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.
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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.
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.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Academic Writing and Research Skills Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept and purpose of academic research and writing.
- Understand how to conduct academic research.
- Demonstrate critical thinking skills.
- Understand how to construct a reliable and valid academic argument.
Business Start-up: Conception to Market Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental requirements and considerations for starting a new business venture.
- Understand the various sources of support, including funding, mentorship, and resources, available to new businesses.
- Create a comprehensive business plan for a new business, designed to attract and secure stakeholder support and investment.
Business and the Economic Environment Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of businesses.
- Understand the influence of the internal and external environment on a business.
- Understand how macro-economic factors impact a business.
- Understand how micro-economics factors impact on a business.
Financial Management Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key functions of financial management within an organisation.
- Understand the principles and techniques of working capital management.
- Understand how capital is structured within a business and the factors influencing capital structure decisions.
Financial Planning and Control Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the functions of financial planning
- Understand the functions of financial control
- Understand sources of business finance
- Understand the techniques used to develop investment strategy
- Understand global financial risk management
- Understand the principles of corporate governance and how they support effective financial planning and control
Financial Reporting Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of financial reporting
- Understand the purpose of budgets
- Report on the outcome of control accounts
- Report the outcome of an investment appraisal
- Report on the financial performance of a business
Leading and Managing Teams Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Compare and contrast different leadership and management theories, including their strengths, weaknesses, and applications in various organisational contexts.
- Explain how teams are developed, including the stages of team development, team roles, and team dynamics.
- Evaluate methods to improve individual and team performance, including motivation techniques, performance management systems, and team-building activities.
- Evaluate your own capacity to be an effective leader and manager, identifying your strengths, weaknesses, and areas for development.
Management Accounting Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the functions of management accounting in business
- Know the importance of budgeting
- Know the importance of working capital management
- Know the importance of accounting for depreciation
- Calculate standard costs
- Calculate budget variances
- Apply break-even analysis in different contexts
Principles and Concepts of Business Strategy Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles that underpin effective business strategy development and implementation.
- Understand key business strategy theories and concepts, including their application in different organisational contexts.
- Understand the range of strategic options available to a business and the factors influencing their selection.
Principles of Financial Accounting Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why businesses need to establish financial record-keeping systems.
- Account for year-end adjustments.
- Prepare financial reporting statements for different types of organisations.
- Understand how professional characteristics and ethical principles are applied and regulated in an accountancy context.
Quantitative Methods in a Business Context Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use numerical techniques in a business context.
- Construct and use graphs, charts and diagrams for informed decision making.
- Understand how business and management data is used to inform business decision making.
The Management of Human Resources Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the overall purpose and strategic objectives of human resource management (HRM) within an organisation.
- Understand the key functions of human resource management, including recruitment, training, performance management, and employee relations.
- Analyse how internal organisational factors and external environmental factors impact the human resource management function.
- Understand modern developments and emerging trends in human resource management practices within a business environment.
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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
Management Accountant
This work can lead to a finance business partner role, then on to finance manager or a senior position such as head of FP&A.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 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
Academic Writing and Research SkillsBusiness Start-up: Conception to MarketBusiness and the Economic EnvironmentFinancial ManagementFinancial Planning and ControlFinancial ReportingLeading and Managing TeamsManagement Accounting
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 Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Business Start-up: Conception to Market” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Financial Planning and Control” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Financial Management” 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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Academic Writing and Research Skills” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
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 Academic Writing and Research Skills, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit supports the exploration of key topics that are part of the academic research and writing process.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 5 Extended Diploma in Accounting and Business
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Academic Writing and Research Skills
- Business Start-up: Conception to Market
- Business and the Economic Environment
- Financial Management
- Financial Planning and Control
- Financial Reporting
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
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