Qualifi Ltd · RQF Level 5
Qualifi Level 5 Extended 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 5
- Total credits240
- Guided learning1,200 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by Qualifi Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Accounting and Finance develops knowledge and skills in accounting principles and financial management. Learners explore management accounting, financial planning, and business ethics. It is suitable for those seeking advanced vocational training in the accounting and finance sector.
These are the units Qualifi Ltd 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.
Accounting in a Business ContextReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of organisational structures, including their advantages and disadvantages
- Understand the principles of professional ethics and regulation in accounting, including the role of regulatory bodies
Economics for BusinessReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the ways in which macro-economic factors affect organisations, including inflation, interest rates, and exchange rates
- Understand the ways in which micro-economics factors affect organisations, including supply and demand, and market structures
- Understand the ways in which macro- economics and micro-economics relate to the international business environment, including trade and investment
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in BusinessReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between business ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and financial decision-making, including the impact of ethical considerations on financial performance
- Understand the nature and role of corporate governance and ethical behaviour within an organisation
- Analyse complex CSR and corporate governance issues in an organisation, and recommend appropriate solutions
Financial AccountingReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Value stock using appropriate accounting methods
- Value direct materials (i.e. inventory) using appropriate accounting methods
- Account for year-end adjustments in financial statements
- Prepare final accounts for sole traders in accordance with accounting standards
- Prepare final accounts for partnerships in accordance with accounting standards
Financial ManagementReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of finance
- Understand the management of working capital
- Analyse techniques used to manage global risk
Financial Planning and ControlReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand corporate governance as it relates to organisations’ financial planning and control, including the responsibilities of directors and auditors
- Understand the economic and financial management environment, including the impact of macroeconomic factors on financial planning
- Assess potential investment decisions and global strategies, considering risk and return
Financial ReportingReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage an organisation’s assets, including current and non-current assets
- Manage control accounts, including reconciliation procedures
- Produce a range of financial statements, including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
Leadership and Management in AccountingReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of leadership theories to accounting practices within organisations
- Understand the application of management theories to accounting practices within organisations
- Understand motivation theory in the context of accounting teams and individuals
- Understand the practical application of motivation techniques in accounting environments
- Understand the role of effective teamworking in achieving accounting objectives
- Understand how to promote effective teamworking within accounting teams
Management AccountingReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare budgets for an organisation
- Use standard costing techniques
- Use capital expenditure and appraisal techniques
- Understand costing techniques
Management of PeopleReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in recruitment and selection of staff
- Understand the legal requirements relating to recruitment and selection
- Understand different approaches to people management within organisations
- Understand how to effectively manage employee performance
- Understand the role of organisational reward systems in motivating staff
- Understand the role of organisational recognition processes in improving staff morale
- Understand the importance of staff training and development
- Understand how to identify staff training and development needs
Mathematical Accounting MethodsReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply a range of mathematical techniques to solve accounting problems
- Select appropriate mathematical methods for specific accounting tasks
- Create graphs to visually represent financial information
- Create charts to visually represent financial information
- Create diagrams to visually represent financial information
- Use graphs, charts and diagrams to support organisational decision-making
- Apply statistical methods to analyse financial data
- Use statistical methods to provide relevant financial and accounting information
Principles and Practices of TaxationReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning taxation systems
- Understand the key concepts related to personal taxation
- Understand the processes involved in calculating personal tax liabilities
- Understand the key concepts related to business taxation
- Understand the processes involved in calculating business tax liabilities
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 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
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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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 provides learners with an understanding of organisational structures and their impact on accounting practices. Learners will also study professional ethics and regulatory principles relevant to accounting.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Accounting and Finance
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifi Ltd.
- Accounting in a Business Context
- Economics for Business
- Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in Business
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Management
- Financial Planning and Control
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.
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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.
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