VTCT Skills · RQF Level 3
VTCT Skills Level 3 Diploma in Computerised Accounting for Business (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning302 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by VTCT Skills · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The VTCT Skills Level 3 Diploma is for those working in accounting and finance. It covers computerised accounting software, partnership accounting principles, cash flow management, and budgeting.
These are the units VTCT Skills 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 for not for profit organisationsReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key terminology used in accounting for not for profit organisations
- Understand the purpose and structure of a receipts and payments account within a not for profit organisation
- Understand the function and purpose of financial statements prepared for a not for profit organisation
Cash Flow ManagementReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate cash flow forecasting techniques
- Use forecasts to monitor cash flow within the organisation
- Manage cash balances effectively
- Understand how the external environment impacts on how an organisation manages cash assets
- Make informed decisions regarding the management of cash balances within an organisation
- Understand a range of business techniques used to improve the efficiency of cash management procedures within an organisation
Introduction to a cost recording system within an organisationReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of a cost recording system within an organisation
- Recognise the components of a cost recording system and how they operate
- Record cost information accurately
- Analyse cost information effectively
- Prepare a management report on deviations from a budget
- Use information gathered from costing systems to assist decision-making
Prepare and complete a VAT returnReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the VAT requirements of an organisation, including registration and record-keeping.
- Understand the nature of inputs and outputs in relation to VAT and their impact on VAT calculations.
- Understand the requirements, frequency and penalties relating to different VAT schemes available to organisations.
- Complete a VAT return accurately and in accordance with current regulations.
- Understand the implications of VAT payments and relevant legislation for the organisation's financial position.
Principles of accounting conceptsReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental accounting concepts and the qualitative characteristics used in the preparation and presentation of financial statements.
- Understand the principles of double entry bookkeeping and their application in recording financial transactions.
- Understand the purpose and use of different stock valuation methods and their impact on financial statements.
- Understand the process of accounting for fixed assets, including depreciation and disposal.
- Understand the process of accounting for prepayments and accruals to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Understand the process of accounting for bad and doubtful debts and their impact on the balance sheet.
Principles of partnership accountingReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the partnership structure as a form of business entity
- Understand the legislation relating to partnerships
- Understand how different accounts are used in partnership accounting
- Understand the procedures applied when changes occur in the structure of a partnership
Principles of preparing basic financial statementsReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the form and function of the trial balance as a summary of ledger balances.
- Understand the purpose of the suspense account and how to resolve discrepancies.
- Understand the form and function of financial statements, including the statement of profit or loss and the statement of financial position.
- Understand the form and function of the extended trial balance and its use in preparing financial statements.
- Understand the calculation and interpretation of key accounting ratios to analyse financial performance and position.
Responsibilities of a finance professionalReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of integrity and professionalism for a finance professional.
- Understand the principles of workplace legislation relevant to a finance professional.
- Understand the principles of legislation relating to money laundering and the finance professional's role in prevention.
- Understand the ethical responsibility of the finance professional in promoting sustainability within an organisation.
Standard and Advanced Budgeting using a Computerised Accounting PackageReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of ‘standard budgeting’ techniques using a computerised accounting package.
- Produce ‘standard budget’ reports from a computerised accounting package.
- Understand the use of ‘advanced budgeting’ techniques using a computerised accounting package.
- Produce advanced budget reports from a computerised accounting package.
Using Computerised Accounting SoftwareReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Set up master data using a computerised accounting software package
- Process accounting transactions on a computerised accounting software package
- Process adjustments on a computerised accounting software package
- Process period end routines on a computerised accounting software package
- Process VAT returns using a computerised accounting software package
- Produce accounting reports to assist the financial management of an organisation
- Analyse accounting reports to assist the financial management of an organisation
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 3 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
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See the whole journey →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
This unit covers the terminology and accounting practices specific to not-for-profit organisations. Learners will understand key terms, the purpose of receipts and payments accounts, and the function of financial statements, including relevant regulatory and reporting requirements.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for VTCT Skills Level 3 Diploma in Computerised Accounting for Business (RQF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by VTCT Skills.
- Accounting for not for profit organisations
- Cash Flow Management
- Introduction to a cost recording system within an organisation
- Prepare and complete a VAT return
- Principles of accounting concepts
- Principles of partnership accounting
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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