AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 2
AIM Qualifications Level 2 Extended Certificate in Business and Law
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits27
- Guided learning264 hours
- Units in this qualification36
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Actus Reus and Mens ReaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll 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.
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 equips learners with knowledge of business costing principles and cost allocation methods. You'll learn to prepare and interpret business accounts, including profit and loss statements and balance sheets, and analyse financial information.
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 develop an understanding of business finance, focusing on working capital management, sources of finance, and methods for financial investment decision making. The unit includes analysis of the impact of poor working capital management and comparison of 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 be able to carry out initial business planning and produce a comprehensive business plan. This includes identifying business objectives, analysing target markets, conducting market research, and developing financial projections and operational plans.
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 introduces learners to business techniques that support work planning, such as Gantt charts and critical path analysis, and the use of control systems. It covers how these techniques improve efficiency and productivity in business operations.
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
This unit covers the causes and effects of economic growth, inflation, and unemployment. You'll understand how economic changes impact businesses, including effects on profitability and investment decisions.
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
This unit offers a comprehensive understanding of company law, including partnerships and companies, incorporation processes, company constitutions, capital raising, corporate governance, meetings, and procedures for corporate collapse and 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
You'll explore UK consumer protection legislation and the rights it affords consumers. The unit also covers the role and functions of regulatory bodies responsible for enforcing consumer law and protecting 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 study the essential features of a valid contract, including offer, acceptance, consideration, and intention to create legal relations. The unit also covers the remedies available in contract law 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
You'll gain an understanding of the UK court system structure, including Magistrates', Crown, High, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Courts. The unit also covers sentencing frameworks 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 explore crisis management within business contexts, including the definition and causes of crises, key principles of crisis management, and the importance and components of an effective crisis management plan.
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. It also covers the terms and conditions of employment contracts and employer and employee rights.
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
You'll explore the sources of modern English law, including legislation, common law, and European Union law. The unit also covers individual rights and freedoms and how these are protected within the legal framework.
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
This unit covers ethical issues in business operations, including identification of ethical dilemmas, consequences of unethical practices, and the role of ethical codes of conduct. You'll also examine how ethics 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
This unit provides knowledge of the main institutions of the European Union (EU), their roles, and the legislative process. You'll also understand the effects of EU law on the UK legal system and business operations.
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 examines external factors influencing business activities, such as government and EU policies, environmental challenges, and technological change. You'll understand how these influences affect business operations and strategic decision-making.
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
You'll learn to interpret financial accounts from a managerial perspective, apply double-entry bookkeeping, produce trial balances, and 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 study general defences in criminal law, including insanity, automatism, duress, mistake, intoxication, consent, and infancy. The unit covers legal requirements for each defence and distinctions 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 explore the legal distinctions between murder and various classes of manslaughter, including voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. The unit also covers defences such as self-defence and diminished responsibility, and 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
This unit covers human resource requirements within organisations, employee selection processes, and the importance of continuing professional development and training. You'll understand HR's role in achieving organisational objectives and legal employment requirements.
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
This unit covers the fundamental principles protecting individual rights within English law, including the incorporation and application of the European Convention on Human Rights. You'll understand key human rights, their limitations, and how Convention rights are utilised in legal contexts.
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 research and assess a chosen career option in relation to their skills and interests. The unit includes understanding the impact of topical issues on work sectors and the standards or regulations relevant to the chosen career.
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 SMEsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll gain knowledge of the legal framework affecting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including compliance with employment law, health and safety legislation, data protection, and the legal status and relationships arising from SME operations.
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 covers the legal obligations of businesses regarding Health and Safety regulations, consumer rights, insurance requirements, and the legal status of organisations. You'll understand employer and employee responsibilities and the 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 applications, including marginal and absorption costing, budgeting, variance analysis, breakeven analysis, and stock valuation methods.
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
You'll understand the distinctions between leadership and management, various leadership styles, and motivation theories. The unit supports applying these concepts to enhance people management within organisations.
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
It teaches you to develop marketing strategies by analysing target markets and the marketing mix (4Ps). It 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 learners with knowledge of market planning and promotion processes, product management and new product development, marketing channels and structures, and the role of price as a competitive marketing tool.
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. It covers legal definitions, required elements for offences, and distinctions between different types of assault.
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
This unit provides knowledge of different organisational structures and their impact on efficiency and productivity. You'll also explore communication systems, organisational cultures, 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 the legal definitions and elements of theft and other property offences, including robbery, burglary, handling stolen goods, fraud, and criminal damage. You'll understand the distinctions between offences and their legal consequences.
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 understand the concept of quality in business and its importance for customer satisfaction. The unit covers different quality management approaches, including Total Quality Management, and principles of effective customer care.
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
You'll gain an understanding of the English legal system, including statute law, common law, European law, and sources of law. The unit also covers fundamental individual rights and freedoms and the roles of law enforcement agencies.
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 TortReal unit · AIM Qualifications
You'll study the Law of Tort focusing on negligence and nuisance. The unit covers the elements required to establish negligence and the two forms of nuisance, including the 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
You'll study the powers granted to the police under UK law, including arrest, stop and search, entry, and detention. The unit also covers procedures for reporting and addressing police misconduct, including the role of oversight bodies.
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 provides learners with an understanding of the youth justice system, including its historical context, aims, objectives, and key agencies. It also covers 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 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?
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.
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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.
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
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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.