Welcome to Halesowen College

This course provides an exciting combination of practical accountancy and IT skills, which are ideally suited to the requirements of a modern accounting environment.  

What will I do?

• complete level 2 in the first year
• complete level 3 in the second year
• study one A Level in addition to the course

What will I study?
Unit 1 - Recording Income and Receipts

• Accounting for money received by a business

    
Unit 2 - Making and Recording Payments

• Accounting for money paid out by the business

Unit 3 - Preparing Ledger Balances and Initial Trial Balance

• Closing the account as preparation for finding a company’s profit or loss

Unit 4 - Supplying Information for Management Control

• Simple costing to help management make decisions

Unit 21 - Working with Computers

• Includes computerised accounts

Unit 22 - Contribute to the Maintenance of a Healthy, Safe and Productive Working Environment

• Employees’ responsibility for keeping up health and safety in a workplace

Unit 23 - Achieving Personal Effectiveness

• How to organise your work in the most efficient manner

How will I be assessed?

• All units will be assessed by a skills test.  Unit 3 also involves an exam.

What do I need?

• 4 or 5 GCSEs at grade C, including English Language and Maths

Where can it take me?

• College - AAT level 4
• University - accountancy degree
• Employment - accountancy environment

Anything else?

• NVQ 2 is completed in the first year and NVQ 3 in the second year; you will also study one A Level subject
• AAT Level 3 attracts UCAS points