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LEARN TO BE A GOOD MANAGER BY UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS
- After enrolling, watch our "orientation video" and discover how to use all sorts of services to support your study.
- Lots of flexibility is where and how often you study -even what your learning is focussed on
- Exams are optional and only needed if you want to use this study as a credit in a formal qualification -even then, we always give you the option to repeat exams
- Exceptional tutor support -Our horticulture faculty includes a dozen university trained professionals most with decades of industry experience. You have unlimited access to tutors over the phone or email.
COURSE STRUCTURE
There are 8 lessons :
- Establishment Procedures – aims to teach the student how to select appropriate procedures for the establishment of a small business
- Management Procedures – teaches the student how to select appropriate procedures for the management of a small business
- Communication in Business – how to develop procedures for communicating with suppliers and customers of a small business
- Problem Solving – how to develop procedures for addressing problems in a small business
- Staff Management – looks at how to plan the management of staff in a small business
- Productivity – learn how to develop strategies for managing production in a small business or department within a larger organisation.
- Financial Management – how to carry out different financial management tasks used in small business or department within a larger organisation
- Marketing Techniques – Evaluation of marketing techniques used in business
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
AIMS
- Select appropriate procedures for the establishment of a small business.
- Select appropriate procedures for the management of a small business.
- Develop procedures for communicating with suppliers and customers of a small business.
- Develop procedures for addressing problems in a small business.
- Plan the management of staff in a small business.
- Develop strategies for managing production in a small business or department within a larger organisation.
- Perform different financial management tasks used in small business or department within a larger organisation.
- Evaluate marketing techniques used in business.
WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
Here are just some of the things you will be doing:
- Find out what pay & conditions must be supplied for a list jobs.
- Find out about how to register a business name in your state, including procedures and costs.
- Find out the procedure for establishing a company.
- List the legal requirements for the establishment of one of a list of businesses.
- What are the legal rights and obligations of both the customer and the supplier in a legal contract?
- Visit an office in a workplace, and observe the layout of that office, and the way in which the layout affects work performance.
- Draw a sketch plan of an office, showing the arrangement of people, furniture and equipment.
- Contact either (or both) the Standards Association in your country and/or an appropriate government department to find out more about Quality Assurance.
- Compile a resource collection of information on office equipment.
- Interview someone who works in a business involved in selling.
- Investigate three different workplaces, in order to evaluate problems in small businesses.
- Investigate two different small business workplaces, making observations and speaking with some staff,
- Investigate the role of unions within a workplace.
- Contact at least one workplace where enterprise bargaining has been used to establish working conditions for staff.
- Investigate productivity in two different small business workplaces, from the same industry, and which provide the same or similar services or products.
- Investigate changing conditions in the business environment that may affect production or objectives of business.
- Investigate and prepare a management report on a business.
- Investigate investment opportunities with an investment counsellor.
- Investigate an established business. Consider how a product is marketed by this business in three different ways.
Duration: 100 hours
More Information on ACS Distance Education and our courses
What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.
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What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.
