How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Accounting Technicians Ireland has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Accounting Technicians Ireland awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Accounting Technicians Ireland.
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These are the units Accounting Technicians Ireland 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Accounting Technicians Ireland. It does the teaching and the mapping. Accounting Technicians Ireland sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Business Management Real unit · Accounting Technicians Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of management and its role and contribution to business life, including different management styles and their effectiveness.
- Understand the nature of the environment in which businesses operate, including the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) factors.
- Assess the significance of global factors and market dynamics that shape business activities, including competition and consumer behaviour.
- Understand the role of planning, control and organisation within businesses, including the importance of strategic planning and effective control mechanisms.
- Understand the nature of leadership and related motivational theories and their application in transforming business situations, including different leadership styles and their impact on employee performance.
- Understand the role and operation of the Human Resources function and of the challenges that arise within this function, including recruitment, training, and employee relations.
- Understand basic Marketing concepts and the key elements of the services marketing mix, including product, price, place, promotion, people, process and physical evidence.
- Understand the importance of Information Technology / Information Systems security measures, including data protection and cyber security.
- Know the benefits and challenges associated with using 'Cloud' technologies in a business environment, including cost savings, scalability and security risks.
- Understand the importance of business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance in the modern business environment, including the impact on stakeholders and the organisation's reputation.
Financial Accounting Real unit · Accounting Technicians Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of accounting information within a business context.
- Explain the role of an accountancy professional within a business.
- Understand fundamental accounting principles.
- Understand fundamental accounting conventions.
- Understand fundamental accounting concepts.
- Apply the principles of double entry book-keeping.
- Apply the principles of accounting systems.
- Prepare financial statements for a sole trader.
- Prepare financial statements using incomplete information.
- Prepare financial statements for a not-for-profit organisation.
Law and Ethics Real unit · Accounting Technicians Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and sources of the Northern Ireland legal system.
- Understand the various methods that lead to a company ceasing business.
- Understand the main corporate law offences.
- Understand the role of corporate governance.
- Understand the legal obligations imposed upon persons dealing with financial information.
- Understand Data Protection Legislation and the requirements for storing and processing personal data.
- Understand the role of the Information Commissioner.
- Understand the law on the formation and discharge of a contract.
- Understand the key principles of employment law.
- Understand the legislation governing dismissal.
- Understand the legislation governing redundancy.
- Understand the key principles of the law of agency.
- Understand the legislation governing the creation of an agency relationship.
- Understand the legislation governing the termination of an agency relationship.
- Know the key provisions of the relevant consumer protection law.
- Understand the impact of consumer protection law on consumer protection.
- Understand the key principles of the tort of negligence.
- Understand the principles of the law of partnership.
- Understand the nature and formation of a company.
- Understand the principles in relation to share and loan capital.
- Understand the rights and responsibilities of how a company is managed.
Taxation Real unit · Accounting Technicians Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with HMRC codes of practice with respect to the assessment and collection of income tax.
- Comply with HMRC codes of practice with respect to the assessment and collection of VAT.
- Explain how the UK system for the administration for income tax operates for individuals and businesses.
- Explain how the UK system for the administration for VAT operates for individuals and businesses.
- Calculate taxable income arising from employment.
- Apply income tax regulations as they apply to employed individuals.
- Apply income tax regulations as they apply to self-employed individuals.
- Prepare non-complex income tax computations.
- Calculate taxable income arising from self-employment.
- Apply the principles of the taxation of property income.
- Calculate the scope and application of PAYE.
- Accurately calculate National Insurance Contributions.
- Apply VAT regulations.
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Tax Accountant
This work can lead to managing a tax function, then to senior tax roles with wider responsibility, and eventually to directing tax strategy at a senior level.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Accounting Technicians Ireland 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
Business ManagementFinancial AccountingLaw and EthicsTaxation
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.
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You do “Financial Accounting” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Business Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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 Business Management, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will study business management principles, including management roles, styles, and their impact on business objectives. The unit also covers external factors such as PESTLE analysis and the role of planning, control, and decision-making.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Accounting Technicians Ireland Level 4 Certificate for Accounting Technicians
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Accounting Technicians Ireland.
- Business Management
- Financial Accounting
- Law and Ethics
- Taxation
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