About Accountancy Learning
Specialising in the delivery of AAT training since 1992, Simon and Prue Deane set up Accountancy Learning (in Exeter) on January 1st 2012 (yes, we were working on New Year’s Day!)
Starting out with just 2 members of staff (aside from us), we grew rapidly and as of 2025, we now have a dedicated team of 39.
We are passionate about delivering the best possible service to our 1,000+ AAT students. The Standards and Behaviours instilled across our whole team can be summed up by one core goal:
“We will continually strive to exceed our customers’ expectations and pay attention to every detail”.
We want our students to graduate with top marks and become ‘gold standard’ bookkeepers/accounting technicians, and… to have enjoyed and grown as individuals during their AAT journey with us.
Delivering AAT via distance learning across the UK and AAT Accounting Apprenticeships in England, we were thrilled to be a multi-awarding winning AAT training provider:
- WINNER: AAT Champion Award 2017
- WINNER: AAT Champion Award 2018
- WINNER: AAT Distance Learning Training Provider of the Year 2019
- SHORTLISTED: AAT Apprenticeship Training Provider of the Year 2019
- SHORTLISTED: AAT Distance Learning Training Provider of the Year 2020
- SHORTLISTED: PQ Private Sector College of the Year 2023
- SHORTLISTED: AAT Apprenticeship Training Provider of the Year 2024 and PQ Private Sector College of the Year 2024
- SHORTLISTED: AAT Apprentice of the Year 2025 (two of our apprentices shortlisted)

We’re a friendly, close-knit team and we like to think of ourselves as a ‘rather large family’! We have plenty of fun inside and outside work – please see our team page to read more about us all and do see what we’re all up to on our Facebook page.
Whether or not you choose to study with us, we hope you find our website useful and informative, particularly our FAQs page which is packed full of ‘all things AAT’.
AAT is a terrific qualification that can lead to a wonderfully rewarding career within the world of accounting. Good luck!