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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Qualifi Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Qualifi Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Qualifi Ltd.

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01What it is

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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Qualifi Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. Qualifi Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Accounting in a Business Context Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of organisational structures and their impact on accounting practices. You'll also study professional ethics and regulatory principles relevant to accounting.

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 Business Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
It teaches you to understand the impact of macro-economic and micro-economic factors on organisations, including inflation, interest rates, supply and demand, and market structures. You'll also explore the relationship between economic factors and the international business environment.

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 Business Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
You'll explore the relationship between business ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and financial decision-making. The unit covers corporate governance, ethical behaviour, and analysis of complex CSR and governance issues within organisations.

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 Accounting Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
You'll learn to value stock and direct materials using various methods, account for year-end adjustments, and prepare final accounts for sole traders and partnerships. The unit supports accurate financial reporting in these contexts.

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 Management Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
You'll gain knowledge of financial theories, including the time value of money and capital asset pricing. The unit covers working capital management and techniques to analyse and manage global financial risks.

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 Control Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit covers the principles of corporate governance related to financial planning and control, the economic and financial management environment, and the assessment of investment decisions and global strategies. You'll develop knowledge of directors' responsibilities and auditors' roles in financial oversight.

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 Reporting Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
You'll learn to manage organisational assets and control accounts, including procedures for asset management and account reconciliation. The unit also covers the production of various financial statements to support accurate financial reporting.

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 Accounting Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
You'll explore leadership and management theories and their application within accounting contexts. The unit covers motivation theory, teamworking, and evaluates leadership styles to support effective management in accounting environments.

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 Accounting Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit develops learners' ability to prepare and analyse budgets using standard costing and capital expenditure appraisal techniques. You'll understand costing methods and apply them within a management accounting framework.

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 People Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of recruitment, selection, people management, reward and recognition, and staff training and development within organisations. You'll evaluate legal requirements and the role of human resources in effective people management.

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 Methods Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit equips learners with the ability to apply mathematical techniques and statistical methods to accounting problems. You'll create and interpret graphs, charts, and diagrams of financial information to inform organisational decision-making.

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 Taxation Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of taxation principles, including equity, efficiency, certainty, and convenience. The unit covers personal and business taxation, enabling learners to analyse tax requirements and implications for individuals and organisations.

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
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03Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 57 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Financial Reporting Accountant

This work can lead to managing a reporting team or becoming a technical accounting specialist.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Qualifi Ltd 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

Accounting in a Business ContextEconomics for BusinessEthics and Corporate Social Responsibility in BusinessFinancial AccountingFinancial ManagementFinancial Planning and ControlFinancial ReportingLeadership and Management in 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 Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Financial Planning and Control” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • 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 “Accounting in a Business Context” 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.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Financial Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

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 Accounting in a Business Context, one of this qualification's own units.

Accounting in a Business Context Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Financial Reporting AccountantFinancial Reporting AnalystLead Management AccountantDirector, Financial Controls & GovernanceFinancial Reporting ManagerFinance Governance Manager

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.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

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.

  1. Accounting in a Business Context
  2. Economics for Business
  3. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in Business
  4. Financial Accounting
  5. Financial Management
  6. Financial Planning and Control

and 6 more in the full unit list below.

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.

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