How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

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01What it is

Recognised by the FCA - the Certificate in Corporate Finance features on the Financial Conduct Authority’s Appropriate Qualification tables (regulated activity 8) Suitable for a wide range of corporate finance staff; no previous qualifications are required Free CISI Student membership – become associated with a Chartered professional body and take advantage of an extensive range of benefits ACSI designatory letters Exams available online via remote invigilation or at one of our global test centres Qualification factsheet

These are the units Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. It does the teaching and the mapping. Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Corporate Finance Regulation Real unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
You'll develop an understanding of the UK corporate finance regulatory environment and its interaction with European regulations. The unit covers the roles of regulatory bodies, application of FSA Conduct of Business Rules, corporate governance, and business ethics within corporate finance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the Regulatory Environment in the UK and how it is affected by the European context of financial services regulation.
  • Apply specific FSA Conduct of Business Rules as they relate to corporate finance business.
  • Understand Corporate Governance and Business Ethics.
  • Understand Takeovers and Mergers.
  • Understand the requirements relating to the production and dissemination of prospectuses.
  • Understand equity capital markets.
Corporate Finance Technical Foundations Real unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
This unit provides learners with technical knowledge in corporate finance, including quantitative methods, financial statement analysis, capital structure, business valuations, acquisitions, and disposals. You'll apply financial and statistical techniques to analyse and forecast corporate finance outcomes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply a range of quantitative methods for corporate finance.
  • Understand and apply financial statements analysis and relevant accounting standards.
  • Understand the structure of capital.
  • Understand business valuations.
  • Understand acquisitions and disposals.
  • Understand the purpose and scope of corporate finance documentation.
03Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

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Where this can lead

Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

A CFO role can lead to running a business as chief executive. It can also lead to board positions as a non-executive director or chair. Some move into advising companies and investment firms as a senior advisor.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Corporate Finance RegulationCorporate Finance Technical Foundations

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Practical Builder The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration
The Practical Builder Paste in the draft you have for “Corporate Finance Regulation”. Not a tidied one, the one you would actually send.
You It is mostly there. The recommendations section is thin.
The Practical Builder Thin is fine, vague is not. Take recommendation two and tell me who does what by when, then we will see if it survives.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
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    You do “Corporate Finance Regulation” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Corporate Finance Regulation, one of this qualification's own units.

Corporate Finance Regulation Level 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Learners will develop an understanding of the UK corporate finance regulatory environment and its interaction with European regulations. The unit covers the roles of regulatory bodies, application of FSA Conduct of Business Rules, corporate governance, and business ethics within corporate finance.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for CISI Level 3 Certificate in Corporate Finance

2 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

  1. Corporate Finance Regulation
  2. Corporate Finance Technical Foundations
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.