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Business Finance

About the Business Finance Certificate

This short course will teach you about the decisions underpinning corporate finance and give you the financial tools that could help you progress in your job role.

Over the suggested 100 hours of study, you will learn about book keeping, credit control, and notions of costing and pricing. You will learn to apply tools of management accounting with modules on budgets, cashflow, profit and loss which will enable you to ultimately create management reports essential in any business decision making process.

Who should study this course?

Middle and senior managers deal with a wealth of financial issues within organisations. This course introduces fundamental finance concepts, enough to offer a solid overview to any manager regardless of their area of expertise or qualifications.

None of the courses at Stonebridge Associated Colleges require prior experience in the intended subject of study. To successfully complete this short-term course in finance all you need is a means to access the online study materials and the motivation to finish it.

What happens after the course?

At the end of this finance course you will have a solid understanding of practical financial issues that take place in a business. You will be able to devise debt recovery procedures, conduct break even analyses, manage cash and cashflow and draw up basic financial reports. You can follow up your studies with a degree in finance, in a higher education institution. All the same you could apply your knowledge directly to the job role you already have.

Financial skills bring a real opportunity to any business professional. If you work as a retail manager, or a data analyst this type of course could set you aside from your peers in terms of career progression. If you want a professional change this type of study could help you towards positions like:

  • Chartered accountant
  • Economist
  • Stockbroker

For more information about this course, give us a call on this number: 0121 392 8288

Qualification: Business Finance

On successful completion of your course, you will receive a Stonebridge Associated Colleges Certificate of Completion.

Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.

*You will have access to the course for 24 months.

Module A: book-keeping

  • Why keep books?
  • Book-keeping methods
  • Introduction to VAT
  • The analysed cash book
  • Sales and purchase day books
  • Reconciling the bank account
  • Double entry book-keeping
  • Single entry systems

Module B: Credit Control

  • Cracking the credit problem
  • Is my customer credit worthy?
  • Credit control routines
  • Debt recovery through the courts
  • Statutory demands, insolvency and bankruptcy
  • VAT and tax relief for bad debts

Module C: Costing & Pricing

  • Pricing a product
  • Costing a product
  • Pricing a service
  • Break even analysis
  • Contribution theory
  • Absorption costing

Module D: Management Accounting

  • Budgets
  • Cashflow
  • Managing cash
  • The trading budget
  • The profit & loss account
  • Management reports
  • Manual accounting records
  • Computerised accounting records
  • Breakeven analysis

Assessment Method

After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.

 

What's Included

  • All study materials
  • Study Guide
  • Full Tutor and Admin support
  • The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £30.00).
OUR PASS RATE
Accounting and Finance
97.2%
(National Average 60.7%)
Business Finance

About the Business Finance Certificate

This short course will teach you about the decisions underpinning corporate finance and give you the financial tools that could help you progress in your job role.

Over the suggested 100 hours of study, you will learn about book keeping, credit control, and notions of costing and pricing. You will learn to apply tools of management accounting with modules on budgets, cashflow, profit and loss which will enable you to ultimately create management reports essential in any business decision making process.

Who should study this course?

Middle and senior managers deal with a wealth of financial issues within organisations. This course introduces fundamental finance concepts, enough to offer a solid overview to any manager regardless of their area of expertise or qualifications.

None of the courses at Stonebridge Associated Colleges require prior experience in the intended subject of study. To successfully complete this short-term course in finance all you need is a means to access the online study materials and the motivation to finish it.

What happens after the course?

At the end of this finance course you will have a solid understanding of practical financial issues that take place in a business. You will be able to devise debt recovery procedures, conduct break even analyses, manage cash and cashflow and draw up basic financial reports. You can follow up your studies with a degree in finance, in a higher education institution. All the same you could apply your knowledge directly to the job role you already have.

Financial skills bring a real opportunity to any business professional. If you work as a retail manager, or a data analyst this type of course could set you aside from your peers in terms of career progression. If you want a professional change this type of study could help you towards positions like:

  • Chartered accountant
  • Economist
  • Stockbroker

For more information about this course, give us a call on this number: 0121 392 8288

Accounting and Finance
OUR PASS RATE
(National Average 60.7%)
97.2%

On completion of your course, you will receive two certificates:

Certificate 1 is issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges: Business Finance Certificate

Business Finance Certificate issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, to view a sample of the college’s award, please click here.

Certificate 2 is issued by Quality Licence Scheme: Level 2 Business Finance Certificate of Achievement

At the end of this course successful learners will be given the option to receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Stonebridge Associated Colleges has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 2 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

The course itself has been designed Stonebridge Associated Colleges to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. The Quality Licence Scheme endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through our awarding organisations we have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. We are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Our knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables us to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales

To view a sample of the Certificate of Achievement, please click here.

Professional Membership

On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):

Stonebridge

On successful completion of your course your qualification is awarded. You will receive an attractively presented Diploma or Certificate issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, this will also allow you to use the letters SAC. Dip. or SAC. Cert. after your name.

Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the leading (and biggest) distance education colleges in the U.K and internationally. We have many thousands of students studying with us at any one time from locations all over the world. Our diplomas will always count towards your future, and will improve your prospects of future employment or higher level study etc. by proving that you have studied to a certain level, that you have proficiency in your chosen subjects and that you are interested in your field of choice. Education is always an investment in your future and you will find this to be the case with our qualifications in your jurisdiction.

Module A: book-keeping

  • Why keep books?
  • Book-keeping methods
  • Introduction to VAT
  • The analysed cash book
  • Sales and purchase day books
  • Reconciling the bank account
  • Double entry book-keeping
  • Single entry systems

Module B: Credit Control

  • Cracking the credit problem
  • Is my customer credit worthy?
  • Credit control routines
  • Debt recovery through the courts
  • Statutory demands, insolvency and bankruptcy
  • VAT and tax relief for bad debts

Module C: Costing & Pricing

  • Pricing a product
  • Costing a product
  • Pricing a service
  • Break even analysis
  • Contribution theory
  • Absorption costing

Module D: Management Accounting

  • Budgets
  • Cashflow
  • Managing cash
  • The trading budget
  • The profit & loss account
  • Management reports
  • Manual accounting records
  • Computerised accounting records
  • Breakeven analysis

Assessment Method

After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.

 

What's Included

  • All study materials
  • Study Guide
  • Full Tutor and Admin support
  • The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £30.00).
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