AI in UK Finance – Workforce Threat or Strategic Opportunity?
How UK Employers Can Strengthen Their Finance Teams in an AI-Enabled World If you follow the headlines, it would be easy to assume artificial intelligence is sweeping through finance departments with redundancy notices in hand. Predictions of banking job losses across Europe and the US. Reports of accountants leaving the profession. Surveys suggesting some […]
Apprenticeships v Uni
Accountancy Apprenticeships v Uni – a great alternative! The cost of living crisis combined with the massive debts that can be incurred and no guarantee of finding a job at the end of the period, have made many students question the desirability of going to university. Why choose accountancy as a career? An accounting qualification, […]
Apprenticeships…
Apprenticeships are not just a qualification, they are much, much more… Apprenticeships are so much more than just a qualification, for example, when I deliver non-exam training I have often been asked about certificates of attendance. Some people seem to like collecting certificates but a collection of pieces of paper does not necessarily translate to […]
Talent Programme!
Here at Accountancy Learning, we are thrilled to be launching our Accountancy Apprenticeship Talent Programme! Having left school straight after my GCSE’s I decided that accountancy was the route I wanted to take. I worked full time to fund my studies as a distance learner and spent my weekends hidden away in the library tackling […]
Guide for SME’s
Guide for SME’s Using the Apprenticeship Service – creating your account and adding provider permissions Up until now, we have accessed funding from our Levy clients via the Apprenticeship Service (AS) and for our non-Levy clients (SMEs) via contracts with 3rd parties. However, towards the end of 2019, the DfE announced that the previous Apprenticeship […]
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Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships and Funding What Apprenticeships are offered? The new Apprenticeship Standards provide an excellent opportunity to add real value to the training received by your staff, funded through the Apprenticeship scheme. We offer the following apprenticeships: Accounts/Finance Assistant Apprenticeship (incl. AAT Level 2) Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship (incl. AAT Level 3) Professional Accounting Technician Apprenticeship (incl. […]
Completion of the Apprenticeship and Progression
Completion of the Apprenticeship and Progression An Apprenticeship now only has to last a minimum of 8 months, as a result of changes in August 2026 allowing “accelerated apprenticeships”. Because of the roll-on-roll-off nature of our programmes, we have always flexed the duration in order to match the requirements of the employer and abilities of […]
Enrolment and starting the apprenticeship
Enrolment and Starting the Apprenticeship This is the easy bit of the process! Once you have decided to enrol a member of staff onto our apprenticeship programme, we ask you to complete an enrolment request form (you can download this by clicking on the button below) and then submit it to us! DOWNLOAD ENROLMENT REQUEST […]