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ACCA Courses

ACCA SBL Exam Preparation Webinar Sessions
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How To Study Webinar Sessions
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AAT

Isabella, The Youngest AAT Qualified Level 2 Bookkeeper
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Apprenticeships

First Intuition launches Apprentice of the Quarter Award!
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AAT

First Intuition launches classroom AAT courses in Exeter
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ACCA Courses

ACCA new syllabus: What’s changing and how you can prepare
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AAT

How to stay motivated as an accountancy student
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Apprenticeships

Level 7 Apprenticeship Funding Changes
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Learners

Has the penny dropped yet about alternatives to university?
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ACCA Courses

Hear from Nathaniel Bennett, our Apprentice of the Quarter
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FI Gatwick Open Day – 16th July 2025
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CIMA Courses

CIMA Revision Webinars
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Learners

Mock Exams – why they are the key to exam success
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Employers

Recruitment & Retention
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CIMA Courses

Behind the Exam Room Door: Surprising Insights from a CIMA Marker
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FI Updates

First Intuition’s new Exeter space
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ACCA Courses

ACCA or CIMA: Which is better?
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AAT

Narrative tasks in the AAT level 4 qualification
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Accountancy

Sustainability in Accountancy
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Accountancy

Meet the Birmingham Team
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Apprenticeships

First Intuition Think Tank (FITT) Forums 2025
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AAT

AAT Courses Launching in First Intuition Gatwick
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FI Stories

ESG: Working with charities to lift spirits at FI
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Apprenticeships

National Apprenticeship Week 2025
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AAT

First Intuition is Shortlisted for AAT Training Provider Awards 2025
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Apprenticeships

Accountancy Students Guide
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Learners

5 Steps on How to Become a Professional Accountant
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Study Techniques

First Intuition ICAEW Revision Preparation Sessions
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Accountancy

Stay Connected with First Intuition
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Apprenticeships

FI launches new partnership with LTSB to support education and social mobility
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AAT

Monitor Review and Report
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Courses

Open Day at Our Maidstone Study Centre
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FI Updates

ICAEW’s ACA Update: Qualification Overview
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ACCA Courses

Exam Revision and Techniques to Ace your ACCA Exams
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Careers

Mental Health in the Workplace: FI Inclusion Webinar Series
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AAT

Flexed Budgets
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AAT

How To Pass Drafting and Interpreting Financial Statements
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Apprenticeships

Accountancy Summer School 2026
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AAT

Unconventional study techniques for exam preparation
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FI Stories

First Intuition opens second London training centre
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Apprenticeships

Accountancy Apprenticeships in Essex
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AAT

AAT Distance Learning – 18 Month Live Courses
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ACCA Courses

FI Birmingham – Come and meet our team
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AAT

Looking for a profession in Finance? Audit? Taxes?
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The New Destination for Accountancy Training in Hull
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Apprenticeships

Unlock the power of habits to get more study time
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Employers

How to run successful work experience
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ACCA Courses

Bad habits made by accountancy students
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Learners

Top 5 Revision Tips!
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FI Stories

First Intuition Ltd made the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list 2024!
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AAT

FIRST INTUITION IN COLCHESTER
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FI Stories

First Intuition shortlisted for 6 PQ Magazine Awards!
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AAT

First Intuition Makes Waves in Hull!
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AAT

Variances
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Apprenticeships

Student Resources
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Apprenticeships

First Intuition Accountancy Academies 2026
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Learners

Cheating in Assessments
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ACCA Courses

Choosing ACCA paper variants – UK or International?
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FI Stories

How to become a CIMA Prizewinner
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AAT

AAT Personal Tax and Business Tax Assessments – Finance Act 2023
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Employers

Adapting to AI: Charting Success in Your Accounting Career
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AAT

Depreciation
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Careers

Train your finance team with FI in Essex or study with us.
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AAT

Accruals and Prepayments – Cracking the code
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Courses

Meet our team in Essex
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Apprenticeships

Why should you attend our Accountancy Summer School?
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Careers

Vacancies at local firms and companies
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Study Techniques

Why should I mark my own mock?
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Apprenticeships

Accountancy Summer School 2024
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Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity in the work place
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Careers

A Recap of Accountancy Summer School 2023
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Learners

AAT Virtual Events
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FI Updates

Refer a friend scheme – FI Manchester & FI Liverpool
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Employers

Your Checklist for Getting the Right Accountancy Training Provider
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AAT

AAT optional units – how to decide which ones to study?
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Careers

Post-Qualification Education Programmes
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AAT

A review of Qualifications 2022 so far
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Careers

Want a career in accountancy? Life after school or university
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FI Stories

PQ Shortlist – A huge achievement
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AAT

AAT Q2016 Professional Synoptic Syllabus
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AAT

Robyn’s journey to completing AAT
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AAT

AAT Synoptics
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FI Updates

New First Intuition Centre Opening in Liverpool
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AAT

Careers in Finance: How to become a bookkeeper?
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Apprenticeships

Why are apprenticeships the future of the accountancy industry?
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Apprenticeships

Meet FI Apprenticeship Skills Coach, Rachael Street
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AAT

Internal Accounting Systems and Controls: The Fraud Triangle
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Learners

Life After AAT
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Careers

Meet the Skills Coach: Tracey Hornigold, Quality and Compliance Lead, FI London
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Apprenticeships

Academy success in Yorkshire
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Learners

AAT Synoptic Revision Webinars
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Employers

First Intuition Wins Skills Provider of the Year
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Employers

How to Cultivate an Outstanding Culture
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Careers

Matrix Accreditation for FI Chelmsford
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AAT

AAT Q2022 Level 3 Business Awareness – PESTLE analysis
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FI Updates

Meet the Tutor: Rosie Bennett, FI Birmingham & Online Centre
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FI Updates

Meet the Tutor: Hannah Campbell, FI Birmingham
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Careers

Accountancy Summer School 2023
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AAT

Making The Most Out of Your AAT Mock Exams
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Apprenticeships

FI Cambridge receives Outstanding rating in Ofsted report
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Careers

What careers could your accountancy qualification lead to?
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AAT

AAT Distance Learning Instalment Plans
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Employers

Yorkshire Accounting Salary Survey 2022
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FI Stories

Maidstone Accountancy Summer School 2022 Insights
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Apprenticeships

Employer Forum: School leaver engagement and programmes – Gen Z
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AAT

AAT Q2022 – The Level 2 Apprenticeship
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Courses

First Intuition Canterbury – Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship (AAT Level 2)
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Employers

Overcoming resourcing issues in Cambridge
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AAT

AAT Q2022
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Learners

Transfer Pricing
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Apprenticeships

2022 Employer report: How recruitment, development and retention has adapted
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Employers

Keeping your People and Talent Strategy Relevant
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Employers

Food and Finance Forum
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Learners

AAT Q2022 – Level 3 Diploma in Accounting
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Employers

AAT in Southend – Meet Karen, our AAT Curriculum Lead
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FI Updates

Why are we opening a new centre in Southend?
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Apprenticeships

How to build your existing talent and make the most out of your apprentices
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Courses

AAT Level 2 is coming to First Intuition Canterbury, Kent
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Apprenticeships

2022 – FI February Employer Forum
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Apprenticeships

Meet the ACCA Apprentice – Rob Harris
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Apprenticeships

From AAT Apprentice to Made in Manchester Award Winner
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Employers

Fashion and Finance Forum
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FI Updates

Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce Spring Expo
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Apprenticeships

Meet the AAT Apprentice – Millie-May Burton
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Apprenticeships

Meet the AAT Apprentice – Rebecca Fidgett
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Apprenticeships

Why start an apprenticeship programme?
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Apprenticeships

Meet the ICAEW Apprentice – Ella Stone
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Apprenticeships

Meet the Accountancy Apprentice – Rikki Viskin
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FI Stories

How to become a CIMA Highest Achiever
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Advanced Bookkeeping – AAT Level 3
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Bookkeeping Controls – AAT Level 2
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Spreadsheets – AAT Level 3
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Indirect Tax – AAT Level 3
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Management Accounting: Budgeting – AAT Level 4
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Using Accounting Software – AAT Level 2
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Bookkeeping Transactions – AAT Level 2
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Elements of Costing – AAT Level 2
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Apprenticeships

National Apprenticeship Week 2022 Itinerary
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Apprenticeships

Accountancy careers – where do I start?
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Apprenticeships

Exam Day Nerves
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Technical Articles

Don’t let ratios catch you out!
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Employers

First Intuition Think Tank (FITT) Forums 2022
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Apprenticeships

What are accountancy qualifications? (Apprentices Guide)
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Apprenticeships

How to become an apprentice? (Apprentices Guide)
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Apprenticeships

FI Chelmsford is OUTSTANDING – Ofsted’s official verdict
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Learners

What is AAT Distance Learning?
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Apprenticeships

Resources for Schools
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Apprenticeships

Resources for Apprentices and Students
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Employers

Football and Finance Forum
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Technical Articles

How to identify errors that do not require a suspense account
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Employers

Leadership Lunch and Learn – Leading a Team to Success
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Personal Development

CPD Courses
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Employers

Retaining and Attracting Qualified Staff – FITT Forum
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Apprenticeships

Accountancy Academy 2021
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Employers

How the Pandemic has Changed the Accountancy Industry – FITT Forum
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Apprenticeships

Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard – The new entry point?
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Careers

Onboarding the ‘COVID Generation’ – FITT Forum
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Courses

What’s the difference between ICAEW and ACCA?
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Employers

How to Transition to Hybrid Working
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Apprenticeships

Trainee Recruitment
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Apprenticeships

Onboarding Processes
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Careers

Hot Topic Resources
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Learners

Mark Up and Margin AAT
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FI Updates

The New FI Canterbury Centre… Offering AAT Level 3!
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Industry News

ICAEW study materials go paperless
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FI Stories

First Intuition shortlisted for 9 PQ Magazine Awards!
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Apprenticeships

Skills for jobs: FI comment on UK Government lifelong learning white paper
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Apprenticeships

Meet the accounting apprentice: Abbie Hartley
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Apprenticeships

NAW 2021: Why start an apprenticeship programme?
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FI Stories

How to become an ICAEW Prizewinner
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Employers

First Intuition Think Tank (FITT) Forums 2021
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Learners

Starting a Career in Accounting
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Employers

First Intuition Think Tank (FITT) Forums 2021
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FI Updates

AAT Online Live
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FI Stories

First Intuition Reading celebrates it’s 10 year anniversary
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Learners

Looking for your first job in accountancy and don’t know where to go?
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Employers

Remote recruitment, attraction and selection of candidates- FITT Forum
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Employers

First Intuition Think Tank (FITT) Forums 2020
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Learners

First Intuition’s AATitude Festival Roundup
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Learners

Careers in Accountancy & Finance
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Employers

Online Delivery – First Intuition Think Tank Friday
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Learners

Southampton Computer Based Exams
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Employers

Providing internal training remotely to your teams
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Employers

Returning to the Workplace – First Intuition Think Tank Friday
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Employers

Remote Management of Junior Staff – First Intuition Think Tank Friday
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FI Updates

Computer based exams after lockdown
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Learners

Am I ready to sit my exam?
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Learners

How to study an accountancy course at home.
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Wellness

How to work from home with kids around
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Employers

Accountancy Employers Update – courses, exams and apprenticeships
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Technical Articles

What is Goodwill in accounting?
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Apprenticeships

What’s it like to be a level 7 apprentice?
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FI Stories

CIMA High Achiever Award: Tom Palmer
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FI Stories

Exam success: A fresh start with FI
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Personal Development

Helping you to prepare for difficult interview questions
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Technical Articles

Basis Period
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FI Stories

From cooking for the Royal Family to training as an accountant
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Apprenticeships

Life after exam results
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FI Stories

A remarkable accomplishment from one of our CIMA students
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FI Stories

Accountancy Academy Cambridge 2019
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Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships Skills Days: Teaching the skills employers are actively searching for
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Personal Development

Can I be a leader when I’m not in a management role?
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Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship versus Exam only route: The Key Differences
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Personal Development

Chasing Butterflies
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Technical Articles

Time-series analysis- calculating the seasonality and trend
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Apprenticeships

Key factors in launching a successful apprenticeship programme – Issue two
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FI Updates

Tutor of the year nominee, Phil Toomer, is an ‘asset’ to the team
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FI Stories

From AAT Apprentice to Managing Partner
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Technical Articles

Cost classification
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FI Stories

Congratulations to Denitsa Gavrilova for achieving 100% in her Advanced Synoptic assessment! 
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FI Updates

First Intuition Cambridge are recruiting!
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Learners

Reading Computer Based Exams
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Study Techniques

The 4 Exam preparation mistakes you really don’t want to make.
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Industry News

Get ready for CIMA 2019 at FI
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Technical Articles

Variances
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Technical Articles

Study tips for levels 2 and 3 on inventory valuation
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Technical Articles

How to account for bad debts
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Technical Articles

Trial Balance
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Technical Articles

Why do we need Accruals and Prepayments?
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Learners

Monika loves the support we offer AAT students
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