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Business Finance Course
About the Level 2 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

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Bude (Cornwall)
Stonebridge House, Ocean View Road, EX23 8ST

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Subjects

  • Financial Training
  • Management Accounting
  • Financial
  • Credit
  • Debt Recovery
  • IT
  • Finance
  • Business Finance

Course programme

Syllabus

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
Study Hours

This is only an approximate figure and is dependant upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to your tutor. You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper.

The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is: 100 hrs.

Business Finance

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