Technician Level Choices

System
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edited 10:25AM in AAT student discussion
Hi

I have just sat my FRA exam and will be moving onto the Technician Level in January, could some one please enlighten me on the different choies this level has and what all the exam papers are about?

Many Thanks
Tracey x

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Technician Level Choices

    DFS - Harder version of FRA
    PEV & PCR - Harder versions of ECR.

    Then optional (2 of the 4):

    Cash Management - Pretty easy and you don't have to do a exam.
    Audit - Not done this but only really useful if your..well..auditing, no exam again.
    Personal Tax - Tax on the individual
    Business Tax - Tax on the business

    DFS & Business Tax are the two hardest exams. PEV & PCR aren't that difficult and Personal tax is fairly simple when you put it into perspective with Business Tax. I'm told that if you want to go onto CIMA/ACCA your better off doing business tax now so you have a better understanding later on though.

  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Technician Level Choices

    Thanks thats great info, bit of food for thought over Xmas so i can decide what to do.

    Have a good Xmas

    Tracey
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Technician Level Choices

    Hi

    I did cash management and audit as these were more fexible since they weren't examinations. Although I dont work in audit, the audit option was quite useful as it covered aspects of accounting systems and controls.

    As for which is better if you go on to CIMA or ACCA or ACA/ICAEW, cash management, audit and tax are in them all so it doesnt really make much difference and the general level of tax in ACCA or CIMA is equivalent or less, so choice could depend on wether you want to cover tax once or twice. As for ACA/ICAEW you can get partial exmptions for audit and/or tax, and so only needing top up papers.

    Neil

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