AAT Award in Bookkeeping

The AAT Level 1 Award in Bookkeeping offers students at Level 1 the opportunity to develop practical bookkeeping skills. This qualification may help students to move on to further study in either accountancy or bookkeeping with AAT, offer a route into employment or be of interest to those already in employment.

AAT does not set any prerequisites for the study of the AAT Level 1 Award in Bookkeeping. However, the ability to communicate information clearly and appropriately to a given audience is a valuable skill in any role and in any type of business, particularly in finance roles.

For the best chance of success, we recommend that students begin their AAT studies with a good standard of English and maths.

Modules include:

• Understand the role of the bookkeeper
• Understand financial transactions
• Process customer and supplier transactions
• Process receipts and payments

Following successful completion of this qualification, your progression will normally be to the AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting.

You may be able to study for free if this course will help improve your employment prospects. You could be eligible if you are:

• Employed and earning below:
• £37,144 (if you live in the Liverpool City Region; Wirral, Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens or Halton)
• £26,800 (if you live outside the Liverpool City Region) Employed and receiving certain state benefits
• Unemployed (with or without benefits)

Asylum seekers can access free courses up to Level 2 if the course supports long-term employment

Terms and Conditions apply.

You must be 19 or over on or before 31st August to study on this course.

Relevant Entry Level qualification or 3 GCSEs at Grade 2/E or above

Maths and English at Grade 2/E or above.

If English is not your first language, you may need an assessment before enrolling on this course. To discuss further, please contact the ESOL department on 0151 551 7144.

Learners who completed this course went on to apply for the AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting, and to follow this with Level 3 and 4 studies.

You could continue your studies and gain a partial or full AAT Qualification. Subject to further testing, you would be eligible to apply for the AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting, and possibly to follow this with Level 3 and 4 studies. You could work in a junior capacity in a clerical or similar role.

One half-day per week.

Students must successfully complete one end-of-qualification computer-based assessment to achieve this qualification. The proportion of this qualification assessed by external assessment is 100%.