AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 2
AIM Qualifications Level 2 Award in Business and Law
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- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits9
- Guided learning84 hours
- Units in this qualification36
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Level 2 Award in Business and Law introduces learners to key concepts in these areas. It includes units on business finance, legal aspects, and planning. It is suitable for those seeking an introductory vocationally-related qualification in business management.
These are the units AIM Qualifications 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.
Actus Reus and Mens ReaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit covers the fundamental principles of criminal liability, focusing on actus reus and mens rea. You'll understand the definitions, types, and roles of actus reus and mens rea, including intention, recklessness, and negligence, as well as the requirement for their contemporaneity.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of actus reus and its role in establishing criminal liability
- Understand the various forms of mens rea, including intention, recklessness, and negligence
- Understand the requirement of contemporaneity, ensuring that the actus reus and mens rea occur at the same time
Business AccountingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit introduces learners to business accounting principles, including business costing and cost allocation methods. You'll learn to prepare and interpret business accounts such as profit and loss statements and balance sheets.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of business costing and cost allocation
- Understand the preparation and interpretation of business accounts, including profit and loss statements and balance sheets
Business FinanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll understand key aspects of business finance, including working capital management, sources of finance, and financial investment decision-making methods. The unit covers analysing the impact of finance management and comparing financing options.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of working capital and its importance to a business
- Understand the different sources of finance available to a business, including their advantages and disadvantages
- Understand various decision-making methods for financial investment, such as payback period and return on investment
Business PlanningReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll learn to carry out initial business planning and produce comprehensive business plans. The unit covers identifying business objectives, analysing target markets, conducting market research, and developing financial projections and operational strategies.
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out initial business planning, including identifying business objectives and target markets
- Produce a business plan, including financial projections, marketing strategies, and operational plans
Business TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit covers business techniques that support effective work planning, including the use of Gantt charts and critical path analysis. You'll understand how these planning methods and control systems improve efficiency and productivity within organisations.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand techniques that aid the planning of work, such as Gantt charts and critical path analysis
- Understand the application of planning techniques to improve efficiency and productivity
- Understand the use of control systems in business to monitor performance against targets
- Understand the importance of control systems in identifying and addressing deviations from planned outcomes
Business and the EconomyReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll understand the main causes of economic growth, inflation, and unemployment, and how these economic changes affect businesses. The unit includes analysis of technological advancements and their influence on productivity and economic development.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main causes of economic growth, including factors such as technological advancements and increased productivity.
- Understand the main causes of inflation, including demand-pull and cost-push inflation.
- Understand the main causes of unemployment, including cyclical, structural, and frictional unemployment.
- Understand the effects that changes in the economy, such as recessions or booms, may have on businesses, including their profitability and investment decisions.
Company LawReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of company law, including the nature and formation of partnerships and companies. The unit covers incorporation processes, company constitutions, methods of raising capital, corporate governance, meetings, and procedures for winding up.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of partnerships, including the different types of partnerships and the legal implications of forming a partnership.
- Understand the nature of companies, including the different types of companies and the legal implications of forming a company.
- Understand the process of incorporation, including the steps involved in registering a company.
- Understand the company constitution, including the articles of association and memorandum of association.
- Understand methods of raising capital, including issuing shares, taking out loans, and using retained earnings.
- Understand corporate governance, including the roles and responsibilities of directors and shareholders.
- Understand the process of company meetings, including annual general meetings and extraordinary general meetings.
- Understand corporate collapse and the process of winding up, including the different types of insolvency and the procedures for liquidating a company.
Consumer LawReal unit · AIM Qualifications
It teaches you to understand key consumer protection legislation in the UK and the rights it grants consumers. It also covers the roles and functions of regulatory bodies responsible for enforcing consumer law and safeguarding consumer interests.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand consumer protection legislation in the UK
- Understand the function of regulatory bodies responsible for enforcing consumer law
Contract LawReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll develop knowledge of contract law fundamentals, including the essential features of a valid contract such as offer, acceptance, consideration, and intention to create legal relations. The unit also covers remedies available for breach of contract.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the essential features of a valid contract, including offer, acceptance, consideration, and intention to create legal relations.
- Understand remedies available in contract law, including damages, specific performance, and rescission.
Criminal and Youth Justice – The Legal FrameworkReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit provides an overview of the UK court system, including the Magistrates', Crown, High, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Courts. You'll also understand the sentencing framework and key legislation relevant to criminal and youth justice.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of the court system within the UK
- Understand the sentencing framework applied within the criminal justice system
- Understand key aspects of legislation relevant to criminal and youth justice
Crisis in Business ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll gain knowledge of crisis management principles within business contexts. The unit covers defining crises, identifying causes, developing crisis management plans, and the importance of effective communication during crises.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of crisis management within a business organisation
- Understand the requirements for effective crisis management in business management
Employment LawReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with an understanding of key employment legislation, including discrimination laws, fair dismissal, and working conditions. You'll also study the terms and conditions of employment contracts and employer-employee legal obligations.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand employment legislation, including laws relating to discrimination, unfair dismissal, and working conditions.
- Understand the employment contract, including its terms and conditions, and the rights and responsibilities of both employer and employee.
English LawReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit introduces the sources of modern English law, including legislation, common law, and European Union law. You'll also examine individual rights and freedoms and the mechanisms for their protection within the legal system.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sources of modern English law, including legislation, common law, and European Union law.
- Understand individual rights and freedoms, such as freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial, and how they are protected by law.
Ethics in BusinessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll explore ethical issues in business operations, including the consequences of unethical practices and the importance of ethical codes of conduct. The unit also examines how ethical considerations influence business decision-making.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand ethical issues relating to business operations
- Understand the impact of ethical considerations on business decision-making
- Understand the importance of ethical behaviour in maintaining a positive business reputation
European Union LawReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll study the main institutions of the European Union, their roles, and the legislative process. The unit also examines the effects of EU law on the UK legal system and businesses, including the relationship between EU and UK law.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the institutions of the European Union (EU) and their roles
- Understand the effects of EU law on the UK legal and business environment
External Influences in BusinessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit explores external factors affecting business activities, including government and EU policies, environmental challenges, and technological change. You'll understand how these influences impact business operations, strategies, and sustainability.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of Government and EU policies on business activities
- Understand environmental issues facing businesses and their impact
- Understand the effects of technological change on business operations and strategy
Financial AccountingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit equips learners with skills to interpret financial accounts from a managerial perspective, apply double-entry bookkeeping, and produce trial balances. You'll also understand the preparation and use of end-of-year accounts for sole traders.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to interpret financial accounts from a managerial standpoint, considering key financial ratios and performance indicators
- Carry out double entry book keeping, accurately recording financial transactions
- Produce a trial balance, identifying and correcting any discrepancies
- Understand the production of end of year accounts for a sole trader, including the profit and loss account and balance sheet
- Understand the use of end of year accounts for a sole trader in making informed business decisions
General DefencesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll explore general defences in criminal law, including insanity, automatism, duress, mistake, intoxication, consent, and infancy. The unit covers legal requirements for each defence and distinguishes between general and specific defences.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of the terms “general defences” and “complete defences” in criminal law
- Understand the legal requirements for the defence of insanity
- Understand the legal requirements for the defence of automatism
- Understand the legal requirements for the defences of duress
- Understand the legal requirements for the defence of mistake
- Understand the legal requirements for the defence of intoxication
- Understand the legal requirements for the defences of consent and infancy
HomicideReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll gain an understanding of homicide law, distinguishing between murder and various classes of manslaughter. The unit covers available defences such as self-defence and diminished responsibility, as well as sentencing aims and types.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between murder and the various classes of manslaughter, including voluntary and involuntary manslaughter
- Understand the defences available for charges of murder and manslaughter, such as self-defence and diminished responsibility
- Understand the aims and types of sentence a judge might pursue in cases of homicide, including custodial sentences and community orders
Human ResourcesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll examine human resource requirements within organisations, including employee selection processes and legal employment obligations. The unit also emphasises the importance of continuing professional development and training in achieving organisational objectives.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key human resource requirements of an organisation
- Understand the processes involved in selecting employees, including recruitment and interviewing techniques
- Understand the importance of continuing professional development and training for employees and the organisation
Human RightsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll gain an understanding of fundamental human rights principles under English law, including the incorporation and application of the European Convention on Human Rights. The unit examines the use of Convention rights and the legal remedies available for their enforcement.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles protecting the rights of the individual in English law
- Understand the nature of the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights into English Law
- Understand the use of Convention rights within the English legal system
Investigating a CareerReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll investigate a chosen career option by analysing personal skills, interests, and values in relation to career requirements. The unit also covers necessary qualifications, training, and the impact of topical issues and standards within the relevant work sector.
What you'll be able to do
- Research a career option in relation to personal skills, interests and values
- Assess a career option in relation to required qualifications, training and experience
- Analyse the impact of topical issues on specific work sectors
- Describe issues relating to standards or regulations in a chosen career sector
Law and SMEsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll explore the legal framework affecting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The unit covers the impact of law on SME operations, legal status of business structures, compliance with employment and health and safety legislation, and data protection.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the effect of the law on SME operations and activities, including compliance requirements.
- Understand the legal status of an SME, including different business structures and their legal implications.
- Understand the legal relationships arising from SME operations and activities, including contracts and liabilities.
Legal Aspects of BusinessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the legal obligations businesses face, including Health and Safety regulations, consumer rights, insurance requirements, and the legal status of organisations. You'll understand compliance and consequences of non-compliance.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the obligations of a business with regards to Health and Safety regulations, including relevant legislation and responsibilities
- Understand consumer rights as defined by relevant legislation and how businesses must comply
- Understand the insurance requirements of a business, including different types of insurance and their purpose
- Understand the different legal statuses of organisations, such as sole trader, partnership, and limited company
Management AccountingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit provides an understanding of management accounting principles and practices within organisations. You'll explore costing methods, budgeting, variance analysis, breakeven analysis, and stock valuation techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of management accounting and its application within organisations
- Understand the differences between marginal and absorption costing methods
- Understand how to prepare and analyse budgets and variance reports
- Understand the principles of breakeven analysis and its use in decision-making
- Understand different methods of stock valuation and their impact on financial statements
Managing PeopleReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit covers the distinctions between leadership and management, various leadership styles, and motivation theories. You'll understand the roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers and how these concepts influence employee performance.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between leadership and management, including their respective roles and responsibilities within an organisation.
- Understand different leadership styles, such as autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire, and their impact on team performance.
- Understand motivation theories, such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Herzberg's two-factor theory, and how they can be applied to improve employee engagement and productivity.
Marketing Research and StrategiesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll develop knowledge of marketing strategy development, including analysing target markets and the marketing mix (4Ps). The unit also covers market research methodologies and techniques for collecting and analysing market data.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop a comprehensive marketing strategy for a given product or service
- Conduct market research using appropriate methodologies and techniques
Marketing ToolsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit provides knowledge of market planning and promotional processes, product management, and new product development. You'll also understand marketing channels, structures, and the role of pricing as a competitive tool in marketing strategies.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes used in market planning and promotion within an organisation
- Understand product management techniques and new product development processes
- Understand different marketing channels and structures available to businesses
- Understand the importance of price as a competitive tool in marketing strategies
Non Fatal Offences Against the PersonReal unit · AIM Qualifications
It teaches you to understand non-fatal offences against the person, including various forms of assault, wounding, and sexual offences. You'll study legal definitions, distinctions between offences, and related legal principles.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various forms of assault and wounding, including common assault, actual bodily harm (ABH), and grievous bodily harm (GBH).
- Understand sexual offences, including the definitions and legal consequences of different types of sexual assault.
Organisational StructuresReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll explore different organisational structures and their impact on efficiency and productivity. The unit also covers communication systems, organisational culture, and the roles of employee organisations within businesses.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of organisational structures commonly found in businesses
- Understand the importance of effective communication systems within an organisation
- Understand the impact of different organisational cultures on employee behaviour and performance
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of employee organisations within businesses
Property OffencesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit covers various property offences including theft, robbery, burglary, fraud, and criminal damage. You'll understand legal definitions, elements required to prove offences, and the distinctions between different property crimes.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal definition of theft, including the elements required to prove the offence.
- Understand different property offences, including robbery, burglary, and handling stolen goods.
- Understand Fraud, including different types of fraudulent activity and the legal consequences.
- Understand criminal damage, including the different levels of severity and associated penalties.
Quality and Customer CareReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll explore the concept of quality in business, including its importance for customer satisfaction and the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM). The unit also covers effective customer care approaches and the benefits of delivering high-quality products or services.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of quality in businesses and its importance for customer satisfaction
- Understand different approaches to quality management, such as Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Understand the principles of effective customer care and its impact on customer loyalty
- Understand how to provide excellent customer service in various business contexts
The English Legal SystemReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the English legal system's court hierarchy and appeals process. It also covers the roles of legal personnel, contributions of various groups in the legal process, and alternative dispute resolution methods.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of the English legal system, including the hierarchy of courts
- Understand the appeals process within the English legal system
- Understand the roles of various legal personnel in the administration of justice
- Understand the contribution of different groups and organisations in the legal process
- Understand various methods of resolving legal disputes, including mediation and arbitration
The Law of TortReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll study the Law of Tort with a focus on negligence and nuisance. The unit covers the elements required to establish negligence and the two forms of nuisance, including the legal remedies available for each.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to establish negligence, including the elements of duty of care, breach of duty, causation, and damages.
- Understand the two forms of nuisance, including private nuisance and public nuisance, and the remedies available for each.
The Powers of the PoliceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit covers the legal powers of the police in the UK, including arrest, stop and search, entry, and detention of suspects. You'll also understand procedures for reporting police misconduct and the role of oversight bodies such as the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various powers afforded to the police under UK law
- Understand the procedures for dealing with allegations of police misconduct
Youth Justice - PracticeReal unit · AIM Qualifications
This unit introduces learners to the youth justice system, including its historical context, aims, and key agencies. You'll also explore relevant legislation and its impact on practice within the youth justice system.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the background to the youth justice system, including its aims and objectives
- Understand the impact of legislation on practice within the youth justice system
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 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.
Actus Reus and Mens ReaBusiness AccountingBusiness FinanceBusiness PlanningBusiness TechniquesBusiness and the EconomyCompany LawConsumer Law
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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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.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
This unit covers the fundamental principles of criminal liability, focusing on actus reus and mens rea. Learners will understand the definitions, types, and roles of actus reus and mens rea, including intention, recklessness, and negligence, as well as the requirement for their contemporaneity.
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for AIM Qualifications Level 2 Award in Business and Law
36 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by AIM Qualifications.
- Actus Reus and Mens Rea
- Business Accounting
- Business Finance
- Business Planning
- Business Techniques
- Business and the Economy
and 30 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
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
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.