SCO Level 1

Award in Book Keeping AAT Level 1

Campus
Off Premises
Start Date(s)
From August 2025

This qualification covers a range of skills and the relevant supporting knowledge in one mandatory unit - Bookkeeping Fundamentals.

The qualification is assessed in one end-of-qualification assessment. When completing this qualification, you will develop an understanding of the role of the bookkeeper, including the need to produce timely and accurate work and to follow ethical principles.

The Level 1 Award in Bookkeeping allows you to develop practical bookkeeping skills. This qualification may help you move on to further study in accountancy or bookkeeping with AAT, offer a route into employment, or be of interest to those already employed.

Students will learn underpinning theory including how to identify assets, liabilities, income, expenses, capital profit or loss, and the differences between trading for cash and trading on credit. Students will also develop the skills to process customer and supplier transactions, to enter receipts and payments into the cash book and check amounts against the bank statement in preparation for bank reconciliation. Students will be introduced to the dual effect of transactions. This is a fundamental underpinning concept for double-entry bookkeeping and will support students who go on to study bookkeeping at Level 2.

For the best chance of success, we recommend that you begin your studies with a good standard of English and maths.

The course will be delivered in a classroom with an expectation that learners will complete some independent study online in their own time.

The skills developed by studying this qualification will give you a solid base from which to seek employment with greater confidence or enable you to progress to the next level of learning.

The skills developed in this qualification can lead to employment in junior or supporting administrative roles in companies across a wide range of sectors, for example, as a:

trainee bookkeeper

accounts administrator

billing/payments administrator/coordinator

accounts junior

accounts receivable/payable assistant

procurement and finance assistant

assistant cashier.

The skills developed in this qualification may also underpin those developed further in the following Level 2 qualifications:

Level 2 Certificate in Bookkeeping

Level 2 Certificate in Accounting

You must successfully achieve one mandatory unit assessment to achieve this qualification. The proportion of this qualification assessed by externally marked assessment is 100%.

The assessment in this qualification:

s a computer based test, set and marked by AAT

It is time-limited and will take place under controlled conditions.

This qualification is not graded. To pass the qualification, you must pass one mandatory assessment. "