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OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 6

OTHM Qualifications Level 6 Vocationally-Related Qualification in Accounting and Finance

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits120
  • Guided learning480 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

Awarded by OTHM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

The OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Accounting and Business is designed to equip learners with the essential knowledge and skills required for middle or senior management roles involving financial management, investment, risk management, and business research.

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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Audit and AssuranceReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit develops understanding of internal and external audit principles, current legal requirements, and risk evaluation in external audits.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand internal audit principles.
  • Understand external audit legal and professional requirements.
  • Understand risks in external audit process.
  • Understand audit practices.
Business Performance MeasurementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit develops learners' understanding of performance management techniques and measures in profit and non-profit making organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand principles of performance measurement.
  • Understand performance analysis.
  • Understand specialist cost and management accounting techniques.
  • Understand performance measurement reporting.
Business Research ProjectReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit develops research skills, including formulating research questions, conducting independent research, and presenting findings.

What you'll be able to do

  • Propose a research project.
  • Prepare research plan and conduct literature review.
  • Conduct research as per specification.
  • Evaluate research and present results.
Corporate and Business LawReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit develops learners' understanding of the concepts and principles of English Corporate and Business Law, applying them to practical situations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand key elements of the English legal system.
  • Understand English legislation relating to anti-competitive practices.
  • Understand intellectual property rights.
  • Understand the legal relationship between business organisations and their consumers.
  • Understand the legal background relating to limited companies.
Financial Securities MarketsReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit develops learners' understanding of investment theories, securities, and market analysis, alongside relevant legislation affecting the financial services industry.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand types and trading of securities.
  • Understand principles of investment theory and market analysis.
  • Understand legislation and regulation in financial services.
Investment and Risk ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides understanding of trading and investment techniques alongside risk factors in market trading and investment mitigation strategies.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand principles of financial market trading.
  • Understand investment theory and trading performance.
  • Understand risks associated with trading.

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 6 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.

Audit and AssuranceBusiness Performance MeasurementBusiness Research ProjectCorporate and Business LawFinancial Securities MarketsInvestment and Risk Management

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

Assessor

Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where this connects

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.

Where this can lead

Internal Auditor

Your journey here as an Internal Auditor is just the beginning. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's into a leadership role within audit, a specialist role, or even moving into another part of the business. The skills you'll build are foundational for a really strong career in finance, offering plenty of options down the line.

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Opens the roleInternal AuditorOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 5 near-identical records folded inSee the role →Opens the roleAuditorOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleInternal Audit AssociateOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Opens the roleAudit AssociateOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 2 near-identical records folded inSee the role →Opens the roleInternal Audit ManagerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Opens the roleAssociate Internal AuditorOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 6 near-identical records folded inSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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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.
Audit and AssuranceLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Internal AuditorAuditorInternal Audit AssociateAudit AssociateInternal Audit ManagerAssociate Internal Auditor

This unit develops understanding of internal and external audit principles, current legal requirements, and risk evaluation in external audits.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for OTHM Qualifications Level 6 Vocationally-Related Qualification in Accounting and Finance

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.

  1. Audit and Assurance
  2. Business Performance Measurement
  3. Business Research Project
  4. Corporate and Business Law
  5. Financial Securities Markets
  6. Investment and Risk Management
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 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, free

No 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.