Guide to Aat

Getting Started
Your guide to studying the
AAT Accounting Qualification

Welcome
Becoming an Accountant

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Boost your earning potential

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Before you start

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The AAT Accounting Qualification

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Starting the AAT
What will the AAT cost?

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What funding options
are available?

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Find your study method

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Ways to study the AAT

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Your study resources

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Your steps to
becoming qualified

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Get the results you
want with BPP

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Becoming an Accountant
Did you know that accountants
don’t need to be great at maths?
The majority of work uses
methodological processes
to solve problems instead.

2018

2020

Work
Environment:
Office

Communication

Basic
Maths

To make sure the AAT is the right
qualification for you, this guide will show
how it works and what it can do to advance
your career. It will help you think about how
to prepare for success, and turn your hard
work and effort into becoming a qualified
accounting technician.
Then, like many other AAT qualifiers before
you, you’ll open up the opportunity to
work in well-rewarded roles with major
employers across the world.

Top 5 skills for
an accounting career

Attention
to Detail

2022

Studying for the AAT qualification is
your ideal first step to becoming an
accounting professional, affiliated to a
widely-recognised professional body with
around 130,000 members in more than
90 countries.

Time Management

Working in accounting

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2016

*Bureau of Labor Statistics

Salary:
£15,000 £50,000+
Typical Hours:
30-40 per week

Accounting jobs
are predicted
to grow by
13% by 2022*

Accountancy is among the world’s
most stimulating, exciting and rewarding
professions. It’s at the heart of every
modern business, from sole traders to
multinationals, and people with the right
financial skills are an asset no modern
organisation can afford to be without.

Problem
Solving

Boost your
earning potential
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT

AAT Level 4 Diploma in Accounting

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

AAT Level 3...