AAT Courses Starting January 2025
Accelerate your career with AAT.
Gain globally-recognised AAT qualifications that equip you with practical, real-world accounting skills you can apply from day one.
Boost your earning potential. On-site childcare and funding options available, subject to eligibility.
AAT L2 Certificate in Accounting
This qualification will prepare you for junior and entry level accounting roles. It delivers a solid foundation in finance administration. The course covers areas including:
- Introduction to Bookkeeping
- Principles of Bookkeeping controls
- Principles of costing
- The Business Environment synoptic
Start date: 7 January 2025 at 5:00pm finishes 09:15pm
Location: Cheltenham & Gloucester
AAT L3 Diploma in Accounting
This qualification covers complex accounting tasks, teaching financial processes such as accounting principles, advanced bookkeeping, VAT, management accounting, ethical practices, and spreadsheet software skills for accounting.
The course covers four units:
- Business Awareness
- Financial Accounting (preparing financial statements)
- Management Accounting Techniques
- Tax Processes for Businesses
Start date: January 2025
Location: Cheltenham
AAT L4 Diploma in Professional Accounting
This course is suitable for students who have completed the AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting. It covers advanced accounting tasks such as drafting financial statements, managing budgets, evaluating financial performance, and offers optional specialist units in areas like business tax, personal tax, external auditing, credit management, and cash and treasury management. The course covers 3 mandatory units:
- Applied Management Accounting
- Drafting and Interpreting Financial Statements
- Internal Accounting Systems and Control
- Business Tax and Personal Tax (or) Cash and Financial Management and Credit and Debit Management
Start date: January 2025
Location: Cheltenham
Anytime Starts - Online AAT Courses
Online AAT courses offer flexible, self-paced learning for individuals looking to gain professional accounting qualifications. Perfect for those balancing work, family, or other commitments, these courses allow you to study from anywhere while receiving expert guidance and support.
These courses iare assessed through computer-based exams and a synoptic assessment, which brings together everything you’ve learned across the qualification. If you’re not based in Gloucestershire, don’t worry—we’ll work with you to find an exam centre closer to your home.
AAT Level 1 Courses
Our AAT Level 1 offering are short qualifications designed to help you develop essential business, finance and bookkeeping skills you can apply directly to the workplace. Delivered in the evening, these courses combine flexibility with expert tutoring to support your learning and career goals.
