Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment · RQF Level 6
CISI Level 6 Diploma in Corporate Finance
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Guided learning66 hours
- Units in this qualification4
Awarded by Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Corporate finance qualification offered by the CISI and ICAEW
These are the units Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment 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.
Corporate Finance Strategy & AdviceReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the principles of corporate strategy and its impact on financial decision-making
- Evaluate the processes involved in mergers and acquisitions, including valuation and due diligence
- Assess corporate performance using financial metrics and identify areas for reconstruction or improvement
- Utilise supporting materials to enhance understanding of mergers and acquisitions, and corporate performance and reconstructions
Financial Reporting and Financial Statements AnalysisReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the information presented in the Income Statement and its significance for financial analysis
- Analyse the Statement of Financial Position to assess a company's assets, liabilities, and equity
- Evaluate the Cash Flow Statement and Free Cash Flows to understand a company's liquidity and financial health
- Apply the principles of group accounting to consolidate financial statements of related entities
- Conduct comprehensive financial analysis using various ratios and techniques to assess a company's performance and risk
Mergers & Acquisitions and Market RegulationsReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of Making Acquisitions
- Analyse Deal Structuring and Financing options in mergers and acquisitions
- Understand the processes involved in Disposals and Demergers
- Understand the Main Regulations for Listed Companies
- Understand Other Regulatory and Ethical Considerations relevant to mergers and acquisitions
Sources of Finance, Capital Investments and ValuationsReal unit · Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of the Equity Capital Market (ECM)
- Understand the principles of the Debt Capital Market (DCM)
- Identify and evaluate alternative sources of finance for organisations
- Calculate and interpret the Cost of Capital for investment decisions
- Apply Capital Budgeting techniques to evaluate investment opportunities
- Apply different methods for Company Valuation
- Understand the use of Derivatives and Risk Management techniques in corporate finance
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 6 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
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.
Where this can lead
Mergers and Acquisitions Manager
Your journey as an M&A Manager is just the beginning. The skills you hone here—analytical rigour, deal execution, leadership, and strategic thinking—will open doors to a wide array of senior leadership roles, both within our organisation and across the broader investment and corporate landscape. It's a challenging path, but for the right person, it's incredibly rewarding.
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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 enables learners to analyse corporate strategy and its influence on financial decision-making. Learners will evaluate mergers and acquisitions processes and assess corporate performance and reconstruction using relevant financial metrics.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CISI Level 6 Diploma in Corporate Finance
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
- Corporate Finance Strategy & Advice
- Financial Reporting and Financial Statements Analysis
- Mergers & Acquisitions and Market Regulations
- Sources of Finance, Capital Investments and Valuations
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.
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