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Foundation Certificate in AAT Accounting - Level 2 Part TimeApply Now »
Location: The RoundHouse
Years: 1
Weeks: 35
Hours: 6.75
Start: 14/09/2021
Days / Times: Tuesday 08:30 to 17:00
Tuition (£): 1265.00*
Concessions: 633.00***
Interview: Y
Course Summary
The AAT qualification is designed to teach you practical skills that you can transfer directly into your workplace or that can aid your accountancy career progression.
An AAT Certificate offers you a professional status which is recognised by employers and reflects your knowledge, understanding and skills.
When you complete the AAT training, you will be able to use the letters MAAT after your name to reflect your professional competence as an accountant. This accreditation will present you to employers and clients as a credible, up-to-date professional.
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) is the professional organisation you will join. Through this organisation, you will be able to draw on the support and expertise of AAT members across the globe.
On the Level 2 course, you will learn how to use manual and computerised accounting systems for the purchase ledger, sales ledger, general ledger and double entry bookkeeping.
This part-time programme may also offers places for Level 2 AAT Apprenticeships (this is subject to change - please discuss at your interview).
Entry requirements
You will need GCSE grades A-C in Maths or you may have experience of working in an accounts office. You will be required to complete an interview prior to the course and you need to be self-motivated.
It would benefit you to have completed the Level 1 in Computerised Bookkeeping.
Course Content
Basic accounting module 1
This incorporates principles and procedures related to:
- Processing business transactions
- Financial documents
- Payments for customers and suppliers
- Developing skills in processing ledger transactions
- Preparing an initial trial balance
Basic accounting module 2
You will develop the skills of maintenance and reconciliation of a cash book through:
- Accurately entering receipts and payments
- Balancing off the book
- Reconciling with bank statements
- Knowledge and understanding of the UK banking system and related organisational activities
- Petty cash transactions
- Understanding the importance of the journal as a primary accounting record
- Maintaining control over debtors and creditors, aided by preparation and use of debtor and creditor control accounts
- Non-standard bookkeeping transactions
- Double-entry bookkeeping records
- Working effectively in accounting and finance
- Developing transferable skills and effective working in an accounting environment
- Teamworking skills
- The ability to work independently
- Demonstrating 'workplace-ready' standards of literacy and numeracy
- Basic costing
- Understanding cost recording systems within an organisation and how best to respond to requests for information relating to costs and expenditure
- Recording and extracting information, and using a costing system to provide information for management
Computerised accounting
- Selecting and using computerised accounting or bookkeeping software
- Electronic input and process data for orders, invoices, receipts and payments
- Preparing management and period-end reports
How will I be assessed?
You will gain your AAT qualification through online assessment exams set by the professional body for accounting technicians (AAT), and through a project.
Are there any additional costs or specialist equipment required?
As part of your AAT course, you will need to purchase resource/text books to aid your revision. There may also be the additional cost of exam fees and exams (which can be discussed at interview).
Level 2
AAT Membership = £147
Books = £104 (This cost is the total cost for 5 x Tutorial and 5 x Workbooks for each unit)
Assessments = £350 (Total cost for 5 x Assessments)
AAT Membership and cost for first exams is included.
What can I do after this course?
After the course, you could progress to a further part-time course such as the AAT Level 3 in Accounting. Alternatively, you may wish to go into further employment in an accounts or business environment. We can help you if you are considering an apprenticeship programme or a full-time Business course.
Financial services are a recognised area for skills development. The sector includes employment opportunities providing bookkeeping for small companies or, with further study, other careers in professional and financial services including corporate recovery, insolvency services and forensic accounting.
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* Tuition - This figure is the fee to be paid if you are not entitled to any concessions.
*** Co-Tuition - This figure is the fee to be paid if you are entitled to any partial concessions.
Alex Watts
Former DCG business student taps into Myanmar fitness market
Lifestyle company managing director, personal trainer and former business student, Alex Watts, enjoyed many aspects of his time at the Roundhouse.
And, he said, one of the best things about Derby College was the flexible work schedule offered by his BTEC level 3 business course.Alex also met his fiancée and business partner Joanna Kyiang on his course, and straight after College, they left the UK together to work in Myanmar.
For two years Alex was a director of primary athletics in an international school, where he discovered a passion for coaching. Eager to start a business of his own, he went to Bangkok to become a certified personal trainer.
Offering an international standard of personal training to high profile clients, demand for his services quickly boomed. So, racing to capitalise on this untapped market, he and Joanna co-founded Lifestyle Centre and fitness business, FORM Yangon.
Alex said: “We pitched our idea to investors, raised the capital we needed for expansion and began building our Lifestyle Centre from the ground up. We now offer personal training, group training and youth fitness within our purpose-built centre, and are on a mission to elevate active, healthy lifestyle living in Myanmar.”
As well as gaining further qualifications in personal training and coaching Alex is now a certified nutritionist. He has also hosted a child fitness TV show, which he and Joanna scripted, planned, directed, edited and produced with a local TV company – in what was the first English-speaking programme for the channel.
Reflecting on his time at College, Alex said marketing, economics and business development were the stand-out areas for him.
He added: “One of my lecturers, who taught marketing, showed me how to find answers to problems. She would constantly encourage me to look deeper into situations and ask myself why, why, why? This is something I now use with my team.”
One of my lecturers, who taught marketing, showed me how to find answers to problems. She would constantly encourage me to look deeper into situations and ask myself why, why, why? This is something I now use with my team.
