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AAT Level 4:
Accounting
Live Online –
Virtual Classroom
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AAT Courses: Live Online – Level 4 Accounting
With the Distance Learning Plus – Live Online initiative, we invite you to persistently refine your skills. Attain the highest level of AAT accounting credential to reinforce your ongoing career, or set the foundation for a brand-new direction, all made possible by our video-conferenced home study accounting curriculum.
What’s unique about AAT Distance Learning Plus – Live Online modules?
Experience the merits of traditional classroom-based learning from the confines of your home with Distance Learning Plus – Live Online. This mode negates the need for commuting, saving both time and expenses. If you’re equipped with a device that’s video-conference ready, you’re just a click away from stepping into a virtual learning sphere, accompanied by your tutor and peers.
Opt between various live lecture schedules – be it daytime, evening, or weekends. Engage directly with our tutors in real-time, ensuring a dynamic learning process. Missed a session? We’ve got your back with recorded lectures, enabling you to revisit or make up for lost time. We vouch for this approach as the most conducive, hassle-free, and inspiring method to learn.
Who should consider enrolling?
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AAT Level 4: Professional Diploma in Accounting
Key Features
The Level 4 Diploma covers the following mandatory areas:
- Drafting and Interpreting Financial Statements
- Applied Management Accounting
- Internal Accounting Systems and Controls
Two optional units must be chosen from the following:
- Personal tax
- Business tax
- Credit and Debt Management
- Audit and Assurance
- Cash and Financial Management
Who’s it suitable for?
The final level of the qualification is for people who have previously completed the Level 3 stage of the qualification or who have an Accounts related degree. On completion of the Level 4 Diploma candidates will be able to apply for full membership to the AAT. We would expect this qualification to take 9-12 months to complete for most students.
Assessment
There are six assessments in total.
Five are individual unit assessments which test a specific unit:
- Financial Statements of Limited Companies
- Management Accounting: Budgeting
- Management Accounting: Decision and Control
- Plus 2 optional papers
One is a synoptic assessment which is sat after the unit assessments, and covers a mixture of the mandatory units:
- Financial Statements of Limited Companies
- Management Accounting: Budgeting
- Management Accounting: Decision and Control
- Accounting Systems and Internal Controls
Grow your career
Receive formal recognition for the skills you are using day to day to move up the ladder at work.
You’ll be better off
Study AAT rather than going to University, obtain your qualifications quicker, don’t end up with loads of debt.
Start your career
Gain highly transferable skills in bookkeeping, accounting and taxation, with an AAT qualification.
Increase your salary
Average basic salaries of AAT members increase as they progress through their different stages of membership.
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Why McArthurMorgan?
All our virtual classrooms include
Interactive Classes
This gives students the ability to ask questions in real time or make comments and chat with their peers.
Timetabled Tutorials
All our classes are scheduled in advance so you get the benefits of a traditional classroom setting, in the privacy of your own home.
What if I miss the Live Class?
We give all our students a flexi pass which enables them to switch between day, evening and weekend classes. If you miss all of these, then there is still nothing to worry about, as our Live classes are recorded, so you can always catch up later in your own time.
AAT Level 4: Professional Diploma in Accounting – Course Details
- Understanding the regulatory framework underpinning financial reporting
- Understanding key features of published financial statements
- Drafting a limited company’s statutory financial statements
- Drafting consolidated financial statements
- Interpreting financial statements using ratio analysis
- Preparing budgets and income and expenditure forecasts
- Assessing budgetary impact of internal and external factors
- Using budgetary control to improve organisational performance
- Collating and analysing cost information from various sources
- Measuring performance and managing costs appropriately
- Making suggestions for improving financial performance by monitoring and analysing information
- Preparing performance reports for management
- Understanding the importance and use of internal control systems
- Evaluating the accounting system and identifying areas for improvement
- Conducting ethical and sustainability evaluations of accounting systems
- Making recommendations to improve the accounting system
AAT Level 4: Professional Diploma in Accounting – Optional Units
- Calculating income from all sources and identifying taxable and non-taxable items
- Applying current legislation to calculate tax payable on income for employees, shareholders and buy to let investors
- Accounting for capital gains tax according to current legislation
- Accounting for inheritance tax according to current legislation
- Completing corporation tax returns and supporting computations for incorporated businesses
- Understanding impact of legislation and legislative changes
- Understanding tax law and its implications for incorporated/unincorporated business
- Understanding taxation of assets
- Understanding relevant legislation and impact on credit management.
- Using information from a various sources to grant customers’ credit within organisational guidelines
- Using a range of techniques for debt collection
- Monitoring and controlling credit supply
- Planning an audit identifying areas for verification and associated risks
- Conducting a supervised audit
- Preparing draft reports for approval
- Understanding auditing principles and legal and professional standards required for an external auditor
- Using statistical techniques and financial information to prepare income and expenditure forecasts.
- Preparing cash to monitor an organisation’s cash flow
- Managing cash balances effectively
- Investing surplus funds, observing organisational policies
AAT Level 4: Professional Diploma in Accounting – Live Online Timetable & Fees
Standard Course
Thursday & Monday – Daytime
Time
10:30 - 13:30
Start Date
25th April 2024
End Date
December 2025
£1,595
OPTIONAL PAYMENT PLAN
Deposit
£195
Monthly Instalments
20 x £70
Thursday & Monday – Evening
Time
18:00 - 21:00
Start Date
25th April 2024
End Date
December 2025
£1,595
OPTIONAL PAYMENT PLAN
Deposit
£195
Monthly Instalments
20 x £70
* This course occasionally runs on Mondays. Please contact us using the form below for further information.
Fast-Track Course
Thursday & Monday – Daytime
Time
10:30 - 13:30
Start Date
25th April 2024
End Date
April 2025
£1,595
OPTIONAL PAYMENT PLAN
Deposit
£195
Monthly Instalment
14 x £100
Thursday & Monday – Evening
Time
18:00 - 21:00
Start Date
25th April 2024
End Date
April 2025
£1,595
OPTIONAL PAYMENT PLAN
Deposit
£195
Monthly Instalment
14 x £100
* This course occasionally runs on Mondays. Please contact us using the form below for further information.
What is included in the course price?
The course fee encompasses all aspects of your learning experience with McArthurMorgan, including tuition, revision sessions, evaluation of practice mock exams, and all study materials required for the duration of the course.
Are there additional costs?
Upon completing your studies with McArthurMorgan, many students opt to undertake the official AAT CBA Assessment at a local AAT Approved Assessment Centre and also register with the AAT to formalise their qualification.
- The CBA assessment incurs a fee payable to your chosen Assessment Centre. The cost of the CBA fee depends on the course level of the assessment. This is not included in your course tuition fees.
Level 1 - approx £80*
Level 2-4 - approx £please get in touch
These prices are provided only as a guide. Contact your chosen Assessment Centre for their current rates. - The AAT registration fee is paid directly to the AAT. The registration fee depends on the qualification and is not included in your course tuition fees.
Level 1 Bookkeeping - £45*
Level 2-4 - £please get in touch
Please note. If you are taking multiple course exams, such as our combined courses, you will need a CBA and AAT registration for each level of the course.
Payment Options
Single Payment: You have the option to pay the entire course fee in one full payment.
Spread the Payments: For some courses, we offer the flexibility to spread the cost of your tuition over several months. The course details will specify the monthly rate and the maximum duration for payments. For instance, if a course is priced at £500 with a payment plan of £100 deposit and £100 for 4 months, the total amount payable for the course remains £500, spread over a maximum period of 5 months. The Annual Percentage Rate (APR) is 0%
The 0% Payment Plan is an internal arrangement offered by McArthurMorgan, without the involvement of any external financial providers. This option is exclusively available for the tuition fees of McArthurMorgan courses.
*Correct at time of publication. CBA assessment and AAT registration fees are subject to change. Visit the AAT website for more information.
Plese note: Any special offers are limited time offers. They are subject to availability and may be withdrawn or become unavailable if oversubscribed.