Association of Accounting Technicians · RQF Level 1
AAT Level 1 Certificate In Accounting (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 1
- Total credits27
- Guided learning62 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by Association of Accounting Technicians · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Association of Accounting Technicians registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Accounting in a Professional EnvironmentReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand basic organisations and how the finance professional contributes to the organisation.
- Understand the need to apply appropriate ethical behaviour and professionalism within an accounting environment.
- Understand that there is a legal framework within which organisations must operate
- Understand how efficient working practices and personal development contribute to achievement.
Book-Keeping and AccountsReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Complete financial documents.
- Record cash and credit transactions in books of original entry.
- Prepare bank reconciliation.
- Understand the petty cash imprest system.
- Extract a trial balance from ledger accounts.
Computerised AccountsReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Create accounts using computerised accounts software
- Process accounting information using computerised software
- Understand how to use batch control sheets
- Produce reports using computerised software
Computerised Payroll AdministrationReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Set up a computerised payroll system
- Set up employee records and payroll data in a computerised payroll system
- Enter details of gross pay into the computerised payroll system
- Process the payroll
- Back up and/or restore payroll data
- Understand statutory requirements for submitting information
Essential Accounting ProceduresReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand basic accounting terminology
- Understand the use of business documents
- Prepare to record business transactions in the books of prime entry
- Understand types of coding and batch control
- Prepare documents to process receipts and payments
- Prepare a basic profit statement
Introduction to book-keepingReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the job role and career path for a book-keeper
- Understand different types of business organisations
- Know the terminology used in book-keeping
Mathematics for AccountingReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Apply basic mathematical concepts to financial data.
Payroll ProcessingReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Determine Income tax to be deducted from Gross Pay
- Determine National Insurance Contributions to be deducted from Gross Pay.
- Reconcile the payroll and make payments to employees
Spreadsheet SoftwareReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Use a spreadsheet to enter, edit and organise numerical and other data
- Use appropriate formulas and tools to summarise and display spreadsheet information
- Select and use appropriate tools and techniques to present spreadsheet information effectively
Working within Book-keepingReal unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand single-entry book-keeping
- Know the general principles of VAT
- Understand what is meant by both cash and credit transactions
- Understand the principles of coding and batch control
- Understand how to process information in the books of prime entry (excluding the Journal)
- Understand responsibilities when working in a book-keeping environment
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 1 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
Accounts Payable/Receivable Clerk
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for AAT Level 1 Certificate In Accounting (QCF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Association of Accounting Technicians.
- Accounting in a Professional Environment
- Book-Keeping and Accounts
- Computerised Accounts
- Computerised Payroll Administration
- Essential Accounting Procedures
- Introduction to book-keeping
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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