Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd · RQF Level 6
BAA Level 6 Diploma in Accounting and Financial Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits135
- Guided learning540 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd 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.
Advanced Financial ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand purpose and role of financial management
- Understand and use effective working capital management techniques
- Perform investment appraisals 4 Understand the process of identification, comparison and evaluation of alternative sources of business finance 5 Be able to conduct business valuations 6 Understand risk management techniques in business
Advanced Performance ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand specialist cost and management accounting techniques
- Understand decision-making techniques
- Understand budgetary systems
- Prepare forecasts and budgets for a business
- Understand performance measurement, monitoring and control
Auditing and Internal ControlsReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand audit and related regulatory framework
- Perform audit planning and risk assessment
- Understand audit procedures
- Understand internal control systems
- Understand reporting for audit purposes
Corporate and Business LawReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the Legal System
- Understand fundamental concepts of contract and tort law
- Understand the legal rules and regulations relevant to business organisations
- Understand internal company regulation and insolvency law
- Understand Securities Law
Financial ReportingReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the the regulatory framework for financial reporting
- Prepare and present single entity and consolidated financial statements in conformity with IFRSs from complete or incomplete records
- Analyse and interpret financial statements
- Understand specialised accounting for transactions in financial statements
- Understand the role of directors, company secretaries and the auditors in financial reporting and the management of companies
Foundations of Accounting and FinanceReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and context of financial accounting
- Record accounting transactions and prepare a trial balance
- Prepare financial statements
- Interpret the financial performance of organisations
Managerial Accounting and FinancingReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Extract and analyse financial data and management information
- Understand the use of cost accounting techniques
- Understand the use of financial information systems planning and controlling purposes
- Understand use of investment appraisal techniques for capital budgeting
- Explore the use of performance measurement systems in organisations
Principles of Accounting and Finance: ProfessionalReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underlying concepts that determine how businesses are organised, functioning and governed
- Demonstrate knowledge of managerial aspects in an organisation
- Understand importance of financing and regulatory issues
- Understand the different sources of financing available for individuals and businesses
Taxation and Tax PlanningReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the tax system and related procedures
- Understand income tax
- Understand the taxation of individuals, businesses and corporate entities
- Prepare computations for: income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax
- Understand the requirements of Value added tax (VAT)
- Understand how to minimise the impact of tax for individuals and businesses
- Discuss inheritance tax
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 6 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
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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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.
- Analyse information from the audit of the Training and Competence Scheme
- Carry out audit investigations of the Training and Competence Scheme
- Develop awareness of the tax environment within which specific investments and investors operate
- Draw conclusions from a Training and Competence audit
- Implement external audit procedures
Where this can lead
Internal Auditor
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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 BAA Level 6 Diploma in Accounting and Financial Management
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd.
- Advanced Financial Management
- Advanced Performance Management
- Auditing and Internal Controls
- Corporate and Business Law
- Financial Reporting
- Foundations of Accounting and Finance
and 3 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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.