- Exam(s) / assessment(s) is included in price
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Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Accredited Course
Online Course plus Final Assessment Included and Certificate
Oplex Careers
Summary
Overview
The online Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course from Oplex Careers aims to provide a further insight into the skills and knowledge related to key principles within business studies such as organisational growth, structures and more.
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Description
Course Description
The online Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course will provide learners with a further and deeper understanding into business studies, exploring and more. This course will discuss the key principles related to business studies discussing business cycles, organisational growth and more. This course will provide a great insight into your role with the use of practical examples throughout the course. Whether you are familiar with key principles already, you want to get started working in a field where this knowledge is important, looking for more training, or just interested in this field of study, this course will cover a range of modules and provide multiple examples for assessment.
Course Syllabus
The Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course is split into the following modules:
- Understanding Business Cycles
– Growth and organisational life cycle
– Launch
– Growth
– Shakeout
– Maturity
– Decline
– Types of organisational growth
– Internal business growth
– Strategic business growth
– Organic growth
- Business Growth
– Methods to achieve organisational growth
– Joint venture/alliance
– Licensing
– Sell off old winners
– New markets
– Organisational scale
– Economies scale
– Types of economies scale
– Internal and external economies scale
– Globalisation and multinational organisations
– Impact of globalisation
– Disadvantages of globalisation
- Business Production Systems
– Production system
– Physical flow of materials
– Flow of information
– Types of production system
– Production function
– Fixed proportion production function
– Variable proportion production function
- Production Systems and Functions
– Roles of the production function
– Production planning and scheduling
– Inventory control
– Stages of production
– Stage 1, 2 and 3
- Marketing and Business
– Marketing concepts
– Production concept
– Sales concept
– Marketing concept
– Marketing process
– Strategy formulation
– Planning
- Marketing Concepts.
– Nature of marketing
– Customer oriented
– Delivery value
– Network of relationship
– Business
– Dynamic
– Segmentation
– Targeting
– Positioning
- Business Finance
– Types of finance
– Business, direct, indirect, public, private, corporation
– Objectives of finance function
– Scope of financial function
- Accounting
– Branches of accounting
– Financial accounting
– Cost accounting
– Management accounting
– Elements of accounting system
– Payroll
– Accounts payable
– Foxed assets
– Inventory control
- Human Resources
– Nature of human resource management
– Scope of human resource management
– Human resource function
– Managerial functions
– Operative functions
- Recruitment and HR
– Job description
– Personal specification
– Recruitment and selection process
– Need for human resource management
– New recruitment
– Job safety
– Training and development
- Final Assessment
Assessment
To assess the learners ability and knowledge to effectively understand the topics contained within the Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course, the course features a number of end of module interactive quiz questions.
Additionally, at the end of the course learners will also take an online multiple choice assessment test. This online multiple choice test is marked automatically so you will receive an instant grade and know whether you have passed the course.
Certificate
On successful completion of this Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course. This certificate will be produced in PDF format, hard copies of the certificate will be available at an additional fee of £9.99.
Course Format
This course is delivered online through eLearning. Learners of the course will receive instant access to our interactive student learning portal, which offers 24/7 access to the Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course.
Course Duration
The online Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course requires 20 hours to complete the course in full. This is only a guide to the learning hours required and it depends on how quickly an individual can absorb the information. The learning is online so it can be spread out over multiple sessions or done in one session.
Learners will have access to this course for up to 12 months from the date of joining. There is no time limit to complete the course during this period.
Tutor Support
When you are studying a course it is always useful to know that you have the help and support of tutors that want you to succeed in your studies.
As part of the Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course you will receive access to our dedicated tutor support service. The academic tutors will be able to provide you with unlimited online email support to help answer any questions that you may have whilst you are studying the course.
Course Compatibility
Our Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course is fully compatible with PC’s, Mac’s, Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone devices.
We know that more and more people are using the web whilst they are on the move, so we have designed this Business Studies Advanced Level 4 Course to be fully compatible across tablet and smartphone devices. You will be able to access the same content from the course, just over a 3G or 4G network whilst on the move.
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