OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 5
OTHM Level 5 Extended Diploma in Accounting and Business
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits240
- Guided learning1,200 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by OTHM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Academic Writing and Research SkillsReal 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 MarketReal 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 EnvironmentReal 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 ManagementReal 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 ControlReal 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 ReportingReal 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 TeamsReal 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 AccountingReal 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 StrategyReal 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 AccountingReal 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 ContextReal 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 ResourcesReal 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.
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.
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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
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Where this can lead
Management Accountant
Your journey as a Management Accountant here isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for a significant career in finance. We're committed to giving you the tools, support, and opportunities to grow, whether that's into leadership or becoming a deep subject matter expert. Your future is what you make of it, and we're here to help you build it.
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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.
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.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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.
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.
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