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Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2011/12


AS20127: Business and professional practice

Click here for further information Credits: 5
Click here for further information Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Click here for further information Period: Academic Year at Wiltshire College
Click here for further information Assessment: OT 100%
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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Click here for further information Description: Aims:
The aim of this unit is to introduce students to the legal requirements and day-to-day needs of modern business, with particular emphasis on the needs of the self-employed worker.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this module the student should have a basic understanding of the requirements of being self-employed, and be able to describe the various professions supporting SMEs.

Skills:
The basic intellectual and practical skills to become self-employed.

Content:
The Nature of Business: e.g. sole trader, self employed, employed, partnerships, limited liability companies, public limited liability companies.
Legal Aspects: e.g. Income tax, National Insurance, for PAYE and for the self employed, public liability insurance, business names, tax allowances.
Professional Advisers: e.g. solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers, the role of banks.
Pensions; e.g. aspects of planning for the future.
Premises: e.g. working from home, planning permission, buying and leasing property.
Purchasing Equipment: e.g. capital expenditure, leasing, renting.
Employing others: e.g. health and safety, income tax, national insurance, job descriptions, equal opportunities legislation.
Financial Records: e.g. VAT, income, expenditure, accounting periods, bookkeeping, Income tax.
Marketing: e.g. to potential employers, to clients.
'The Business Plan': e.g. its role in helping the self employed person access other services.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:

AS20127 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Learning Partnerships
  • UDAS-WFF02 : FdA Digital Media Arts (Full-time at Wiltshire College) - Year 2

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