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 AIM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and AIM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from AIM Qualifications.
This Level 2 certificate offers learners an introduction to business and law. It allows candidates to explore areas such as business finance, legal aspects, and planning. Youth justice and homicide are also covered, providing a broader understanding of the legal system.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with AIM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. AIM Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Actus Reus and Mens Rea Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Accounting Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Finance Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Planning Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Techniques Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Economy Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Law Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Law Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Law Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Framework Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Management Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Law Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Law Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Business Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Law Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Business Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Accounting Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Defences Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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
Homicide Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Resources Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Rights Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Career Real unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Research a career option, considering personal skills, interests and qualifications.
- Assess a chosen career option in relation to personal skills, interests and qualifications.
- Describe the impact of topical issues on specific work sectors.
- Explain issues relating to standards or regulations in a chosen career sector.
Law and SMEs Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Business Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Accounting Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 People Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Strategies Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Tools Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Person Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Structures Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Offences Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Care Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 System Real unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the key features and sources of English law, including statute law, common law, and European law.
- Explain the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals under English law, including human rights and civil liberties.
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of different law enforcement agencies in England, including the police, courts, and prisons.
The Law of Tort Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 Police Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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 - Practice Real unit · AIM Qualifications
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
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Where this can lead
Consumer Protection Lawyer
This work can lead towards a partner role in a consumer practice group, or towards leading a consumer litigation practice. It can also lead in-house, as general counsel for a consumer-facing company.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by AIM Qualifications 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
Actus Reus and Mens ReaBusiness AccountingBusiness FinanceBusiness PlanningBusiness TechniquesBusiness and the EconomyCompany LawConsumer Law
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 Research and Strategies” 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 “Business Planning” 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 “Business 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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Quality and Customer Care” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
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 Actus Reus and Mens Rea, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will examine the fundamental principles of criminal liability focusing on actus reus and mens rea. The unit covers different forms of mens rea, including intention, recklessness, and negligence, and the requirement for contemporaneity between actus reus and mens rea.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for AIM Qualifications Level 2 Extended Certificate 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.
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