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Section title: Curriculum links for Scotland
  • Introduction
  • Using the lessons
  • Key skills links
  • Curriculum links
  • Curriculum links for Scotland


    Participation in the Competition will support teaching and learning in HND, HNC, SVQ, Intermediate and Higher courses. The lessons supplied here are relevant to sections of Business Management, Accounting and Economics specifications.

    The details are outlined below.

    Business Management

    Business Management (Intermediate 1)

    Unit: Business enterprise

    • Business in contemporary society

    Unit: Business decision areas

    • Marketing
    • Operations
    • Financial management
    • Human resource management

    Unit: Business information and ICT

    • Business information

    Business Management (Intermediate 2)

    Unit: Business enterprise

    • Business in contemporary society
    • Business information and ICT
    • Decision making
    • Internal organisation

    Unit: Business decision areas: marketing and operations

    • Marketing
    • Operations

    Unit: Business decision areas: finance and human resources management

    • Financial management
    • Human resource management

    Business Management (Higher)

    Unit: Business enterprise

    • Business in contemporary society
    • Business information and ICT
    • Decision making in business
    • Internal organisation

    Unit: Business decision areas: marketing and operations

    • Marketing
    • Operations

    Unit: Business decision areas: finance and human resources management

    • Financial management
    • Human resource management

    Business Management (Advanced Higher)

    Unit: Managing organisations: The external environment

    • European union
    • Business issues

    Unit: Managing organisations: The internal environment

    • Role of management
    • Management thought
    • Change

    Unit: Researching a business

    • Business details
    • Stakeholders
    • Decision making

    Extra topic: Strategy for future development

    HNC Business

    Mandatory units:

    • Business accounting
    • Economic issues: an introduction
    • Managing people and organisations
    • Communication: analysing and presenting complex information
    • Business: graded unit 1

    Optional units:

    • Business culture and strategy
    • Economics 1: Micro and Macro Theory and Application 1
    • Economics 2: The World Economy 1
    • Preparing Financial Forecasts
    • Statistics for business
    • Business taxation
    • Corporate information systems
    • Financial sector: an introduction
    • Financial services regulatory framework
    • Investment
    • Principles and practice of selling
    • Preparing and presenting a business plan
    • Developing entrepreneurial skills
    • Analysing employee relations
    • Introduction to Operations Management 1
    • Operations Management Practice
    • Marketing practice: an introduction
    • Introduction to economic analysis
    • Marketing skills for the entrepreneur
    • Human resource management
    • Training and development
    • Recording financial information
    • Marketing research
    • Marketing planning

    HND Business

    Mandatory units:

    • Business Accounting 2
    • Economic Issues: An Introduction 1
    • Marketing: An Introduction 1
    • Managing People and Organisations
    • Communication: Analysing and Presenting Complex Communication
    • Business Culture and Strategy
    • Economics 1: Micro and Macro Theory and Application
    • Preparing Financial Forecasts
    • Statistics for Business 1
    • Business: Graded Unit 1
    • Business: Graded Unit 2
    • Business: Graded Unit 3

    Optional units:

    • Business Taxation
    • Corporate Information Systems
    • Financial Sector: An Introduction
    • Financial Services Regulatory Framework
    • Investment
    • Preparing and Presenting a Business Plan
    • Developing Entrepreneurial Skills
    • Analysing Employee Relations
    • Marketing Practice: An Introduction
    • Introduction to Economic Analysis
    • Marketing Skills for the Entrepreneur
    • Human resource management
    • Training and development
    • Recording financial information

    HNC in Management

    Mandatory units:

    • Management: Plan, lead and implement change
    • Management: Graded unit 1

    Optional units:

    • Management: Managing financial resources
    • Managing Information
    • Marketing: An Introduction
    • Human Resource Management: Introduction
    • Economic Issues: An Introduction
    • Preparing Financial Forecasts
    • Project Management: Project Justification and Planning
    • Project Management: Managing the Implementation of a Project
    • Statistics for Business
    • Marketing Planning for a Domestic
    • Market

    HND in Management

    Mandatory units:

    • Management: Plan, lead and implement change
    • Management: Graded unit 1
    • Management: Organisational Leadership and Development
    • Management: Develop Strategic Plans
    • Management: Strategic Change
    • Management Research

    Optional units group A

    • Managing knowledge
    • Management: Managing financial resources
    • Managing Information
    • Marketing: An Introduction
    • Human Resource Management: Introduction
    • Economic Issues: An Introduction

    Optional units group B

    • Preparing Financial Forecasts
    • Project Management: Project Justification and Planning
    • Project Management: Managing the Implementation of a Project
    • Statistics for Business
    • Marketing Planning for a Domestic Market
    • Managing organisational risks
    • Management: Organisational innovation

    SVQ in Management (level 5)

    Mandatory units:

    • Provide leadership for your
    • Encourage innovation in your organisation
    • Improve organisational performance

    Optional units:

    • segmentation analysis

    10.2 Marketing Strategy

    • Develop a strategic business plan for your organisation
    • Put the strategic business plan into action
    • Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements
    • Develop the culture of your organisation
    • Manage risk
    • Promote equality of opportunity and diversity in your organisation
    • Lead change
    • Plan change
    • Implement change
    • Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and
    • Stakeholders
    • Plan the workforce
    • Obtain additional finance for the organisation
    • Promote the use of technology within your organisation
    • Manage a programme of complementary projects
    • Develop and review a framework for marketing
    • Build your organisation’s understanding of its market and customers
    • Develop a customer focussed organisation

    Accounting

    Accounting (Intermediate 1)

    Unit: Financial Accounting

    • Role of the financial accountant
    • Business documents
    • Recording entries in ledger accounts
    • Accuracy of ledger
    • Petty cash statement
    • Bank reconciliation statements
    • Features of ownership, funding, liability, management and control
    • Final statements and balance sheets
    • Accounting ratios

    Unit: Management Accounting

    • Role of the management accountant
    • Classification of calculation of costs
    • Preparation of cost statements
    • Marginal costing and decision-making
    • Budgeting

    Accounting (Intermediate 2)

    Unit: Financial accounting

    • Role of the financial accountant
    • Business documents
    • Recording entries in ledger accounts
    • Accuracy of ledger
    • Features of ownership, funding, liability, management and control
    • Manufacturing accounts
    • Final statements and balance sheets
    • Accounting ratios

    Unit: Management Accounting

    • social responsibilities

    12.6 Business Strategy

    • Role of the management accountant
    • Classification of calculation of costs
    • Preparation of cost statements and accounts
    • Marginal costing and decision-making
    • Budgeting

    Accounting (Higher)

    Unit: Financial accounting

    • Role of the financial accountant
    • Correction of errors in ledger accounts
    • Features of ownership, funding, liability, management and control
    • Manufacturing accounts
    • Financial statements and balance sheets
    • Admission of new partner
    • Accounting ratios

    Unit: Management Accounting

    • Role of the management accountant
    • Classification of calculation of costs
    • Preparation of cost statements and accounts
    • Marginal costing and decision-making
    • Budgeting

    Accounting (Advanced Higher)

    Unit: Financial Accounting

    • Financial accounts and balance sheets of a plc
    • Consolidated balance sheets
    • Ratio analysis
    • Cash flow statement

    Unit: Management Accounting

    • Classification of costs
    • Elements of costs
    • Activity based costing
    • Standard costing - variance analysis
    • Budgets
    • Service or operating costing
    • Contract costing
    • Process-costing
    • Marginal and absorption costing
    • Marginal costing and decision making
    • Investment appraisal

    HNC Accounting

    Mandatory units:

    • Recording financial information
    • Preparing final accounts
    • Cost accounting
    • Accounting: Graded unit 1

    Optional units:

    • Statistics for business
    • Communication: Analysing and presenting complex communication
    • Corporate information systems
    • Economic issues: an introduction
    • Marketing: an introduction
    • Economics 1: micro and macro theory and application
    • Business culture and strategy
    • Managing people and organisations
    • Income tax
    • Auditing
    • Human resource management: introduction

    HND Accounting

    Mandatory units:

    • Recording financial information
    • Preparing final accounts
    • Cost accounting
    • Management accounting for planning and control
    • Management accounting for decision making
    • Financial reporting and analysis
    • Business taxation
    • Accounting: graded unit 1
    • Accounting: graded unit 2
    • Accounting: graded unit 3

    Optional units:

    • Statistics for business
    • Communication: Analysing and presenting complex communication
    • Corporate information systems
    • Economic issues: an introduction
    • Marketing: an introduction
    • Economics 1: micro and macro theory and application
    • Developing entrepreneurial skills
    • Business culture and strategy
    • Income tax
    • Auditing
    • Financial sector: an introduction
    • Human resource management: introduction

    Economics

    Economics (Intermediate 1)

    Unit: Microeconomics

    • The basic economic problem
    • Demand
    • Supply
    • Costs
    • Markets

    Unit: The UK economy

    • Inflation
    • Economic activity of the government

    Economics (Intermediate 2)

    Unit: Microeconomics

    • The basic economic problem
    • Demand
    • Supply
    • Costs
    • Markets

    Unit: The UK economy

    • Inflation
    • Economic activity of the government

    Economics (Higher)

    Unit: Microeconomics

    • The basic economic problem
    • Demand
    • Supply
    • The operation of markets
    • Market intervention

    Unit: The UK economy

    • National Income
    • Inflation and employment
    • The role of government in the economy
    • Government economic policies
    • Market failure policies

    Unit: The International Economy

    • planning for survival and growth

    Unit 2 Business and Management

    1. Organisational Aims and Objectives

    • International trade and payments
    • The international economic environment

    Economics (Advanced Higher)

    Unit: Microeconomics

    • Perfect competition
    • Monopoly
    • Monopolistic competition
    • Oligopoly
    • Externalities
    • Government response to externalities

    Unit: Economic issues and policies

    • UK current economic issues
    • International policy issues

    Unit: Economic research

    • Planning
    • Information



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