HNC/HND Business

Table of Contents

1. Business Accounting
2. Economic Issues: An Introduction
3. Marketing: An Introduction
4. Managing People and Organisations
5. Using Software Applications Packages
6. Information Technology Applications Software
7. Analysing and Presenting Complex Communication
8. Business Culture and Strategy
9. Business: Graded Unit 1
10. Business Law: An Introduction
11. Economics 1
12. Economics 2
13. Preparing Financial Forecasts
14. Information and Communication Technology in Business
15. Behavioural Skills for Business
16. Statistics for Business
17. Business: Graded Unit 2
18. Business: Graded Unit 3
19. Business Contractual Relationships
20. Publishing on the Internet
21. eCommerce: Introduction
22. eCommerce: Systems
23. Corporate Information Systems

Business: Graded Unit 2

This unit involves carrying out a project. The project undertaken by the candidate must be a complex task which involves:

• variables which are complex or unfamiliar
• relationships which need to be clarified
• a context which may be familiar or unfamiliar to the candidate

The assessment task must require the candidate to:

• analyse the task and decide on a course of action for undertaking the project
• plan and organise work and carry it though to completion
• reflect on what has been done and draw conclusions for the future
• produce evidence of meeting the aims which this Graded Unit has been designed to cover

The project must involve the investigation of a business issue and the assessment of its implications for a business or a number of businesses. The candidate can choose the issue to be investigated but it should be one which can be directly related to topics, concepts or models studied as part of the HND Business. However, the issue investigated must relate to the way in which the business or businesses meets the needs of its customers.

The term 'business' refers to any organisation operating in the private, public or voluntary sector of the economy. 'Customers' refers to any internal or external customer of the organisation or to a number of such customers.