A-Level Accounting


If you're planning a career in Accounting, this popular distance learning A-Level course in Accounting provides the perfect theoretical background.  But you will also find it invaluable if you're planning to study other business related subjects.

Key Aims of the Course

The course will give you:

  • an ability to apply accounting concepts, principles and practices;
  • an understanding of the role of accounting as an information system for monitoring, problem-solving and decision making, and the place of accounting in changing economic, social and technological environments;
  • an ability to examine and evaluate accounting policies and practices critically and analytically;
  • improved skills of communication, analysis, interpretation and presentation of both qualitative and quantitative accounting information.

Syllabus and Assessment


This course prepares you for the Cambridge (CIE) A-Level syllabus 9706. The full A-Level qualification comprises exams at AS and at A2 levels. We have chosen this syllabus as it is the one best suited to distance learners.

Assessment is by four written papers of which two at AS level are of 1 hour and 1 hour and 30 minutes, and two at A2 level are of 1 hour and two hours.


The Distance Learning Course

Your study text and your online materials file  will contain everything you need to start studying right away. The course is designed specifically to cover the above syllabus. So you can be confident that you will learn everything you need to achieve a high grade in your coursework and in the examination.

Your Tutor and Your Assignments

Your tutor is your personal learning coach, who will be available throughout your course to provide you with detailed feedback on your assignments, and give you advice and encouragement throughout your course. You will complete assignments at regular intervals, which will help to embed your learning, and also enable you and your tutor to gauge your progress. 

Completing all your assignments will hugely increase your chances of a good exam grade. When you have completed each assignment, you send it to your tutor through our online learning management system for assessment. Your tutor will provide you with rapid and detailed feedback, so you'll remain motivated throughout the course and see your skills and knowledge improving month by month.

Course Fees