AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting

BPP UniversityOnline, Reading, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, London South (Waterloo)

Course overview

Your pathway to senior accounting roles. Master advanced accounting with the AAT Level 4 Diploma. Gain expert skills and confidence in drafting financial statements, recommending accounting systems, and creating complex management accounting reports, while sharpening your leadership and decision-making.

Specialise with a choice of two additional units, including business or personal tax, audit and assurance, cash and financial management or credit and debt management.

Key highlights

Develop skills in drafting financial statements
Learn to recommend and evaluate accounting systems
Create complex management accounting reports
Sharpen leadership and decision-making skills
Choose two specialist units, including tax or audit and assurance
Options include cash, financial, credit and debt management

Entry requirements

There are no formal requirements for the AAT Level 4 qualification, but you should have either completed AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting or have relevant finance experience. Not sure which AAT level to start at? Take the Skillcheck on the AAT website.

If you have a university degree in accountancy or a related field, we recommend you move onto ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.

Scholarships

Advocate of the Year Scholarship
£5,000; £3,000; £2,000
Bridging Scholarship
Up to £5,000
Bridging the Bar Scholarship
Value: £5,000
Up to £5,000
BTC Advocacy Scholarship
Award Value: £3,000
Up to £3,000
BTC Excellence Award
Value: £1,000
Up to £1,000
BTC Future Lawyer Scholarship
£3,000 Half fee full fee
Career Changer Scholarship
£3,000 Half fee full fee
Converting to Law Scholarship
£3,000 Half fee full fee
International Postgraduate Bursary
Value: £1,000
Up to £1,000
SQE Future Lawyer Scholarship
£3,000 Half fee full fee

Careers this course leads to

Senior Accounts Assistant
Management Accountant
Tax Assistant
Assistant Financial Accountant
Payroll Manager
Credit Controller

Cost of study

UK/Home: £104.40 | International: £104.40

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to BPP University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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