AAT Essentials: short finance training courses

Learn the essentials of business finance

AAT Essentials are short finance training courses designed to help you quickly learn crucial skills.

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They're ideal for non-finance staff looking for a better understanding of key financial processes, as well as finance and accounting professionals looking to keep their skills fresh.

Finance training for individuals

Every day, you make decisions that affect your business, your team, and your career. And whether it’s planning a budget, reviewing a forecast or trying to understand a set of numbers in a meeting, one truth keeps coming up:

Most decisions are financial - even if finance isn’t your job.

AAT Essentials fills that gap. These short, practical courses make budgets, reports and financial decisions clearer and far less stressful. Build the confidence to speak the language of business finance and make decisions you can stand behind.

Upcoming AAT Essentials courses

We run open AAT Essentials courses on a regular basis, delivered by expert trainers in a live online interactive format. 

Choose a course from the list below and click through to AAT Store to book your place. If you want to get a taster of AAT training, you can sign up for our free Introduction to Business Finance e-learning module

If you’re a business looking to train your team, register your interest here or on the course pages and we’ll get in touch. 

Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping

A grounding in accounting systems for those in finance departments but with limited bookkeeping experience.

Budgeting
Budgeting

Budgeting skills for business professionals without an accountancy or finance background.

Financial accounting
Financial accounting

Learn double-entry bookkeeping principles and common transactions.

Finance for non-finance managers
Finance for non-finance managers

Understand basic financial documents and how to interpret them.

Register your interest in other AAT Essentials courses

The following finance training courses run at varying times throughout the year, so register your interest to ensure that you’re informed of future start dates and don’t miss out. If you’re a business looking for group training, we can run them at any time for you, register your interest here or on the course pages and we’ll get in touch.

Capital expenditure
Capital expenditure

Learn the tools for strategic decision making: capital costs, lifetime returns and presenting and comparing diverse finance projects.

Fundamentals of financial accounting
Fundamentals of financial accounting

Ideal for those with no or limited bookkeeping experience, and those in a role where they code purchase orders.

Managing cash: keeping your business healthy
Managing cash: keeping your business healthy

Learn to record receipts and payments, reconcile bank statements and receipts and protect financial security.

Understanding accounting systems and controls
Understanding accounting systems and controls

Learn to use accounting system controls to protect your organisation from theft and errors before they take place.

Understanding and processing financial documents
Understanding and processing financial documents

Understand financial documents and processes and record keeping to work effectively and stay compliant.

Understanding profitability
Understanding profitability

Learn how to study selling prices and make sure costs are covered and goods and services are sold at the right price.

Finance training for businesses

Choose AAT Essentials for practical skills that can be applied immediately, to help you and your staff manage business finance more effectively, improving performance and increasing productivity.

Courses are delivered to suit you. For large groups of staff that require the same training, we can hold courses in-house at your offices, or at an external location. We can also tailor the training to meet your learning objectives with pick and mix modules from across the AAT Essentials programme.

Register your interest

Complete this form to register your interest in booking an AAT Essentials accounting and finance course for your staff, or attending a course as an individual.

We'll send you a free taster training session and our course brochure.