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Overview

Framework:
Access to HE 2024
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
6
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.

Know about business plans.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1.

    Explain the purpose of a business plan.

  • 1.2.

    Summarise the relationship between the business plan and business objectives.

  • 1.3.

    Recognise key elements of an effective business plan.


2.

Know how to use data to meet business objectives.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1.

    Evaluate methods to determine a business’s current market position.

  • 2.2.

    Analyse how market research data can determine a business’s ability to meet current and new market opportunities, including those in the global marketplace.

  • 2.3.

    Analyse potential business constraints that could impact on business performance.


3.

Understand business strategy and tactics.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1.

    Explain differences between strategy and tactics.

  • 3.2.

    Analyse strategies and tactics used in a business.

  • 3.3.

    Explain the need to continually analyse and compare business strategies and tactics against business objectives.


4.

Understand financial forecasting.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1.

    Describe financial forecasting.

  • 4.2.

    Explain the role of budgets within a business.

  • 4.3.

    Summarise the impact of external funding on strategic financial forecasts and business plans.

  • 4.4

    Analyse areas of financial risk to a business.

  • 4.5

    Explain methods of improving financial forecasts and plans.

  • 4.6

    Evaluate different sources of business finance.


5.

Be able to analyse how a business can expand internationally.

Assessment Criteria

  • 5.1

    Explain the international business environment in which a selected business operates.

  • 5.2

    Describe factors that impact on UK businesses operating overseas.

  • 5.3

    Explain the process of international expansion for a selected aspect of a business.

  • 5.4

    Demonstrate different ways a UK business could expand internationally.