Advanced Certificate in Business Administration

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Demonstrate how a junior business manager can provide valuable insight into any organisation.
• Describe the various tasks associated with business management at various levels in an organisation.
• Describe the various roles of a junior manager in the business environment.
• Evaluate the vision of and leadership in an organisation.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Demonstrate how to apply basic principles of Business Law.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how Business Law affects business relationships and transactions within the scope of the administration of companies and other organisations.
• Describe the implications of the relevant legal principles for the business.
• Describe the sources of Business Law.
• Draw, carry out and terminate enforceable contracts using the general principles of contract law.
• Demonstrate and apply an understanding of ethics as an integral part of sound business practice.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:

• Demonstrate an understanding of economics, economies and the major flows in economics.
• Discuss the problem of scarcity.
• Describe and explain the relationship between demand, supply and prices.
• Demonstrate competence in consumer choice and the utility approach.
• Analyse relationships between production and costs, type of competition, economic growth and development.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics, resource implications, benefits and challenges of both file organisation methods and database management approaches to managing the information resource in organisations.
• Critically evaluate the core activities in the system development process.
• Describe alternative methods for building information systems giving advantages and disadvantages of each method.
• Define Infrastructure Technology and its component parts.
• Assess computer hardware and software trends.
• Evaluate the role of Internet Technology in facilitating the management and coordination of internal and inter-organisational business processes.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:

• Discuss the challenges of Human Resource Management.
• Evaluate job design, recruitment and selection, induction and compensation systems.
• Demonstrate competence in implementing various training and development techniques.
• Evaluate the processes required to assess the effectiveness of any given human resource strategy.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:

• Explain the principles of Marketing.
• Describe group, social and cultural influences affecting consumers.
• Identify, implement and manage marketing strategies and draw up plans to meet organisational requirements.
• Discuss consumer and buyer behaviour.
• Identify and discuss marketing instruments.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:

• Define the various revenue, cost and profit concepts.
• Prepare income statements, balance sheets and journals and draw up a cash budget for an organisation.
• Report on ledger accounts, trial balances, basic income statements and basic balance sheets.
• Calculate stock value and fixed asset value.
• Calculate the net income of an investment, the current liabilities, the owner's equity and disclose all this information in a balance sheet.

Integrated Assessment:

Integrated Assessment allows the assessor to make use of formative and summative assessment methods and assess combinations of practical, applied, foundational and reflective competencies. Integrated Assessment typically makes use of combinations of the following assessment methods:

• Coursework Evaluations.
• Continuous Evaluation.
• Practical Evaluation.
• Time-constrained written examinations.
• Work Integrated Learning assessment assists in assessing the various disciplines that comprise the curriculum of this qualification.