A Level Accounting

Course Overview

The process of accounting supports businesses in the measuring, monitoring and planning of their operations.

People skilled in accounting should be able to tell whether or not the business is performing well financially, the strengths and weaknesses of the business and to communicate their results to the owners of the business. The process of Accounting is the practical ability to record, classify and summarise data and business related information.

Course Content

AS Level
Unit 1: ACCN1 – Introduction to Financial Accounting
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes

Unit 2: ACCN2 – Financial and Management Accounting
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes

A2 Level
Unit 3: ACCN3 – Further Aspects of financial Accounting
Written examination: 2 hours

Unit 4: ACCN4 – Further Aspects of Management Accounting
Written examination: 2 hours

This course is divided into two units, each of which is divided into modules to support the learning process. At the end of each module there is a tutor-marked assessment which, when completed, should be sent to the tutor.

Each unit of the course corresponds to the examination module. The lessons are of different length and difficulty. Some of them have references to carefully selected texts, articles and websites to provide the student with extra practice, summaries and examples of topics covered in the lesson.

The student will learn the fundamentals of record-keeping and the purposes, techniques and consequences of effective financial accounting