Part 1: Foundation Level, National Certificate: Small Business Financial Management
This Qualification will cover:
- Business Management 1
- What is management?
- Management and the environment
- Financial planning and control
- Costing and pricing
- Managing working capital
- Working with SARS
- Introduction to computing
- The windows operating system
- Working with internet and email
- Bookkeeping to Trial Balance
- An introduction to business, bookkeeping and accounting
- Value Added Tax and source documents
- Recording cash transactions
- Recording credit and sundry transactions
- Inventory systems
- Individual accounts for debtors and creditors, and supplier and general ledger reconciliations
- The bank reconciliation process
- Drafting financial statements
- Business Literacy
- The key principles of effective business communication
- Spoken communication
- Written communication
- Work readiness
- Working with numbers: an introduction
- Working with fractions and decimal numbers
- Percentages, ratios, proportions and equations
- Using interest rates in business
- Measure, analyse and communicate workplace data
- Business communication – Putting it all together
- Business numeracy – Putting it all together
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Part 2: Intermediate Level, Higher Certificate: Office Administration
This Qualification will cover:
- Office and Legal Practice
- The role and function of the administrative assistant
- Reception and diary management
- Office equipment and ergonomics
- Office supplies
- Creating evidence and maintaining confidentiality
- Record management systems
- Handling mail
- Travel and events management
- Creating business documents
- Banking, cash control and the business information manual
- An introduction to business law
- Acts and laws for business
- Business Management 2
- Office equipment and ergonomics
- Filing systems and records management
- Reception duties
- Dealing with customer queries
- Travel and events management
- How to manage yourself in the workplace
- Banking, cash control and the business information manual
- Marketing Management and Public Relations
- Basic concepts in marketing management
- The internal marketing environment
- The external marketing environment
- Formulating a marketing strategy
- Understanding ‘Product’ in the marketing mix
- Understanding ‘Place’ in the marketing mix
- Understanding 'Price' in the marketing mix
- Understanding 'Promotion' in the marketing mix
- The role of public relations and mass communication in business
- Integration – Formulating a strategic marketing plan
- Financial Statements
- Recording business financial transactions
- Depreciable assets
- Finalisation and interpretation of accounts
- Financial statements of the sole proprietorship
- Internal reporting for corporate entities
- An Introduction to IFRS for SMMEs
- Statement of cash flows
- Human Resources Management and Labour Relations
- An introduction to human resource management
- Strategising, structuring and planning
- Recruiting potential employees
- Selection and appointment of an employee
- Placement and the induction or orientation process
- Managing performance of employees
- Compensation management
- Health and safety in an organisation
- Career management
- Human resource development
- Organisational behaviour (OB)
- Employment relations
- Structures created by the LRA for collective bargaining and dispute resolution
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Part 3: Advanced Level, National Diploma: Financial Accounting
This Qualification will cover:
- Business Management 3
- Office supplies
- Handling petty cash and the principles of insurance
- Internal control concepts
- The key principles of customer service
- Factors affecting customer service
- Human resource development and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act
- Business organisations
- Preparing yourself for the workplace
- Financial Management and Control
- An introduction to information systems
- Management information systems
- An introduction to auditing
- The role and function of the financial manager
- Material and inventory control
- Labour cost control
- Allocating and controlling overheads
- Job costing
- Contract costing
- Research Theory and Practice
- Financial Reporting and Regulatory Frameworks
- Introduction to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the Conceptual Framework
- IAS 1 – Presentation of financial statements
- IAS 16 – Property, plant and equipment
- IAS 40 – Investment property
- IAS 36 – Impairment of assets
- IAS 38 – Intangible assets
- IAS 2 – Inventories
- IAS 37 – Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets
- IAS 17 – Leases
- Financial instruments
- IAS10 – Events after the reporting period
- IAS18 – Revenue
- IAS19 – Employee benefits
- IAS21 – The effects of changes in foreign exchange rates
- IAS33 – Earnings per share
- IAS12 – Income taxes
- IAS8 – Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors
- IAS7 – Statement of cash flows
- Consolidated financial statements
- Financial reporting requirements of the Companies Act 2008
- Sage One Pastel (additional course added)

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