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 Cambridge OCR has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Cambridge OCR awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Cambridge OCR.
The Cambridge OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in Business is a general qualification. It allows learners to develop knowledge and skills across a range of business management topics. Areas of study include the business environment, marketing, and business decision-making.
These are the units Cambridge OCR 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 Cambridge OCR. It does the teaching and the mapping. Cambridge OCR sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Accounting concepts Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental accounting principles and their application
- Identify and explain key accounting concepts
- Apply accounting concepts to record financial transactions
- Analyse financial statements using accounting concepts
- Evaluate the impact of accounting concepts on business decision-making
Business decisions Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of business decision-making
- Analyse different decision-making techniques
- Evaluate the impact of internal and external factors on business decisions
- Assess the risks associated with business decisions
- Apply decision-making models to solve business problems
Business operations Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how business decisions, such as pricing and marketing strategies, influence business operations.
- Analyse how factors which influence location, such as transport links and labour costs, impact on business operations.
- Analyse how supply chain management impacts on business operations, including sourcing, logistics, and distribution.
- Understand the different production methods available to businesses, such as job production, batch production, and mass production.
- Understand the different production approaches available to businesses, such as lean manufacturing and agile manufacturing.
- Understand the different stock control methods available to businesses, such as Just-in-Time (JIT) and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ).
- Understand why quality control is important to businesses and how it can be achieved through inspection and testing.
- Understand why quality assurance is important to businesses and how it can be achieved through implementing quality management systems.
- Understand how business operations comply with relevant legislation, such as health and safety regulations and environmental laws.
Change management Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of change management within an organisation
- Identify the key stages involved in implementing change
- Analyse the impact of change on individuals and teams
- Evaluate different approaches to managing resistance to change
- Apply change management techniques to a specific organisational context
Customers and communication Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of customer service in a business
- Identify different types of customers and their needs
- Apply effective communication techniques to interact with customers
- Explain how to handle customer complaints and resolve issues
- Recognise the role of feedback in improving customer service
Delivering a business project Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Define the scope and objectives of a business project
- Develop a project plan, including timelines and resource allocation
- Manage project risks and issues effectively
- Monitor project progress and performance against agreed targets
- Communicate project updates to stakeholders
- Evaluate the success of a business project against its objectives
Economics for business Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how microeconomic factors, such as supply and demand, can impact on UK businesses.
- Understand how macroeconomic factors, such as inflation and interest rates, can impact on UK businesses.
- Understand how UK government policies, such as taxation and regulation, can impact on UK businesses.
- Understand how the international economy, including exchange rates and global trade, can impact UK businesses.
- Analyse how businesses might respond to changes in the local economic environment.
- Analyse how businesses might respond to changes in the national economic environment.
- Analyse how businesses might respond to changes in the international economic environment.
Financial accounting Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of financial accounting
- Prepare financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement
- Analyse financial statements to assess the financial performance of a business
- Interpret financial ratios to identify trends and potential problems
- Apply accounting principles to make informed business decisions
Human resources Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the responsibilities of the human resources function within an organisation.
- Analyse the factors that affect the human resources function, such as legislation and economic conditions.
- Understand how businesses motivate employees using different strategies.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of different motivation strategies used by businesses.
- Understand the principles of effective employee relations and their importance.
- Analyse the factors that influence employee engagement within a business.
- Understand how business organisations monitor employee performance through various methods.
- Understand how business organisations manage employee performance to achieve organisational goals.
- Understand why businesses manage conflict in the workplace.
- Understand how businesses manage conflict in the workplace using appropriate resolution techniques.
- Make informed recruitment and selection decisions based on job requirements and candidate qualifications.
- Understand how businesses train their employees to improve their skills and knowledge.
- Understand why businesses develop their employees to enhance their career prospects and organisational performance.
International business Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key aspects of international business
- Explain the factors influencing international trade
- Apply knowledge of cultural differences in international business
- Analyse the risks and opportunities of international expansion
- Evaluate the impact of globalisation on businesses
Management accounting Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of management accounting
- Apply cost accounting techniques to determine the cost of products and services
- Use budgeting techniques to plan and control business operations
- Analyse cost-volume-profit relationships to make pricing decisions
- Use management accounting information to support decision-making
Marketing and market research Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of marketing
- Explain the importance of market research
- Identify different marketing strategies and techniques
- Analyse market data to identify trends and opportunities
- Develop a marketing plan for a specific product or service
Marketing campaign Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of a marketing campaign
- Plan the different elements of a marketing campaign
- Implement a marketing campaign
- Monitor the progress of a marketing campaign
- Evaluate the success of a marketing campaign
Marketing strategy Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of marketing strategy
- Analyse the target market for a product or service
- Develop a marketing mix to meet the needs of the target market
- Evaluate the effectiveness of different marketing strategies
- Create a marketing plan for a specific product or service
Principles of project management Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of project management
- Explain the project lifecycle and its phases
- Apply project management tools and techniques
- Analyse project risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Evaluate the success of a project against defined criteria
Resource management Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how businesses obtain physical resources, such as equipment, materials, and premises.
- Understand how businesses manage physical resources, including storage, maintenance, and disposal.
- Analyse the factors that influence how physical resources are managed by businesses, such as cost, availability, and sustainability.
- Evaluate how resource management can contribute to business performance, including efficiency, profitability, and competitiveness.
Responsible business practice Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of responsible business practices
- Identify ethical considerations in business operations
- Apply principles of sustainability in a business context
- Analyse the impact of business activities on stakeholders
- Evaluate the effectiveness of responsible business practices
The business environment Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of business organisations
- Explain the key functions of a business
- Analyse the external factors that affect businesses
- Evaluate the impact of economic conditions on business performance
- Understand the legal and regulatory environment in which businesses operate
- Assess the importance of ethical considerations in business decision-making
Working in business Real unit · Cambridge OCR
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of business organisations
- Identify the key functions within a business organisation
- Explain the importance of effective communication in a business environment
- Describe the role of technology in business operations
- Recognise the importance of ethical behaviour in business
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The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Implement marketing campaigns or activities
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Marketing Campaign Coordinator
This work gives you a grounding in how marketing campaigns are planned and run. It can lead to roles such as senior marketing campaign manager or marketing operations specialist.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Cambridge OCR 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
Accounting conceptsBusiness decisionsBusiness operationsChange managementCustomers and communicationDelivering a business projectEconomics for businessFinancial accounting
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 Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Marketing and market research” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Change management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Accounting concepts” 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
“Management accounting” 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 Accounting concepts, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will study fundamental accounting principles and concepts, applying them to record financial transactions and prepare financial statements. The unit also covers analysis of financial statements and the impact of accounting concepts on business decision-making.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Cambridge OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in Business
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Cambridge OCR.
- Accounting concepts
- Business decisions
- Business operations
- Change management
- Customers and communication
- Delivering a business project
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
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