AAT publishes Annual Report 2021: Working with agility, resilience and accountability

AAT has published its 2020–2021 Annual Report, providing an overview of the organisation’s performance during the last financial year.

Focusing on the theme of agility, resilience and accountability, the new report measures AAT’s success by the impact it has on people’s lives and careers, on businesses, and on economies and society as a whole. It focuses on what AAT has achieved, the environment it is operating in and the challenges ahead, alongside the financial statements.

AAT’s highlights in 2020-2021 include:

• inclusion of AAT qualifications on a list of fully-funded courses under the UK government’s new Lifetime Skills Guarantee from April 2021
• launch of our new Lifelong Learning Portal – which provides support material for students, training providers and members – attracting 75,200 unique users since its launch in April 2020
• a record-breaking year for the Informi website – AAT’s free website for small business owners and start-ups – with over 735,000 individual sessions and page impressions up by 62%
• successful adaption of AAT’s flagship, two-day annual conference into an online event. AAT Future Finance 2020 attracted 2,500 attendees – ten times the usual number – and was shortlisted for Best Online Conference at the Associations UK Awards 2020
• successful lobbying campaigns – including the suspension of Self-Assessment late filing penalties and helping to ensure that online platforms are now liable to collect and remit VAT in the UK, saving taxpayers £1.5 billion in online VAT fraud
• an extension of our finance training for employers, including six more AAT Essentials training courses, increasing the range of titles to ten. We also launched our new AAT Skills Store which offers online e-learning modules.

AAT President David Frederick said: "The 2020–2021 financial year saw AAT deliver a strong performance in a challenging operating environment. Despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic, we’ve continued to focus on our impact and the way we change lives and help individuals and businesses to succeed. Our staff, members and students have been at the heart of everything we’ve done and I’m proud to see how we’ve continued to build and position the organisation so it can re-emerge triumphantly and continue on its upward trajectory. We’ve been changing people’s lives for over 40 years now and we’ll continue to do so – whatever the future holds."

To download the full Annual Report and accounts visit the Annual Reports page.