Overview

The objective of the MOZ EDUCATION Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Accountancy is to provide learners with a foundation for a career in a range of organisations in relation to financial management and accountancy. It is designed to ensure that each learner is equipped with knowledge of accountancy, and the skills to adapt rapidly to change and progress with their learning. Successful completion of the Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Accountancy provides learners with the opportunity to progress to further study or employment.

Entry requirements

MOZ EDUCATION Level 3 qualifications can be offered to learners from age 18. MOZ EDUCATION does not specify entry requirements for these qualifications. MOZ EDUCATION ensures that learners admitted to the programme have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment criteria.

MOZ EDUCATION Centre must ensure learners are recruited with integrity onto appropriate qualifications that will meet their needs, enable, and facilitate learning and achievement enable progression. The qualification is offered in English.

If a learner is not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English language competency by completing the English Language Test.

Equivalences

MOZ EDUCATION qualifications at RQF Level 3 represent practical knowledge, skills, capabilities, and competences that are assessed in academic terms as being equivalent to GCE AS/A Levels.

Qualification structure

The MOZ EDUCATION Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Accountancy consists of 3 mandatory units for a combined total of 60 credits, 600 hours Total Qualification Time (TQT) and 240 Guided Learning Hours (GLH) for the completed qualification.

Mandatory units

• Recording Financial Transactions (20 credits)
• Management Information (20 credits)
• Maintaining Financial Records (20 credits)

Duration and delivery

The qualification is designed to be delivered over 6 months for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance learning. The qualification is delivered online, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, distance, online by approved centres only.

Assessment and verification

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the centre and externally verified by MOZ EDUCATION. The qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes. All the assessments are graded as either pass or fail. To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria. Judgement that the learners have successfully fulfilled the assessment criteria is made by the Internal Quality Assessor. The Internal Quality Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the learners’ overall achievement has been arrived at.

Progressions

Successful completion of MOZ EDUCATION Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Accountancy provides learners the opportunity for academic progressions to a wide range of undergraduate programmes including Level 4 Diploma in Accounting and Business.