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 OTHM 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 OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
The OTHM Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Accountancy provides learners with a foundation for a career in financial management and accountancy, equipping them with necessary knowledge and skills.
These are the units OTHM 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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OTHM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. OTHM Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Maintaining Financial Records Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and application of accounting concepts.
- Use the double-entry system of bookkeeping.
- Prepare a three-column cash book.
- Prepare a bank reconciliation statement.
Management Information Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of cost and management accounting.
- Account for labour costs.
- Understand the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the recording of management information.
Recording Financial Transactions Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need to record financial transactions.
- Prepare source documents and Books of Prime (Original) Entry to record financial transactions.
- Understand the classification and management of income and expenditure.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Record financial information and prepare the production’s accounts
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Accounts Assistant
This role can lead to Finance Manager, with responsibility for a small team and a full set of accounts, or further on to Financial Controller or Chief Financial Officer.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OTHM 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
Maintaining Financial RecordsManagement InformationRecording Financial Transactions
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 Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration - Draft the real one Create
You do “Maintaining Financial Records” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Management Information” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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 Maintaining Financial Records, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides an understanding of the importance of keeping financial records, utilising the double-entry bookkeeping system and preparation of cash books and bank reconciliation statements.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Qualifications Level 3 Vocationally-Related Qualification in Accounting and Finance
3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Maintaining Financial Records
- Management Information
- Recording Financial Transactions
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