Apprenticeships are formal, nationally recognised training programmes. As an apprentice you will have the opportunity to achieve a qualification while developing knowledge, skills and experience in the workplace.

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As an apprentice you will be employed – earning a wage, whilst benefiting from an invaluable mix of theoretical learning and practical training. An apprenticeship provides an excellent foundation for your career and may be a perfect starting place for progression to further professional qualifications and the route to becoming a Chartered Accountant.

Under the Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship, apprentices will achieve the knowledge element of the apprenticeship standard by studying the content of the AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting Level 3. Although not a requirement of the apprenticeship, apprentices and employers are encouraged to work towards achievement of this qualification in addition to the full apprenticeship standard. This element is taught on a block release study programme of three days a month here at our offices in Bath.

As well as building technical knowledge, the apprenticeship helps apprentices to develop the skills and behaviours essential for their role in the workplace and the sector in which they work. We will support apprentices and the employer to meet all the requirements of the apprenticeship standard.
Those starting under this apprenticeship would normally have acquired knowledge equivalent to that gained under the AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting Level 2, have A Levels or equivalent, or have appropriate accounting experience.

Apprentices on the Professional Accounting Technician Apprenticeship will achieve their knowledge element of the apprenticeship standard by studying the content of the AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting Level 4. Although not a requirement of the apprenticeship, apprentices and employers are encouraged to work towards achievement of this qualification in addition to the full apprenticeship standard. This element is taught on a block release study programme of three days a month here at our offices in Bath.

This apprenticeship builds on existing technical knowledge and helps apprentices to further develop their wider professional skills and behaviours essential to success in an office environment. We will support apprentices and the employer to meet all the requirements of the apprenticeship standard.

Those starting under this apprenticeship would normally have acquired the knowledge as gained through the AAT Advanced Diploma in Accounting Level 3.

White Horse is not a recruitment agency but can sometimes help school leavers to find a trainee position within firms of accountants in the South West.

Please call us to discuss how we may be able to help or send your CV to information@whitehorseltd.co.uk.

White Horse is a specialist accountancy training provider that has been teaching AAT for more than 20 years and has been delivering apprenticeships in accountancy since 1995. We aim to provide high quality, accredited vocational training which is relevant to your personal employment aims, your employer’s needs and those of the local economy.

Because we are accountancy specialists and we work very closely with firms of accountants we know which skills you need to succeed in the workplace.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our teaching, and on the help, support, information and advice we give to students. This is reflected in our outstanding success rates in both AAT and apprenticeships.