ABE · RQF Level 5
ABE Level 5 Diploma in Business Management (Higher) (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits151
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by ABE · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units ABE 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Entrepreneurship and Business DevelopmentReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of Entrepreneurship and its close relationship with enterprise and owner-management.
- Understand the nature of business development in the context of existing organisations and of new business start-ups.
- Understand the concepts of innovation and creativity and the roles that both play in Entrepreneurship and Business Development.
- Understand the importance of research and information in a successful business.
- Understand regulatory frameworks affecting the entrepreneur and small business owner.
- Understand issues and decisions involved in financing and resourcing a busi
Financial AccountingReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the framework of financial accounting.
- Prepare and present the financial statements of companies in accordance with international generally accepted accounting practice (IGAAP) under International Financial Reporting Standards.
- Prepare Statements of Comprehensive Income, Statements of Financial Position, Statement of Changes in Equity and Statements of Cash Flows.
- Analyse and interpret financial statements for a range of users.
- Prepare and present consolidated financial statements in accordance with IGAAP.
- Understand the capital s
Human Resource ManagementReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of a professional approach to HRM as an essential means for optimising the performance and commitment of an organisation’s employees.
- Understand the role of effective and efficient people resourcing (HR planning, recruitment and selection) in securing a workforce with the requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes.
- Enable a workforce to contribute to organisational goals.
- Understand the theory and practise related to the full range of HRM functions (learning, performance management, reward/recognition and employee relations).
- Understand the content and significance of key developments in the HRM arena, especially High Performance Working (HPW).
- Understand the content and significance of key developments in the HRM arena, especially employee ‘engagement’.
- Understand the content and significance of key developments in the HRM arena, especially employer branding.
- Understand the content and significance of key developments in the HRM arena, especially self-managed learning.
Information Systems Applications for BusinessReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the functions and operating modes of different business information systems.
- Understand the features and business benefits of Local Area Networks (LANs).
- Understand the features of Wide Area Networks (WANs) and the various communication technologies needed for their support.
- Understand the impact of the Internet and other technologies on business models and commercial activities.
- Understand the stages in the procurement of a computer system from suppliers.
- Understand the options available in acquiring the requisite hardware, software and services for an information system.
- Und
Information Systems DevelopmentReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of an organised approach to the development of information systems.
- Understand the Life Cycle approach to systems development.
- Understand the conventional (traditional) methodology which is based on the Life Cycle approach.
- Understand alternative approaches to information systems development.
- Understand the analysis and specification activities conducted during system development.
- Select appropriate implementation strategies for an information system.
- Understand the importance of human factors in system development and use.
- Understand how contempora
Managerial AccountingReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the essential requirements of a management accounting system and the control systems required for materials, labour and overheads.
- Classify and analyse cost data and understand how cost systems differ by activity, i.e. job, process and contract costing.
- Understand costs for short-term decision making and know the difference between marginal and absorption costing.
- Understand the purpose of budgetary control including the purpose and importance of working capital management.
- Understand the purpose of standard costing and variance analysis.
- Appraise capita
Marketing Policy, Planning and CommunicationReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the creative nature of marketing and be able to evaluate the role and value of marketing in a variety of business contexts.
- Understand the marketing mix concept (7Ps) and its role in the formulation of an integrated marketing plan in both domestic and international markets.
- Formulate marketing plans at domestic and international levels.
- Evaluate marketing plans at domestic and international levels.
- Understand the role of information and research in marketing decision making.
- Understand the influence technology has had on information and research activities in recent years.
- Understand the macro environmental factors affecting marketing decisions.
- Understand the micro environmental factors affecting marketing decisions.
- Conduct environmental scanning.
- Conduct external audits.
- Understand consumer buyer behaviour and the main influences at individual and household level.
- Understand organisational buyer behaviour and the main influences at organisational level.
- Understand segmentation targeting and positioning tools and techniques.
- Develop and implement STP (Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning) strategies in an appropriate and creative manner.
Systems Management and Internal Financial ControlsReal unit · ABE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and scope of information systems within organisations.
- Understand the ways in which information systems are designed and managed.
- Understand how information systems are developed and controlled.
- Understand the organisational context and importance of internal auditing.
- Understand the key stages and techniques used in an internal audit assignment.
- Understand the actual and potential impacts of information technology (IT) on internal auditing.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. 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’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We'll give you the tools and opportunities to learn and grow, whether you want to lead a team or become the ultimate technical expert. We're excited to see what you'll achieve.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABE Level 5 Diploma in Business Management (Higher) (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ABE.
- Entrepreneurship and Business Development
- Financial Accounting
- Human Resource Management
- Information Systems Applications for Business
- Information Systems Development
- Managerial Accounting
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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