Entrepreneur & Management Level 4 and 5

You will be introduced to the key aspects of businesses and the way they operate in the context of the wider environment. You’ll also gain knowledge and understanding of key business functions and how they contribute to success.

Here, you will identify the various, often competing, perspectives of entrepreneurial management and how they support organisational change.

In this module, you’ll identify how to set important business goals and how to achieve these goals as part of ongoing planning.

This module introduces some of the tools used in management and their respective uses. You’ll also learn about analysing situations within an organisation; develop solutions to organisational problems; evaluate an organisation’s position in its operating and competitive environment; and develop elements of an effective organisational strategy.

Gain an understanding of finance, including an introduction to accounting and financial terminology.

This module aims to develop knowledge of marketing, the marketing planning process, and the role of internal as well as external marketing. From here, you will be able to understand the value of marketing activities within the organisation.

This module introduces the fundamentals of psychology and how they relate to the entrepreneurial side of business.

In this final Level 4 module, you’ll explore the role innovation and creativity both play for organisations. You’ll begin to understand and recognise the importance of both, and how to implement them as part of a strategy.

This module asks the question, what is an entrepreneur? You’ll also examine the skills and qualities entrepreneurs possess.

Here, you’ll learn why organisations are structured in a certain way and how that structure is determined. You’ll also explore numerous models and theories surrounding organisational structure.

This module introduces you to exercises to understand the information provided by accounts and the actions you can take as a result.

In this module, you’ll consider what your business is trying to achieve, what you’ll need to do to get there, and the need for clear goal-setting.

You’ll explore the impact of politics on business and how this helps or hinders business operations. You’ll also examine attributes such as economic impact, exports and what government support is available.

In this module, you’ll examine the statutory responsibilities of managers and the legal requirements of both businesses and those involved in running them.

This module focuses on governance and equality and the responsibilities businesses have to ‘do the right thing’ in the modern world.

Here, you’ll understand how people and businesses grow together. You’ll gain further knowledge of reward structures, CPD, training and development, and how these all contribute to high levels of performance.

Analyse how to bring markets, customers, competitors and products together into a cohesive plan that has clear targets and goals.

By completing this module, you’ll hone your knowledge of numeric exercises and will understand their use within the context of the business.