Accountancy and Finance Level 2 Apprenticeship

Course details

Course time:

Various

Course date:

Various

Course location:

Off Site

Contact details

Email:

apprenticeships@abingdon-witney.ac.uk

Phone:

01235 216 216

An Accountants or Finance Assistant supports the finance team within a business and is responsible for assisting a team of accountants with junior accounting duties.

An accounts or finance assistant’s work could include basic bookkeeping activities, working with sales and purchase ledgers, running calculations to ensure that records and payments are correct, recording of cash and data entry. Accounts or finance assistants can work in almost any sector.

Duration:

• 13 months practical training period, plus 3 months for End Point Assessment

Delivery model:

• Work-based training with your employer

• Day release during term time (approx. 26 days per year at Abingdon or Witney)

• Level 1 Functional Skills in Maths and English (7 days at college for each, if required)

• Off the job training will count for at least 6 hours a week of an apprentice’s time at work

Qualifications included:

• Level 1 Functional Skills in English and Maths

• AAT Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Accounting

• Level 2 Accountants or Finance Assistant Apprenticeship

End Point Assessment:

• In-tray test

• Portfolio

• Structured Interview

Course units

What will apprentices learn?

• Awareness of elements of commercial law such as contracts, data protection or Anti Money Laundering

• The importance of upholding relevant codes of conduct

• Awareness of the impact of technology on business and its accounting and finance functions.

• Understanding of own role within the context of your organisation

• Understanding of transactional processes of accounting and their use within a finance function

• Understanding of what makes a business or organisation successful, through either buying or selling products or supplying services to a market

• Understanding of how accounting systems and processes allows a business to keep track of all types of financial transactions

• Knowledge of a range of routine accounts reports, reports and their use within the finance function

• Understanding of the basics of internal control within own organisation

• Awareness of basic accountancy concepts and double entry bookkeeping

• Understanding of bookkeeping controls

• Understanding of the cost recording system within an organisation

• Understanding of the differences between Financial and Management Accounting

• Understanding corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability within organisations

• Understanding the importance of the need to keep up to date with relevant policies, procedures, regulatory or system changes

What next?

The accountancy and finance knowledge developed in this qualification is also the underpinning knowledge needed for the higher-level accountancy and financial skills developed in the AAT Advanced and Professional Accounting Qualifications.

Entry criteria

Applicants are likely to have 5 GCSEs A*- C / 9 - 4, including Maths and English, or equivalent, and will need to demonstrate the ability to achieve all elements of the apprenticeship during their programme, including working in a suitable job role.

Fee information

Free to apprentices. This apprenticeship has a £6,000 funding band. Small companies will need to make a contribution of £300; large companies could pay through the apprenticeship levy if they have funds available.

Qualifications received

Qualifications included:

• Level 1 Functional Skills in English and Maths

• AAT Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Accounting

• Level 2 Accountants or Finance Assistant Apprenticeship

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