. The AAT Level 3 online course will help you progress your career by teaching you more advanced and complex accounting skills.

As the UK’s most chosen online AAT provider, we ensure that our courses equip you with the skills and knowledge so that you can gain more responsibility in your current or new role. You'll also be one step closer to completing the AAT pathway and becoming an AAT Full Member.

We work hard to create courses which will advance your career whilst being a great study option for you to learn around your work and lifestyle commitments. Also, through AVADO’s pass guarantee, if you don’t pass your exams the first time, you will get access to the online campus and dedicated tutor support for a re-sit, for free.

The AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting will build on the skills you developed in the level 2 course, introducing you to more complex, specialist areas of accounting.

The AAT Level 3 qualification consists of the following six units:

1. Advanced Bookkeeping
2. Final Accounts Preparation
3. Indirect Tax
4. Management Accounting: Costing
5. Ethics for Accountants
6. Spreadsheets for Accounting

Student Support:

Upon enrolment you will be supported by a personal AAT tutor, as well as being taught by AAT experts and accounting professionals. Your personal tutor will be on hand to help navigate around the platform and any doubts about distance learning at ease.

What is included:

• FREE Xero cloud-based accounting certification
• Printed course materials and online eBooks
• One-to-one tutorial support
• 24-hour access to the Virtual Learning Campus
• Personalised individual study plan
• Free TOTUM card, the #1 student discount card

Financial options

Choose from a range of flexible payment plans to fit your financial situation. You can split the cost of your course over 12 monthly payments, which means funding your course is easy and affordable.

About the AAT

The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) is the leading awarding body for skills based accounting qualifications, awarding 90% of all vocational qualifications in finance and accounting. These qualifications are universally respected and internationally recognised making you highly attractive to employers.

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If you are already have some experience in accounting and are looking to further your career, the level 3 course will develop your accounting skills to an advanced level. Once you have finished your training and gained the AAT Level 3 Diploma, you'll be equipped for more responsibility, in your current role or a new one.

In order to enrol you must have passed AAT Level 2 or an equivalent accounting qualification. Alternatively, you can have gained sufficient work experience in an accounting role for the Level 3 course to be appropriate.

The following entry requirements also apply:

• You must be over the age of 18 or have a third-party payee for any financial agreement
• You must have a solid grasp of the English language (IELTS 5.5 or equivalent if English is not your first language)
• You must be able to attend all exams at an AAT Approved centre. Students outside the UK will incur an additional cost for international postage of textbooks

Upon completion of the AAT Level 3 course you will have an in-depth knowledge of advanced accounting processes and will also be eligible to become an AAT Full Member (MAAT). This course will qualify for a mid-level finance role such as: Credit Controller, Accounts Officer and Accounts Assistant.

The next step in the full AAT pathway is the Professional Diploma in Accounting (Level 4).