Using the letters: MAAT

Hi Everyone,
Do other members use the MAAT letters after their name on their email signature? I was excited to add MAAT as soon as I qualified and I now have them on my email but my place of work is laid back and is certainly not corporate, I therefore feel a tad pretentious when using these letters around the office. Does anyone else use the letters on their email signature and where do you feel the letters are best suited? emails/letters/business cards/all/none?
Craig
Do other members use the MAAT letters after their name on their email signature? I was excited to add MAAT as soon as I qualified and I now have them on my email but my place of work is laid back and is certainly not corporate, I therefore feel a tad pretentious when using these letters around the office. Does anyone else use the letters on their email signature and where do you feel the letters are best suited? emails/letters/business cards/all/none?
Craig
Comments
If I feel a situation is OTT then I leave them off, depends what it is. What is your employer's policy on using letters?
I used to have them on my emails but when you have more letters after your name than you have in your name it looks a bit silly!
I tend to chop and change when I use them.
Proud of it.
You sould be too.
Thank you
I'm trying to decide whether to use my letters on my new appointment: Responsible Financial Officer (treasurer) for my local Parish Council. Can't decide whether it will look good that the RFO is an accountant, or whether I will look like I'm showing off.
i will be using MAAT on everything as soon as i am allowed
Tracy
Maybe it depends whether you work for a company or practice?
Working for a company I'd feel a bit pretentious having them on my footer.
But then again maybe I should put it on, we should do the most to point out our skills!
That made me smile - it's very British of you. I say go ahead and show off.
Didn't use my letters much when I was employed by someone else, except to add weight to a communication. Always use them now I have my own business.
I tend to use it when corresponding in financial matters by letter but not otherwise.
I couldn't wait to get letters after my name and even though my boss is also an MAAT and doesn't use it, I never thought twice about it. I worked really hard to earn them and intend to publicise my qualification!
Only used it on a letter once when I was sending back my acceptance of a contact of employment
Thanks
Taskey MAAT
does it go in brackets? help
I had it on my CV as AK, MAAT but it's in my e-mails sig as AK MAAT :P
Hi,
I have been wondering about letters after my name too..
I have completed Level 2 and 3 in accounts of AAT but not Level 4 and I have no intention to...
However, I have changed careers and gone in to payroll and currently completed level 2 aat payroll and about to sit the exam for level 3 on thursday.
Can I put any letters after my name, once completed both levels of AAT Payroll, as it is essentially a completed qualification?
Thanks
Jackie
Nope. Only certain things go in brackets, like BA (Hons) for example. When you get letters it would say if any of them go in brackets.
I put my letters after my name in a smaller font than my name, it just reads Monsoon BA (Hons) MAAT
I don't think you can get letters after your name for completing NVQ levels (same as you don't get letters for GCSEs or A Levels).
You've completed a qualification that can go on your CV, but as far as AAT goes, I think you only get letters when admitted to full membership - I don't know about the payroll qualification but I've never heard of any letters for it, but you may as well ask
thanks, CV now updated and sent out to a few employers in the hope..........
So until we register me as a Member in Practice, I believe my directorship in the business bars me from using MAAT after my name on business correspondence. Oh the price I pay for tax efficiency.
However I do still use the MAAT in a private capacity (e.g. in correspondence with HMRC and other agencies regarding my own personal affairs). I assume there's no problem with that - if anyone suspects I'm wrong on this point, please do say!
If you're a fully paid up full member you can use MAAT as much as you like, I think it's a separate issue.
It doesn't help that finding information on the AAT website is like trying to find Jack Sparrow's Isla de Muerta - "It cannot be found except by those who already know where it is"
I'll contact them to make sure.
No worries - hope it's not going to cause a problem!!