ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 5
ATHE Level 5 Extended Diploma in Business and Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning480 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by ATHE 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 ATHE 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.
Applied Economics for BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of macroeconomics
- Understand economic policies
- Understand the implications of trade balance and trade deficit
Business EthicsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different ethical perspectives in business
- Understand business objectives from an ethical perspective
- Understand ethics in workplace relationships
- Assess a current ethical issue in an organisation
Business LawReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main principles governing the legal relationship between businesses and their consumers
- Understand rules governing consumer credit and the law of agency
- Understand rules relating to monopolies, mergers and anti-competitive practices
- Understand key provisions relating to intellectual property rights
Business Organisations in a Global ContextReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand differences in global business operations
- Understand the impact of external factors on global business organisations
- Understand the impact of globalisation on the internal operations of business organisations
- Review current issues that impact on business activities of a specified country
Finance for ManagersReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sources of finance available to organisations
- Assess an organisation’s financial performance
- Use costing methods to make informed organisational decisions
Financial Systems and AuditingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of keeping accounting records within an organisation
- Review an organisations’ management control systems
- Understand the reporting processes required when conducting an audit
Information for Strategic Decision MakingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sources of information needed and how information may be used to support strategic decision making
- Understand how to gather information for strategic decision making
- Use information in strategic decision making
Life Sciences in BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management considerations needed for life sciences-based organisations
- Understand evolution by natural selection and contemporary applications
- Understand the implications for the management of preventable diseases
- Understand the impact of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs)
Logic and Critical Thinking/Design and Creative ThinkingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand analytical reasoning and informal logic
- Understand how to use scientific, ethical and strategic reasoning in creative thinking and decision making in organisations
- Understand creative techniques and how they support decision making in organisations
- Understand the design process used in organisations
Manage Sustainability in an OrganisationReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand issues relating to sustainability in organisations
- Understand how legislation, regulation, and guidance impact on the sustainability of organisations
- Audit the sustainability of an organisation
- Understand the quality standards relevant to organisational sustainability
Managing CommunicationReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand channels of communication within and between organisations and their effectiveness
- Assess the factors that impact on workplace communication.
- Demonstrate the effective use of own communication skills within the workplace
- Evaluate the effectiveness of communication within an organisation
Marketing Principles and PracticeReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of marketing in business.
- Understand marketing principles.
- Understand marketing methods.
- Understand how to develop a marketing plan for a specific product or service.
Operations ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of operations management
- Understand the impact of operations management on business success
- Understand the tools and techniques used by operations managers
- Understand the ethical considerations facing operations management
Organisational Analysis and ChangeReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of analysing organisational performance.
- Monitor and improve the financial and operational performance of an organisation.
- Understand the nature of change in organisations.
- Understand how organisations manage change.
People ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how structure, culture and other factors impact on people in organisations
- Understand how to manage individuals and teams in order to achieve sustainable business performance
- Understand how to develop individuals and teams in order to achieve sustainable business performance
- Review people management strategies in an organisation
Planning a New Business VentureReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to determine the market potential of a new business venture
- Understand the legal forms of new business ventures
- Develop a business plan
- Understand how to secure funding for a new business venture
Research ProjectReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design a research project
- Undertake a research project in line with a research project plan
- Evaluate research outcomes
- Present the research outcomes
Small Business EnterpriseReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of enterprises and the role of small business enterprises in today’s economy
- Understand the start up of a small business enterprise
- Understand the operation of a small business enterprise
- Understand how to expand a small business enterprise
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 5 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
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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.
- Conduct economic evaluation of healthcare interventions
- Managing Finance
- Review Accounting Systems
- Run a small business
Where this can lead
Lead People Manager
Your journey as a Lead People Manager here is a significant step in your career. It's about scaling your impact, developing others, and truly shaping the future of a major part of our business. We're excited to see where you take it, and we'll support you every step of the way.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 7 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 ATHE Level 5 Extended Diploma in Business and Management
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Applied Economics for Business
- Business Ethics
- Business Law
- Business Organisations in a Global Context
- Finance for Managers
- Financial Systems and Auditing
and 12 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.