If you enjoy working with numbers and solving problems, accounting could be for you. This course looks at how a business records its costs and revenue and how these financial statements can be used to understand past performance and manage the business effectively. It’s an ideal preparation for studying accounting or business at university and a future career in accountancy, management or running your own business.

In your AS year, you’ll learn accounting standards such as the double entry system to trial balance, how to prepare year-end and final accounts and cash flow statements, analyse business performance using accounting ratios and produce simple cash budgets. In your A2 year, you’ll discover how accounting skills and techniques, including product costing, budgeting, breakeven analysis and capital expenditure appraisal, are used to manage a business.

All modules are assessed by exam.

You’ll have opportunities to visit the Houses of Parliament, the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Washington DC. You’ll be able to take part in the ACCA Business Challenge and hear regular talks from visiting speakers.