Description
About our Course
The 240-credit level 4 diploma in accounting and finance and level 5 diploma in business management courses are meant to get students to the last year of a related undergraduate degree in accounting and finance as quickly as possible. These degrees can be earned online or on campus at UK universities.
The first year of a university degree is equal to the level 4 modules and assignments in this course. The tasks and modules at level 5 correspond to the second year of a university degree.
Ten level 4 modules (120 credits) and ten level 5 modules (120 credits) make up this course. Six written tasks are included in each level. A student will obtain 120 credits and be eligible to apply for an exemption from the first year of a university degree course if they choose to study just at level 4.
Every module includes roughly 40 hours of guided instruction and an extra 30 to 50 hours of optional instruction. These resources include suggested books, suggested tasks, and online sources.
This course is eligible for ELCAS funding.
Qualification
- Qualification: Level 4 Diploma in Accounting and Finance – 610/0796/1
- Qualification: Level 5 Diploma in Business Management – 601/6049/4
Course Content Level 4
The business environment
Examine external factors that might have an impact on the company and how it operates. examining nature, competitiveness, international aspects, and economics.
Managing and using finance
Important accounting topics are covered in this session from a business standpoint. It illustrates how management decisions can be influenced and guided by accounting.
Maximising resources to achieve business success
Over time, an organization that does not pay enough attention to how its resources are used will find itself to be unprofitable. Any organization can manage its resources to produce big gains by being watchful and cautious.
Quantitative skills
After completing this module successfully, students will be familiar with numerical exercises and comprehend how they are used in a corporate setting.
Basic accounting
After completing this session, students will have a better understanding of accounts and how to use them to reveal information about the organization’s health.
Budgetary control
The purpose of this lesson is to describe budget-based financial control techniques. This covers creating and carrying out the departmental budgets that go into creating the master budget.
Financial performance
The purpose of this topic is to show how financial performance may be evaluated within organizations. This covers the application of accounting rules and financial statements. It also looks at how money can be raised across various time frames.
Financial ratios
The purpose of this session is to explain how to apply and interpret a frequently used financial ratio. Examining profitability, gearing, liquidity, and solvency are all part of this.
Financial statements
The purpose of this session is to walk through how the three financial statements were prepared and presented. This covers the applied accounting principles.
Further ratios
Course Content Level 5
The entrepreneurial manager
What is an entrepreneur? Examine the skills and qualities of entrepreneurship.
Organisation structures
Why do organizations have the structures that they do? What factors define the ideal structure, and how does it vary throughout organizations? Students will examine the various ideas and models that comprise organizational structure in this topic.
Practical accounting analysis
Throughout this module, learners will do tasks in accounts to gain an understanding of what the accounts are saying us and the actions that analysis can trigger.
Business planning and goal setting
What does the company want to accomplish? How is it going to behave? How is it going to accomplish that? The development of precise plans and goals in order to accomplish precise objectives is the main topic of this module.
Politics and business
The influence of politics on business and its potential benefits and drawbacks. Students will learn about government support, exports, and the economic consequences in this session.
Business law
Explore the statutory responsibilities of managers as learners look into the legalities of business and business executives.
Managing in today’s world
Business in the modern world. This module focuses on governance and equality as a means to do right in business.
Performance management
In order to guarantee excellent performance in the workplace, learners will examine reward systems, CPD, training, and development. They will also understand how your people and your organization can continuously progress together.
Marketing and sales planning
Learners will analyse how markets, customers, competitors and products can come together in a cohesive plan.
Quantitative skills
After completing this module successfully, students will be familiar with numerical exercises and comprehend how they are used in a corporate setting.
Assignments
Each level of the level 4/5 diploma in accounting and management consists of 6 written assignments and 10 modules. Each assignment is between two and three thousand words long. Students can access the ‘Tutor’ part of the learning portal to receive assistance with the courses and assignments.
The assignment unit titles for the level 4 course are:
- Accounting in a business context
- Economics for business mathematical
- Accounting methods
- Financial accounting
- Management accounting
- Leadership and management in accounting
The assignment unit titles for the level 5 course are:
- Business development
- Business models and growing organisations
- Customer management
- Responding to the changing business environment
- Risk management and organisations
- Effective decision making
Career Path
Students who successfully complete an accredited undergraduate degree program’s level 4 (accounting and finance) and level 5 (business management) courses as well as their final year will be equipped with the necessary credentials to apply for positions in marketing, accounting, human resources, management, or business consulting.
What is included in the cost of our course?
- All course material, including online modules and written assignments
- Personal tutor support with 1-2-1 Zoom sessions
- committed student assistance
- Having access to a social learning forum online
- Assignment evaluation and comments
- Get FREE access to our HUB
University Progression
If you decide to top up to a full undergraduate degree through an accredited UK university, the costs are listed below.
Coventry University
Business Management and Leadership BA (Hons)- online- £6,000
Business Management and Leadership BA (Hons)– London Campus – £10,000
Business Management and Leadership BA (Hons)– Coventry Campus- £10,000
Anglia Ruskin University
BSc (Hons) Management (Top-Up) – £4,850
Northampton University
BSc (Hons) in International Accounting -£9,250
University of Derby
BSc (Hons) Business and Management– £5,200
Westcliff University
Business Administration – £11,655 (online) / £15,600 (on campus)
University of Hertfordshire
BA (Hons) Business Administration – £6,400
University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN)
BA (Hons) Business Management – £9,240
University of Hertfordshire
BA (Hons) Business Administration (top-up) (Online)
Edinburgh Napier University
BA in Business Management – £4,600
BA in Business and Enterprise – £4,600
BA in Sales Management – £4,600
University of Sunderland – On Campus
BA (Hons) Business and Management – £9,250
University of Bolton
BSc Honours Business with Finance top-up
University of Cumbria
BA (Hons) Global Business Management – ON CAMPUS– £9,250 UK/ £13,250 International
BA (Hons) International Business Management – ON CAMPUS– £9,250 UK/ £13,250 International
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Undergraduate Top up to BA – €6,000
