Thinking about a move into accounting? This diploma covers financial accounting, costing, budgeting, tax and audit. Study online, start any day, and sit AAT exams when ready.
Financial accounting, management accounting, tax and audit in one course.
There are no entry rules. Bring experience or bring none.
Twelve months of access, opened from any browser at any hour.
Finance teams always need people who can prepare and read accounts. Days look like ledgers, reports, tax deadlines and a lot of Excel.
Prepare the accounts an accountant signs off.
Keep the cash cycle moving.
Hold the day to day finance work together.
Own supplier payments end to end.
Support VAT and income tax filing.
Run pay, leave and records.
Join up finance across a business.
Keep a clean set of books for clients.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every job is different, and some ask for more study or experience.
Ten blocks, from first principles to audit.
Three points that matter here.
Spreadsheet work sits inside the accounting topics, not beside them.
Existing accounting study or work can be put forward for recognition.
You work with the software small practices use daily.
Plus a year of AAT membership
Issued by the college when the course is done.
Free, with the Knowledge Hub, events and updates.
One attempt each, booked with Pitman Training.
Say which part of accounting you are aiming at.
An advisor covers exams, timing and prior learning.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Sit the knowledge quiz and get moving.
None at all. There are no prerequisites to enrol.
You can apply for recognition of prior learning based on study or work experience.
Twelve months, and the course runs to about 300 hours of study.
The college sets none. AAT sets five assessments, and this diploma waives three.
You book directly with Pitman Training. The college gives you a code for the exam and centre you choose.
The funded attempt is used. That applies if it is cancelled, missed or you cannot sit it.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, and the college is an AAT Approved Training Provider. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. It is built to carry you toward AAT assessments, with three of the five waived.
Five more modules are due to be announced on 1 September 2026.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy.
It trades as The Career Academy Limited, company number 576180. It is an AAT Approved Training Provider and a Xero Partner. It is also an IAB Accredited Training Provider.
Think of the first set of accounts you prepare and hand over finished.