Association of Chartered Certified Accountants · RQF Level 2
ACCA Level 2 Certificate in Financial and Management Accounting (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits33
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification14
Awarded by Association of Chartered Certified Accountants · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Association of Chartered Certified Accountants 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.
Banking proceduresReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the banking process
- Understand document retention and storage requirements.
Basic Principles of CostingReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of the cost recording system within an organisation
- Recognise the component parts of a cost recording system and how this operates
Computerised Accounting SoftwareReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Access, enter and edit accounting information
- Select and use tools and techniques to process business transactions
- Produce accounting documents and summary reports to meet requirements
Maintaining Control AccountsReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare sales and purchase ledger and tax control accounts
- Reconcile sales and purchase ledger and tax control accounts
Maintaining and reconciling the cashbookReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain a three column analysed cash book
- Reconcile a bank statement with the cashbook
Maintaining petty cash recordsReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Complete a petty cash voucher
- Maintain an analysed petty cash book
- Maintain the petty cash balance
Maintaining the JournalReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Open a new set of double entry book-keeping records using the Journal
- Use the Journal to correct errors disclosed and not disclosed by the trial balance
- Create and clear a suspense account using the Journal.
- Use the Journal to record other transactions
- Use the Journal to process wages costs.
Preparing and recording financial documentationReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the financial documents to be sent to credit customers
- Enter sales invoices and credit notes into the appropriate books of prime entry
- Process payments from customers
- Process suppliers’ invoices and credit notes
- Enter supplier invoices and credit notes into the appropriate books of prime entry
- Prepare payments to suppliers
Principles of recording and processing financial transactionsReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the books of prime entry
- Understand the principles of coding
- Understand the double entry book-keeping system
- Understand the various types of discount.
- Understand the use of the Journal
- Understand control accounts
Processing ledger transactions and extracting a trial balanceReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Process ledger transactions from the books of prime entry
- Prepare ledger balances and an initial trial balance
Professional Ethics in Accounting and FinanceReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of ethical working in accountancy or payroll
- Behave in an ethical manner when working with internal and external customers.
- Understand when and how to take appropriate action following any suspected breaches of ethical codes.
Provide Basic Cost and Revenue InformationReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Use the cost recording system to record or extract data
- Provide information on actual and expected costs
Spreadsheet SoftwareReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Use a spreadsheet to enter, edit and organise numerical and other data
- Select and use appropriate formulas and data analysis tools and techniques to meet requirements
- Use tools and techniques to present, and format and publish spreadsheet information
Work Effectively in Accounting and FinanceReal unit · Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the accounting or payroll function within an organisation
- Demonstrate a range of effective communication skills
- Work independently or as part of a team
- Develop skills and knowledge to meet personal and organisational needs
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 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.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Prepare and Pursue Statements of Account for Financial Products and Services Legacy
- Professional ethics in accountancy and finance
- Provide cost and revenue information
- Work effectively in accountancy and finance
Where this can lead
Financial Accountant
Your journey starts here, building a robust foundation. We're looking for someone who sees beyond the numbers to the story they tell and is excited to grow with us. The opportunities are vast, and we're keen to help you carve out a path that truly excites you.
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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 ACCA Level 2 Certificate in Financial and Management Accounting (QCF)
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
- Banking procedures
- Basic Principles of Costing
- Computerised Accounting Software
- Maintaining Control Accounts
- Maintaining and reconciling the cashbook
- Maintaining petty cash records
and 8 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.
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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
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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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