PEARSON EDEXCEL BTEC LEVEL 5 HND DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS (MANAGEMENT) Central Area, Central

Course details

utorial: 1:10
Lecture: 1:25
Course Intake: Available intakes in year 2014:

Intake No
Course ID
Course Commencement date
Course End date
1
BTECHND(B)/2014/01
13/02/2014
12/08/2015
2
BTECHND(B)/2014/02
14/04/2014
13/10/2015
3
BTECHND(B)/2014/03
16/06/2014
15/12/2015
4
BTECHND(B)/2014/04
11/08/2014
10/02/2016
5
BTECHND(B)/2014/05
13/10/2014
12/04/2016
6
BTECHND(B)/2014/06
15/12/2014
14/06/2016
Note: Application closes 1 month before the course commencement date for international students and 1 week for local students.

Module :

Module 1: Business Environment

Businesses operate in an environment shaped by the government, competitors, consumers, suppliers and international factors. On completion of the module, the students will understand the organizational purpose of businesses; understand the nature of the national environment in which businesses operate; understand the behavior of organizations in their market environment; be able to assess the significance of the global factors that shape national business activities.

Module 2: Managing Financial Resources and Decisions

On completion of this unit a learner will be able to understand the sources of finance available to a business, realize the implications of finance as a resource within a business, be able to make financial decisions based on financial information and evaluate the financial performance of a business.

Module 3: Organisations and Behaviour

Students at the end of this unit will understand the relationship between organizational structure and culture, apply different approaches to management and leadership, comprehend ways of using motivational theories in organizations and develop mechanisms for effective teamwork in organizations.

Module 4: Marketing Principles

This unit aims to provide learners with understanding and skills relating to the fundamental concepts and principles that underpin the marketing process. Students understand the concept and process of marketing, be able to use the concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning, familiarize themselves with the individual elements of the extended marketing mix and gain the ability to use the marketing mix in different contexts.

Module 5: Aspects of Contract and Negligence for Business

The unit introduces the law of contract, with particular emphasis on the formation and operation of business contracts. At the end of this module the students will be able to understand the essential elements of a valid contract in a business context, apply the elements of a contract in business situations, learn the principles of liability in negligence in business activities and relate to the principles of liability in negligence in business situations.

Module 6: Business Decision Making

The aim of this unit is to give learners the opportunity to develop techniques for data gathering and storage, gain an understanding of the tools available to create and present useful information, in order to make business decisions. On completion of this module a learner will be able to use a variety of sources for the collection of data, both primary and secondary, understand a range of techniques to analyze data effectively for business purposes, be able to produce information in appropriate formats for decision making in an organisational context and effectively use software-generated information to make decisions in an organisation.

Module 7: Business Strategy

This module seeks to equip the students with an understanding of the process of strategic planning, enable them to formulate a new strategy, comprehend approaches to strategy evaluation and selection and learn to implement a chosen strategy.

Module 8: Research Project

On completing this module students will be able to formulate a research specification, implement the research project within agreed procedures and specification, evaluate the research outcomes and present the research outcomes.

Module 9: Personal and Professional Development

This module is designed to enable students' to analyze cost information within a business, propose methods to reduce costs and enhance value within a business, prepare forecasts and budgets for a business and monitor performance against budgets within a business.

Module 10: Working with and Leading People

In this unit learners will prepare financial statements for different types of business, complying with relevant legal and regulatory provisions and the basic principles of group accounts. Learners will also develop tools for the interpretation of financial statements.

Module 11: Managing Business Activities to Achieve Results

On successful completion of this module learners will be able to understand the importance of keeping effective accounting systems within a business, analyze the management control systems of a business, contribute to the planning and conduct of an audit assignment, prepare audit reports.

Module 12: Managing Communications, Knowledge and Information

This unit recognises that communications do not automatically take place effectively in organisations and that both information and work-based knowledge is often insufficient when decisions are made.

Module 13: E-Business Operations

This area of study is subject to rapid rates of change with an immense array of continually developing Technology converging and impacting on how e-businesses operate. The unit considers the difference in transactions between business and consumers (b2c) and business to business (b2b), which is necessary in order to understand required operations.

Module 14: Quality Management in Business

Quality control is concerned with maintaining quality standards by monitoring and taking action when quality falls below those standards. Quality assurance is a term used where a supplier guarantees the quality of goods and allows the customer access during the production period. Customer satisfaction is at the heart of quality management, but this, in itself, implies a different concept of quality. Quality has been defined as 'fitness for purpose' but needs to be aimed at the needs of the consumer, driven by what the consumer wants and will pay for.

Module 15: Operations Management in Business

Operations management is the area of business activity concerned with the production of goods and services. It includes the responsibility of ensuring that all business/organisational operations are efficient in terms of minimizing costs by using as few resources as possible, and effective in terms of maximizing quality and meeting customer requirements.

Module 16: Project Design, Implementation and Evaluation

This unit provides opportunities to develop skills in decision making, problem solving and communication integrated with the skills and knowledge developed in many of the other units within the programme to complete a realistic project. It requires the learner to select, plan, implement and evaluate a project and finally present the outcomes, in terms of the process and the product of the project. It also allows learners to develop the ability to work individually and/or with others, within a defined timescale and given constraints, to produce an acceptable and viable solution to an agreed brief.

Minimum Age
18

Academic Level
Pass in any 3 GCE 'O' level or its equivalent

Language Proficiency
IELTS 5.5 or its equivalent

Edexcel BTEC Level 5 HND in Business (Management) is fully assignment based assessment.
Students will be awarded with Edexcel BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Business(Management) from Edexcel Ltd,UK upon meeting the following criteria:
1.Successfully completed and passed all 32 assignments
2.Attained the attendance of 90%(International Students) or 75% (local students)
Bradford-Rex will provide with certificate of attendance for those who have not passed all 32 assignments.