Which AAT Course Should I Start With?

Which course should I start with

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…