How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Association of Accounting Technicians has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Association of Accounting Technicians awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Association of Accounting Technicians.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Association of Accounting Technicians. It does the teaching and the mapping. Association of Accounting Technicians sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Business Awareness Real unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business decision making
- Understand organisational effectiveness
- Understand ethics and law in an accounting environment
- Understand the effective use of data in business
- Understand the importance of sustainability in business
Audit and Internal Controls Real unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of internal controls within an organisation
- Understand the audit and assurance framework
- Understand the planning and risk assessment process for audit engagements
- Evaluate internal control systems as part of the audit process
- Understand procedures for obtaining sufficient and appropriate evidence
- Review and report findings
Financial Accounting Real unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the reporting frameworks that underpin financial reporting
- Understand the accounting process
- Understand accounting standards for non-current assets
- Understand other accounting standards
- Prepare financial statements
- Interpret financial statements using ratio analysis
Management Accounting Real unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and implement the organisational planning process
- Use cost and management accounting techniques to aid control
- Use techniques to aid short-term and long-term decision making
- Understand and manage organisational liquidity
Principles of Taxation Real unit · Association of Accounting Technicians
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the United Kingdom (UK) tax system and ethical behaviour
- Calculate Income Tax and National Insurance contributions
- Identify types of income
- Calculate Capital Gains Tax payable by UK taxpayers
- Prepare tax computations for trading companies
- Understand administrative requirements of the UK’s tax regime
- Understand tax planning opportunities
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Internal Auditor
This work can lead to managing larger audits as an Internal Audit Manager, or to roles like Risk Manager or Financial Controller.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Association of Accounting Technicians rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Advanced Business AwarenessAudit and Internal ControlsFinancial AccountingManagement AccountingPrinciples of Taxation
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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You do “Audit and Internal Controls” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Lead it Apply
“Management Accounting” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Advanced Business Awareness, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for AAT Level 4 Diploma for Professional Accounting Technicians
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Association of Accounting Technicians.
- Advanced Business Awareness
- Audit and Internal Controls
- Financial Accounting
- Management Accounting
- Principles of Taxation
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