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

Corporate Information Systems

The Unit introduces you to the use of information systems in the management of all types of organisations. The assessment for this unit is made up of five tasks. In each of these tasks you must attain 70% of the available marks to achieve this Unit. The tasks cover the following:

• the explanation of systems theory and how it is used to meet corporate organisational objectives and the description of the nature and value of information
• the security implications of and responsibilities for maintaining management information systems and storing information
• a presentation, using an appropriate software package(s), which explains the implications of current developments in management information systems
• the first three stages of the information systems development life cycle
• the final four stages of the information systems development life cycle

Three of the assessments will be under Closed-book examination conditions and two assessments will be under Open-book conditions.