This combined Level 5 qualification is designed to enable learners to acquire and deepen both their technical understanding of specific areas of business and their understanding of key management skills. Whilst Level 4 learning introduces the learner to higher level knowledge and skills, providing access to supervisory and junior managerial business roles, Level 5 learning strengthens and develops existing technical and managerial understanding, setting up the learner for broader managerial roles and introducing more senior management issues and themes, to be developed at Level 6.
The qualification is worth 240 credits and is graded Pass, Merit and Distinction.

Mandatory units (15 credits each)
• The Business Environment
• People in Organisations
• Financial and Management Accounting Techniques for Managers
• Communication Skills for Business
• Business Organisations in a Global Context
• People Management
• Finance for Managers
• Research Project

Optional units (15 credits each) include The Marketing Mix, Entrepreneurship, Managing Operations, Managing Quality, Marketing Principles and Practice, Business Law, Business Ethics, Digital Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility and Customer Relationship Management.