OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 7
OTHM Level 7 Diploma 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 7
- Total credits120
- Guided learning600 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
At Level 7, this qualification is for learners who want to develop their knowledge and skills in accounting and finance. It covers areas such as investment analysis, strategic audit, and global finance. Successful candidates will gain skills applicable to roles within the accounting and finance sector.
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.
Business Research MethodsReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify research problems and formulate research objectives.
- Explain how to review the literature on a research topic.
- Design appropriate business research methodologies.
- Develop a research proposal.
Corporate ReportingReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the accounting regulatory framework
- Understand the finance regulatory framework
- Understand accounting concepts
- Understand accounting principles
- Understand accounting theories
- Prepare accounting information
- Interpret accounting information
- Review specific policies within corporate accounting
- Review specific practices within corporate accounting
- Review specific regulations within corporate accounting
Global Finance and StrategyReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of globalisation
- Understand the impact of the global business environment on national business organisations
- Understand the impact of the global business environment on multinational business organisations
- Construct strategies that will result in the enhancement of organisational value
- Evaluate the financial consequences of strategic decisions
- Understand appropriate sources of finance
- Review techniques to manage global risk
- Assess potential investment decisions
- Assess potential global strategies
Investment AnalysisReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of securities available in investment markets.
- Understand the regulation of security trading and new issues in world markets.
- Apply principles of investment theory, securities and market analysis to investment decisions.
- Understand the principles of taxation as they relate to investment income and capital gains.
- Understand the laws and regulations controlling the financial services industry and their impact on investment activities.
- Plan, manage and review client portfolios in accordance with their investment objectives and risk tolerance.
Strategic AuditReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand historic auditing processes and procedures
- Understand current auditing processes and procedures
- Understand the importance of legal requirements when completing an audit
- Understand the importance of professional requirements when completing an audit
- Understand audit strategy
- Understand the risks involved in the audit process
- Understand current developments in auditing
Strategic Financial ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of strategic management to the performance of a business organisation
- Understand the significance of decision making to the performance of a business organisation
- Understand key financial theories
- Apply stakeholder analysis techniques
- Apply corporate valuation techniques
- Understand the role of culture in strategic decision making
- Understand performance measurement systems
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 7 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
Assessor
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.
- Analyse and interpret individual or corporate client investment objectives
- Analyse and report investment implications of international economics and foreign exchange markets
- Carry out financial and investment analysis of a collective fund
- Carry out financial and investment analysis of an individual business
- Develop an investment strategy to meet agreed investment objectives
- Interpret and Analyse Investment Fund Objectives and Parameters
- Provide equity capital research and analysis support for portfolio management activities
- Provide fixed interest securities research and analysis support for portfolio management activities
Where this can lead
Investment Analyst
Your career path is really what you make of it. We'll give you the tools, the training, and the opportunities, but your drive, curiosity, and willingness to learn will ultimately shape where you go. This is just the beginning of a potentially very rewarding journey in finance.
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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
This unit equips learners to identify research problems, formulate objectives, and conduct litreature reviews within a business context. Learners will design appropriate research methodologies and develop comprehensive proposals to support business research projects.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Accounting and Finance
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Business Research Methods
- Corporate Reporting
- Global Finance and Strategy
- Investment Analysis
- Strategic Audit
- Strategic Financial Management
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
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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.