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Accounting

A Level

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Accounting - A Level HF1-ACCOAL/C01

Venue
Havant Campus

Type of study
A Levels

Dates
(2 years)

Examination board
AQA Education

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Overview

This is a thought-provoking and challenging course. It will provide you with valuable insight into how a business records its financial transactions and how this information can be used to understand its performance and efficiency.

If you enjoy working with numbers and solving problems, Accounting could be for you. You will develop a thorough knowledge of all aspects of financial and management accounting, as well as broadening your understanding of the financial sector.

5 GCSEs at grade 4 or above to include grade 5 in English and Mathematics.

In Year One you will study:
The role of the accountant in business
– Types of business organisations and sources of finance
– The double entry system of recording financial transactions
– Verification of accounting records, including preparing and correcting the trial balance, bank reconciliation statements and ledger control accounts
– Application of accounting concepts and calculation of accounting adjustments including depreciation, irrecoverable debts and accruals and prepayments
– Preparing financial statements for sole tradersand companies
– Analysis and evaluation of financial information
– Budgeted financial statements
– Marginal costing, break-even and decisionmaking situations
– In Year Two you will study:
– Problem-solving skills such as coping with incomplete records
– Preparing more complex financial statements for companies, including the schedule of noncurrent sets and statement of cash flows
– Preparing partnership accounts
– More complex analysis and evaluation of financial information with communication to relevant stakeholders Further aspects of budgeting to include cash, sales, production, purchases and labour budgets
– Absorption and activity-based costing
– Standard costing and variance analysis
– Capital investment appraisal techniques such as payback period and net present value

Accounting is taught within a business environment. All of our lecturers are subject specialists with industry expertise, Digital technology is embedded throughout the curriculum equipping you with skills that are industry-recognised, including cloud based applications for your onward career journey. The College offers a variety of learning and teaching approaches including lectures, tutorials, studios, workshops, presentations and group discussions.You will have the opportunity to hear visiting speakers from universities and the accounting profession and meet with ex-students and employers from accounting firms.

You will be required to complete regular pieces of work throughout the two years for tutor assessment by your lecturer, though this does not form part of the final grading.

Your final grade will be determined by examinations in your second year, you will be required to sit two three-hour exams which will cover all the topics taught on the course.Each exam is worth 50% of the overall mark. Accounting is taught within a business environment. All of our lecturers are subject specialists with industry expertise.

This qualification is particularly useful to those who wish to proceed to Higher Education or who wish to undertake professional qualifications in the accounting field (particularly AAT, ACCA and CIMA courses). Possession of an accounting qualification may also be advantageous to those wishing to pursue more general business courses or business career opportunities. Many of our students go on to study accountancy or actuarial science at university either on its own, or in combination with other subjects such as: finance, business, economics or management.

The College is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice.


I would say it’s a college that really balances academia with fun, there is lots of extra-curricular stuff that you can get involved in. It has a really good work/life balance.

Laura Hagedorn, A Level student

My experience at the College was great, it’s very different to school, and I think it’s a good step to going to university. The support was amazing, I loved all of my teachers, they helped me through everything. The College is friendly and you will succeed.

Heidi Adamson Brattland, A Level student

I’m very, very happy, I didn’t expect to do so well. The College has been helpful and supportive. I loved my courses, and the teachers were really good – every single one of them. The facilities are great, but it’s the staff that really make this place.

Matthew Randell, A Level student