Skills developed through this qualification can lead to employment as: an accounts assistant, accounts payable and expenses supervisor an accounts payable clerk, assistant accountant, audit trainee, credit controller, finance assistant. This qualification can also open up a choice of great careers, as well as providing progress onto the AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting and a route to higher education. More than 30 UK universities and higher education institutes currently offer exemptions to AAT professional members enrolling on accounting and finance-related degrees.