Can members still take AAT exams?

jow774

Im hopefully finished AAT next week, but am interested in doing ATT. I notice you get exemptions from Business Tax, but I havent taken this, its seems a cheaper way of doing it to take BTC through AAT first to get the exemption, does anyone know if you can do this if you become a member?

anniem

I can't see any reason why not. Just buy the book, learn it and put in for the exam. Simples, yes?

I'm a distance learner and had nothing other than the book to learn from and passed my BTC exam first time. Like you I want to do ATT too although I only decided after studying tax, as I enjoyed tax (I'm very strange!)

Just one piece of advice. If you put in for the December exam and fail they you will have to buy a new book for the exam next June/December exams. New books are issued each year based on the previous year's tax rules, because the tax rules/limits change annually! So each book only covers two exams.

Good luck!

Monsoon

I don't see why you can't take an extra AAT module.

Having taken BT at AAT and not knowing about the exemption, I took the BTAP exam for ATT (and passed).

Reasons for taking AAT over ATT:

AAT exam much easier (I'm one of those who finishes exams early; I was writing up til the last minute on the ATT 3 hour exam)
AAT cheaper exam than ATT

Reason to take ATT over AAT:

If you are taking ATT to further your tax knowledge (as I did) then it's possibly an idea to take the BTAP exam. My goodness, at the time it felt SO much more in depth than the AAT but if you have some practice experience then it isn't that much, the only thing that threw me was deferred tax as I'd never studied that for AAT or come across it in practice at that point. I think you'll learn more studying for the ATT exam than the AAT one. I will hazard a guess that the AAT syllabus might be taught in a more simple way and depending on your current knowledge one might be more appropriate over the other for that reason.

Bear in mind my info is a bit out of date (AAT exam 2006, ATT exam 2008).

Hope that helps.

Paisley

jow774 wrote: »

Im hopefully finished AAT next week, but am interested in doing ATT. I notice you get exemptions from Business Tax, but I havent taken this, its seems a cheaper way of doing it to take BTC through AAT first to get the exemption, does anyone know if you can do this if you become a member?

Hi, just wondering if you got an answer from the AAT about this? I am now in a similar situation (except for the ATT bit). I recently completed all AAT units that were taught at college, applied for membership and was accepted as a member yesterday. However, I am booked in to sit Business Tax at college next Friday (as an extra self taught unit). It's only just dawned on me that I am no longer a student member. I do hope this is not going to cause me problems now. Think I'll be ringing them on Monday morning.

Paisley

Yes, members can sit extra modules if they want to.

babsa

Business Tax exams are Computer Based Assessments now. You can sit them when you are ready and it takes 6 weeks to get the results back so if you fail you can put in for a resit as soon as you want. If you are luck you can sometimes get the results back in 5 weeks. You are not restricted to 2 exams a year now.