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Business Planning

The Business Planing course is designed for people who wish to gain an understanding of principles and practice of Business Planning.

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Level 2 / Quality Licence Scheme / SH204

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£346.00

£18.00 /month

over 12 months and £130.00 deposit

£346.00

£18.00 /month

over 12 months and £130.00 deposit

Course summary

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Course introduction

Our Business Planning course has been deigned to provide students with a greater understanding of the different aspects related to effective planning. Upon successful completion of this programme, students will have the ability to describe and evaluate your business idea, produce a business plan, investigate how to conduct effective market research, and market your product or service. Not only this, you can expect to learn about the financial information required to run a business such as budgeting, profit and loss, and cash flow just to name a few. Learners will develop their ability to identify sources of funding, and instigate relevant business controls. Our aim is to provide you with the best possible deal available, therefore the registration fee, certification fee and full tutor support is included in the course price for you. 

Our Business Planning course has been deigned to provide students with a greater understanding of the different aspects related to effective planning. 

Upon successful completion of this programme, students will have the ability to describe and evaluate your business idea, produce a business plan, learn how to conduct effective market research, and market your product or service. Not only this, you can expect to learn about the financial information required to run a business such as budgeting, profit and loss, and cash flow just to name a few. Learners will develop their ability to identify sources of funding, and instigate relevant business controls. 

Our aim is to provide you with the best possible deal available, therefore the registration fee, certification fee and full tutor support is included in the course price for you. 

Required knowledge

No previous knowledge is required to complete this course.

Assessment

The Quality Licence Scheme course is gained by successfully completing a series of assignments. Your personal tutor will review, mark and provide you with feedback on your work.

 

Certification

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme.The Provider has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained.

The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at QLS Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group’s knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales.

Course modules

Module 1: Planning to succeed
Personal profiling & self-assessment
Evaluating your business idea
Writing a business plan
Business structures
Basic accounting requirements

Module 2: Market Research
Types of Research
Survey methods
Questionnaires
Secondary research
Market research analysis

Module 3: Effective Marketing
The marketing cycle
Marketing plans
The cost per sale formula
Target customers
Business generation
The Marketing mix
Product life cycles

Module 4: Finance
Financial planning & control
A personal survival budget
Start up budget
The meaning of profit
Direct and fixed costs
Break even analysis
Costing & pricing
Sales forecasting and adjustments
Cash flow forecasting
Profit & loss forecasting
Capital requirements

Learner support

You will receive the course manual, assignments and study guide plus tutor support by mail and email.

Our student support team are also available for any other queries that you may have whilst completing your course. You can be assured that unlimited support is available for your home study course, so there is no need to struggle or feel isolated during your studies.

This course is supplied and delivered by our partner organisation - Kendal Publishing.

FAQs

What does NCC stand for?

NCC originally stood for the National Consortium of FE (Further Education) Colleges. This brought together the FE Colleges to achieve the best provision. Regular national meetings were attended by both Colleges and Government agencies who funded them. This was very helpful to them both to best deliver training to their students.

For more than 25 years NCC has supplied FE Colleges with learning materials as well as student marketing.

NCC now specialise in online training of a very high quality to students both self-funded, paid for by schools, employers and training providers.

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