This Level 1 Bookkeeping AAT course is ideal for adults wanting to pursue a career in accountancy or gain some book keeping skills at a time to suit.
DurationThe Course in Detail
This Level 1 Bookkeeping AAT course is ideal for adults wanting to pursue a career in accountancy or gain some book keeping skills at a time to suit.
The purpose of this qualification is to ensure that you are well prepared to progress into a business, finance or professional accountancy career or further education.
Completing this qualification will develop your accountancy skills in bookkeeping and basic costing, as well as an understanding of purchase, sales and general ledgers.
You will also learn basic Contract Law and develop the professional skills and behaviours needed to contribute effectively in the workplace.
Working in accountancy requires good communication skills, good numeracy skills and an understanding of the business environment, all of which are included in the qualification.
The sessions will take you through learning and mock exams in readiness for exams in the following topics:
Understand the role of the book keeper
Understand financial transactions
Process customer and supplier transactions
Process receipts and payments
Understand the benefits and risks of using accountancy software to complete book keeping tasks
Entry Requirements & Progression
What You'll Need
You will be required to attend an online interview with the course tutor prior to commencement on the course and demonstrate an appropriate standard of Literacy and Numeracy. Basic IT skills will also be required. A pre-entry requirement for the course is the completion of an online assessment in English and Maths.
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) is a professional body and membership is required in order to undertake this qualification. Registration with the AAT must be made upon commencement of the course and will incur an additional cost.
Course text books will also be required and full details will be given upon commencement. A calculator, a notebook, pens and an A4 folder will be required from the start of the course.
This Could Lead to
The finance, accountancy, business and communications skills developed in the AAT Level 1 Award in Bookkeeping can lead to employment as an accounts administrator, accounts assistant, accounts payable clerk, purchase/sales ledger clerk, trainee accounting technician and trainee finance assistant to name but a few.
The accountancy and finance knowledge developed in this qualification is also the underpinning knowledge needed for the higher-level accountancy and financial skills developed in the AAT Advanced and Professional Accounting Qualifications.
South Hampshire College Group
South Hampshire College Group (SHCG) brings together three Further Education colleges from Eastleigh, Fareham, and Southampton to create a strong and ambitious organisation.
We’re here to help you build a better future, including students, apprentices and our region’s businesses. We strive for everyone to be successful in their future through high-quality technical and professional education and training.
Eastleigh College
A leading technical and professional college which teaches over 5,700 students from across the country each year, offering a wide range of programmes to provide school leavers, apprentices and adult learners at all educational stages with the skills and knowledge needed for a highly rewarding future.
Through its extensive industry partnerships across the Solent, Hampshire and ‘South Central’ region, the college also supports more than 1,000 businesses with their ongoing training, updating, certification and licensing needs.
Fareham College
An Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rated college that teaches over 3,200 students each year and offers a diverse range of courses. These include T Levels, traineeships, apprenticeships, HE, and part-time and professional courses. These courses help prepare students for employment in their chosen career path or progress to university or onto an apprenticeship.
The college was a wave one T Level provider in 2020 and is the lead college for the South Coast Institute of
Technology (IoT).
Southampton College
A well-established general further education college in Hampshire, providing career-led courses, apprenticeships and education for young people, adults and businesses. The college has been serving the City of Southampton for over 70 years and currently has around 3,000 students and apprentices.
CEMAST
Our Centre of Excellence in Engineering, Manufacturing and Advanced Skills Training (CEMAST) is an outstanding provider of career-led courses, including T Levels and Higher Technical Qualifications. Our courses will open the doors to many exciting progression and career opportunities.
CETC
Our Civil Engineering Training Centre (CETC) is a purpose-built two-acre mock construction site close to our CEMAST training centre on the Daedalus Airfield, and is dedicated to the delivery of a specialist Civil Engineering & Groundworks Apprenticeship and also specialist training in Highways.
Mission Statement
South Hampshire College Group is committed to creating better futures for all of our students. It is our mission to enable students, apprentices and regional businesses to enjoy successful futures through high-quality technical and professional education and training.
It is our aspiration to lead a better distributed, accessible, and collaborative group of South Hampshire Colleges. Through this, we will provide outstanding education and training across a wide community of students and employers in the Solent region. Our work will support the skills needs of employers and improve regional productivity, economic development and social mobility.
We will be an agile organisation, constantly developing and improving, while remaining responsive to policy and reforms in further education, and adaptive to the changing needs of the region’s employers.
This course will help to equip the candidates with the required skills. Topics like double-entry book keeping, income statement, financial planning and assets and liabilities are included in this course.
On this course, you will learn practical bookkeeping skills. You will learn underpinning theory including how to identify assets, liabilities, income and expenses, how to identify profit and loss and the differences between trading for cash and trading on credit.
At the end of the course participants will be familiar with the basic principles of double entry bookkeeping, and will have prepared trial balances, profit and loss accounts and balance sheets to a basic level.
A part-time Accounting (Bookkeeping) Level 1 course, offering the ideal first step towards a new career in bookkeeping or accounts.
Bookkeeping focuses on the recording and handling daily financial transactions such as expenses, purchases, sales and receipts. This is a regular record-keeping activity that is the basis of all the economic reports.
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