Business Finance Course - Distance

Comments about Business Finance Course - Online

• Objectives
  At the end of the course you will be able to:
  
  * Define the need for keeping books
  * Describe common book-keeping methods
  * Understand credit control techniques and methods
  * Devise debt recovery procedures
  * Understand costing and pricing models and methods
  * Conduct break even analyses
  * Prepare a trading budget
  * Manage cash and cashflow
  * Compose basic financial reports
• Academic title
  At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Level 2 NCFE Award certificate of achievement. That means that it is independently accredited at a level of learning equivalent to level 2 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland"
• Course description
  
  Student Profile
  
  This programme is designed for people seeking to understand and apply the principles of finance and financial control of a business.  The course is particularly suited to the general manager with responsibility for a small organisation or a department, needing a broad understanding of a range of financial planning and management techniques.
  
  Study Method
  
  The course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home.  Students receive course manual, assignments and studyguide plus tutor support by mail and email.
  
  Tutor Support
  
  Students receive full tutor support by e-mail and post for a full 12 months from the day they receive the course.
  
  Assignments
  
  Assessment takes the form of a series of tutor marked assignments, which can be sent to the tutor by e-mail or post. There is no word count for these assignments however you have to prove to your tutor that you have fully understood the question asked. 
  
  Awarding Body Information
  
  NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the qualification regulators ('regulators') for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The regulators are the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) in England, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) in Wales and the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland
  
  Course Outline
  
  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

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