Studying AAT…One Bite At A Time

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Studying AAT…one bite at a time As you may know, I got mugged into joining in with the office entry for a charity Rainbow Run on the 9 June 2018. As well as having to run 5k, one gets showered along the way with powdered paint of a variety of colours. Those of you who […]

Don’t Leave Your AAT Studies To The Last Moment!

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A stitch in time saves nine! (…..don’t leave your AAT studies to the last moment)   Grrrr!!??!! The other evening, I popped my head in to ask a tutor if she had sent off an email to a supplier that we had discussed earlier in the day. “Arrgghh. I was doing it” she said, looking […]

Which AAT Course Should I Start With?

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It’s obviously hugely important that you start your AAT journey enrolled on a course that’s right for you…   Identifying the appropriate course will to a certain extent, depend on what you think your end point will be e.g. you might want to become a freelance bookkeeper; maybe you want a career change and need an […]

Getting to Grips with AAT Cost Behaviour

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Is AAT Cost Behaviour a Challenge for You? There are some topics included within the AAT syllabus that are so important that they are assessed at all levels of the AAT qualification.  The accounting equation is one such topic, and another is the subject of this blog, cost behaviour.  Despite its importance, students at all […]

Planning Your Next Steps After AAT Level 3

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Next Steps after you have completed your AAT Level 3 (Advanced) Diploma in Accounting Recently I have had a number of students chatting about their “next steps”, having just completed their AAT Level 3 (AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting) qualification – a number of them are finding it difficult to decide whether or not to […]

Head In The Clouds

Have You Got Your Head In The Clouds? Ten years ago most of us hadn’t heard of ‘the cloud’ but these days cloud accounting is fast becoming the most popular way for businesses to maintain their financial records. In our fast-moving world of technological change, accountants are used to ‘just getting on with it’ when […]

Help With AAT Level 4 Ratio Analysis Part 2

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Stuck with the written Ratio Analysis questions in AAT Level 4 (Professional Level)? Here we take you through a worked example… Shown below is the kind of written ratio analysis question you can expect to see in the AAT Level 4 (Professional Level) Financial Statements exam along with the kind of comments you should include in […]

Help With AAT Level 4 Ratio Analysis – Part 1

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Stuck with Ratio Analysis in AAT Level 4 (Professional Level)? Then help is at hand… At Professional Level (Level 4), all of the mandatory units and some of the optional units include questions on ratio analysis.  Students generally have no difficulty in calculating the ratios (once they have memorised all those formulae) but when it […]

We Are The AAT Champions!

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Accountancy Learning – winners of the 2018 AAT Champion Award Freddie Mercury…oh how we love you…to have created a song that so brilliantly captured how the Accountancy Learning team felt at the awards ceremony and even now while I write this, the very famous Queen song rings in my ears as a solid reminder of […]

What does MHAW mean?

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Opening this blog and spotting the abbreviation MHAW, what initial thoughts did you have as to what this stands for? An accounting abbreviation? A study guide tip? MHAW is actually short for Mental Health Awareness Week, which is happening right now week 14th to the 20th May; and much like the abbreviation, this may mean […]