Accredited Accounting Technician (AAT) Examination

Scholarship

The aims of the HKIAAT Scholarship are to recognize academic merits; to encourage graduates of diploma to associate degree levels to pursue the examinations run by the HKIAAT; and to serve as a new source of financial aid for deserving students.

List of HKIAAT Scholarship recipients

Year 2009 - 2010
Year 2008 - 2009
Year 2007 - 2008

Eligibility

• Only institutions which have been accredited by the HKIAAT for exemption from its examinations are eligible for nomination of scholarships.
• The scholarship is open to full-time students of accounting diploma to associate degree programmes of not less than one academic year.
• The HKIAAT will select institutions according to cohort size of the programmes and/or number of students registered with the HKIAAT. The cohort size should not be less than 30 students, while Institutions with more than 300 students joining HKIAAT as students in the immediate past year may be considered for awarding an extra scholarship.
• Each institution, in any one location (e.g. HKIVE in Kwun Tong and HKIVE in Chai Wan will be considered as two different institutions) may nominate up to one final year student from each of its full-time accounting programmes meeting the criteria mentioned in 1 and 2 above. Programmes bearing the same award but with different duration from a institution in any one location should be treated as one programme (e.g. Higher Diploma in Accountancy (2 year or 4 year full time) awarded by HKIVE in Chai Wan will be entitled to have one nomination only.)
• The candidate nominated should be of good character and achieve outstanding performance in academic (top 5 students in the same cohort) and extra-curricular activities.
• A maximum of 20 scholarships will be granted for each year.

Award procedures

• Each year in around October, institutions which have been accredited by the HKIAAT for exemption from its examinations will be invited to nominate their students for the above scholarship. Nominations are to be submitted through the respective department or faculty heads of academic institutions.
• Completed nomination form, together with supporting documents (e.g. copies of transcript, certificate of merit, report of extra-curricular activities) and a letter of recommendation in support of each nomination, should be sent to the HKIAAT for consideration.
• Any institution which has been granted an award should not assume that the same award will be granted automatically the following year.
• The decision of the HKIAAT is final.
• The scholarship will be presented in the HKIAAT Prize Presentation Ceremony.

HKIAAT Scholarship Nomination Form Download


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Value and validity of Scholarship

• The scholarship is presented in kind. An award of around HK$9,130, in the form of a fee waiver, is used to cover a one-off student registration fees and examination/exemption fees for the Accredited Accounting Technician (AAT) Examination, Professional Assessment (PA) and Professional Bridging Examination (PBE).
• The validity of the scholarship is five years, meaning that the award will be forfeited after the validity period ends. All award recipients must commence to claim the scholarship within two years and complete the AAT Examination (by exemption or examination), PA and/or PBE within five years from the date of receiving the award. An undertaking on the commitment to claim exemptions and/or sit the AAT Examination, PA and/or PBE must be signed before receiving the award. Otherwise, the award will be withdrawn by the HKIAAT.