AAT Accounting Level 3 Certificate Part-time (ITS)
Course Overview
AAT Accounting Level 3 Certificate Part-time (ITS)
Enhance your skills, knowledge, and understanding of accounting with our AAT Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Accounting online course. This distance learning qualification is suitable for businesses of all sizes and across all sectors, and is ideal for individuals working in finance roles, small business owners looking to upskill, or employers seeking advanced bookkeeping training for their staff.
This qualification develops a wide range of essential and higher-level accounting skills, including maintaining cost accounting records, advanced bookkeeping, and preparing financial statements and returns.
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) is the world’s leading professional body for bookkeeping and accounting, with over 130,000 members worldwide. Its qualifications are developed in collaboration with employers to ensure they meet current industry needs, equipping learners with the practical financial skills required in today’s workplace and providing a strong foundation for a successful career in accounting and finance.
Unit 1: Business Awareness
This unit provides an understanding of the business, its environment, and the influence that this has on an organisation’s structure, the role of its accounting function, and its performance. You will learn about the micro- and macro-economic environments, basic business law, risk, ethics, and technology.
Unit 2: Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
This unit provides the skills required to produce statements of profit or loss and statements of financial position for sole traders and partnerships using a trial balance. You will learn about period-end adjustments and reconciliations, and will also be able to interpret financial statements using profitability ratios.
Unit 3: Management Accounting Techniques
This unit provides 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. You will learn to use spreadsheets when making calculations, manipulating and analysing data, reporting, and forecasting.
Unit 4: Tax Processes for Business
This unit explores tax processes that influence the daily operations of businesses and is designed to develop your skills in understanding, preparing, and submitting Value Added Tax (VAT) returns to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The unit provides the knowledge and skills needed to keep businesses, employers, and clients compliant with laws and practices that apply to VAT and payroll.
This course is delivered in partnership with Independent Training Services (ITS Ltd.). For more information, contact ITS on telephone: 01226 216 760 or email: info@ind-training.co.uk
Located at: Online
Course Start: Flexible start dates
Course length: 1 Years
Study Mode: Part-time
Course Code: QITSDAL301
Course Fees and Funding
How much does the course cost?
£2,400 This course is eligible for adult funding (eligibility criteria may apply). Please contact our team for advice on finance and funding options.
Free courses for jobs
If you are aged 19 or over, you may not have to pay for this course if:
- You do not already have a Level 3 qualification OR
- You already have a Level 3 qualification or higher but earn below the earnings threshold set by your local authority, which includes benefits (see below) OR
- You already have a Level 3 qualification or higher but are unemployed and in receipt of a means-tested benefit, below the earnings threshold set by your local authority (see below).
This course is funded by South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) and/or West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA). You must be living in the South or West Yorkshire regions to qualify for funding.
Earnings Threshold
- If you live in the qualifying West Yorkshire region and earn below £25,000 a year, then you may not have to pay for this course.
- If you live in the qualifying South Yorkshire region and earn below £30,476 a year, then you may not have to pay for this course.
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If you are aged 16 - 19 and don't hold a grade C/4 or above in GCSE English and Maths, you will automatically be included in your study programme. If you want to work towards achieving a higher grade in English and Maths, we can help you do that too and we offer Level 3 Mathematical Studies (Core Maths) which maybe added to your study programme, subject to approval from your chosen department.
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The course information on this page was last updated 18 June 2026.
