Subfield: Management
Level NQF6
Effectively and efficiently use all available resources in order to maximise the organisation`s survivability, growth (future expansion), profitability.
Demonstrate an understanding of the key role played by the chief executive officer in an organisation
Apply organisation development (OD) principles with a view to the long-term transformation of the organisation to improve its effectiveness and adaptability.
Establish the extent to which the organisation has met its goals and the identification of areas which have the potential for improvement .
Demonstrate an understanding that the basis of all management decision-making is the access to and the use of operational and strategic information.
Identify and discuss issues of significance which affect the majority of organisations in Southern Africa in the present and foreseeable future.
Subfield: Statistics
Level: NQF6
Collection and presentation of numerical information
Business calculations
Numerical measures of description
Probability
Sampling
Hypothesis testing
The chi-square test
Index numbers
Regression analysis
Time series analysis
Subfield: Marketing
Level: NQF6
Demonstrate an understanding of the strategic side of marketing management
Analyse marketing situations logically and effective
Formulate and evaluate alternative strategies to solve marketing problems
Select and implement the chosen alternatives
Prepare a marketing plan
Level: NQF6
Demonstrate an understanding of what constitutes promotion and its component parts
Demonstrate an understanding of how the consumer of goods, services, and ideas is exposed to and actively utilises communication from all elements of the marketing mix.
Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of market segmentation
Discuss the application of competitive positioning
Establish promotional objectives after due consideration of relevant factors.
Demonstrate an understanding of financial issues surrounding promotion.
Assess budgeting methods critically.
Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of the advertising campaign, and be able to outline them.
Develop a creative strategy.
Critically evaluate creative execution of advertisements.
Analyse the range of media resources available.
Demonstrate an awareness of cost factors when discussing the choice of media.
Be familiar with the elements that influence media strategy:
Demonstrate an understanding of media scheduling and be able to describe it by making use of suitable examples.
Understand and be able to describe the methods used to test the effectiveness of advertising.
Know how and when copy testing of advertisements is done,
Understand the use of test markets and studies done to test the effectiveness of advertising when tracking product movement.
Know the difference between push and pull techniques.
Describe push and pull techniques and know when to use them.
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of personal selling and sales management.
Demonstrate knowledge of advertising organisations.
Distinguish between internal and external public relations.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the economic, social and legal constraints of advertising
Level: NQF6
Identify the marketing problem from a given situation or scenario and to formulate the appropriate marketing research problem/opportunity.
Discuss the marketing research process and identify the various survey errors which can occur in each of these phases.
Discuss the role of the various related marketing and marketing research institutions in the marketing research environment.
Detect and evaluate the appropriate sources of secondary data to a marketing research problem/opportunity.
Apply the correct research procedure i.e. data collection method (e.g. telephone survey) and research design (e.g. exploratory-) to any possible marketing research situation or scenario.
Discuss the various errors affecting experimental results. Explain also the various experimental designs in marketing research.
Differentiate amongst the different types of sampling procedures and explain the various methods of sampling determination.
Critically evaluate a given questionnaire by recommending various improvements. Design an elementary questionnaire given a certain marketing scenario/objectives using the various types of questions e.g. Likert scale, Semantic differential scale.
Explain the process of data processing.
Interpret a set of given data.
Discuss the basic conditions applicable when it comes to communicating the results
Subfield: Public Relations
Level: NQF6
Relate relevant aspects of the way a particular society is structured, as well as how it functions, to a case study.
Demonstrate the ability to appropriately use various media of mass communication in the execution of a particular public relations plan.
Demonstrate an understanding that corporate advertising may be effectively employed as part of an overall public relations plan.
Subfield: Human Resources Management
Level: NQF6
Apply, discuss, compare and relate the strategic role of the human resources function as an integral, essential organisational input and contributor to overall effectiveness and efficiency.
Demonstrate an understanding of the essential need for organisational leadership and management
Demonstrate, combine and relate the interdependence of the development and labour relations functions with human resources management.
Analyse the critical managerial responsibility of managing performance.
Examine the role of HR in the process of performance management.
Analyse and discuss the necessity for and impact of change from both external and internal sources, nationally, regionally and internationally, on the nature of work; globalisation; the environment; the organisation; technology; management; the individual; motivation and performance.
Demonstrate an understanding of the interface between the employee and the organisation.
Level: NQF6
Explain the meaning and nature of Organisational Behaviour.
Provide an introduction to a behavioral approach to management.
Be aware of the complex nature of the individual in work organisations.
Explain main influences on behaviour in work organisations and the nature of behavioural science.
Outline the individual`s contribution to the organisation and the factors affecting behaviour and performance.
Investigate personalities and human behaviours and compare attitudes.
Analyse perception
Explain the learning process
Use problem solving techniques
Demonstrate the need for better job designs
Explain intrinsic and extrinsic job factors
Define job satisfaction and discuss the importance thereof
Analyse the concept of participative management
Discuss stress and the desire to succeed
Identify sources of stress in the work environment.
Analyse motivation and the effects on the employee in the organisation.
Determine goal setting
Identify reinforcements
Analyse the relationship between money motivation
Identify the relationship process and compare the relationship between directing and leading
Demonstrate an understanding of the role of communication in the working environment
Explain the meaning and nature of groups.
Define small groups and demonstrate and understanding of the nature of intergroup behaviour.
Analyse the diverse factors that arise as a result of organisational change and to investigate the principles of organisational development.
Linking management theory to practice
Demonstrate an understanding of ethical issues
Subfield: Labour Relations
Level: NQF5
Demonstrate an understanding of the background and development of industrial relations in South Africa
Demonstrate an understanding of the legislative framework governing the employment relationship in South Africa
Provide definitions of labour relations terms
Demonstrate a general understanding and application of grievances procedures and disciplinary codes
Identify key role players in the labour relations arena in South Africa
Level: NQF5
Demonstrate an understanding the interaction and processes within the labour relationship
Demonstrate an understanding of factors regulating the interaction of labour relationships
Demonstrate an understanding of external influences on the labour relationship
Demonstrate an understanding of different approaches to the labour relationship
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the labour relations systems of countries outside South Africa
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of labour economics
Demonstrate an understanding of the general principles and practices of collective bargaining
Demonstrate an understanding of the practice of collective bargaining in South Africa
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles and practice of negotiation
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles and practice of dispute settlement
Level: NQF6
Demonstrate an understanding of collectivities in the South African economy
Demonstrate an understanding of organisational rights.
Demonstrate an understanding of labour legislation relating to strikes and lockouts
Demonstrate an understanding of the constitution and operation of workplace forums
Demonstrate an understanding of dispute resolution
Demonstrate an understanding of policies and procedures
Demonstrate an understanding of the principles and practices of industrial democracy
Subfield: Cost and Management Accounting
Level: NQF5
Demonstrate the ability to allocate and apportion overheads to calculate rates of recovery.
Use these rates to calculate recoveries, and know how to treat under- or over-recoveries.
Demonstrate the ability to prepare budgets resulting in the budgeted income statement and balance sheet
Demonstrate the ability to flex a budget
Evaluate the necessary capital budgets.
Identify revenue and cost curves and demonstrate ability to highlight marginal revenues and costs.
Compute prices using cost plus or other strategies.
Produce a cash flow statement from information available.
Identify the components of working capital and determine strengths and weaknesses in policy, which they could use to prepare a new policy.
List the types of capital and costs of debt
Demonstrate the ability to calculate marginal cost of capital
Discuss the effects of financial leverage.
Explain the different forms of finance available and to choose optimum components.
Level: NQF6
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of process costing.
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of standard costing.
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of transfer pricing.
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of linear programming.
Demonstrate the ability to make decisions
Use cost data in decision-making.
Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of activity costing.
Subfield: Financial Accounting
Level: NQF5
Demonstrate an understanding of the framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements
Demonstrate the ability to prepare partnership accounts
Describe the steps in the formation of juristic persons
Prepare financial statements of close corporations and companies for management and publication in compliance with the statutory requirements
Level: NQF6
Demonstrate an understanding of the conceptual framework of accounting
Account for investments
Prepare advanced financial statements, including cash flow statements
Prepare group financial statements:
Account for acquisitions, mergers, amalgamation and reconstructions
Demonstrate knowledge of transactions of a special nature.
Account for instalment (credit agreement) transactions (including allocation of profit and treatment of deferred taxation).
Carry out accounting transactions under conditions of changing prices
Analyse and interpret financial statements
Demonstrate that they are keeping abreast of current developments in accounting and reporting
Subfield: Administrative Practice
Level: NQF6
Form and administer a close corporation
Form and administer companies
Level: NQF6
Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the Companies Act, the Close Corporations Act and the Insider Trading Act
Apply knowledge of relevant legislation to practical situations in the formation and management of corporate bodies
Provide suitable advice to corporate bodies about legislative issues affecting their operation
Subfield: Income Tax
Level: NQF6
Demonstrate a clear and in-depth understanding of the law governing Taxation in South Africa.
Determine the normal tax payable by a tax payer
Demonstrate an understanding of the procedure for preparing tax computations and lodging tax returns, taking into account the requirements of the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service.
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the principles of fringe benefit tax
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the principles of the taxation of benefits on retirement, death and resignation
Subfield: Internal Auditing
Level: NQF6
Probe into the activities of the undertaking on which the transaction records are based, and into the controls over these activities and records.
Carry out an assessment of the risk of error, on which the decision regarding the type and amount of audit checks required rests.
Demonstrate an understanding of the general principles of sampling.
Demonstrate an understanding of the specific reporting responsibilities of the internal auditor, mainly on information other than financial statements, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices.
Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of information processing as well as the controls and security techniques required within the IS facility.
Identify the unique areas of concern in computerised systems
Translate these concerns into clearly defined objectives of internal control
Identify the various techniques, which can be instituted to ensure that the objectives of internal control are met.
Integrated assessment appropriately incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the qualifications is achieved
Assessment is conducted in several ways:
Self-assessment which is carried out by the learners on a daily basis, and which improves the quality of learning and mastery;
Formative assessment by means of contact tuition during the course of their studies
Continuous assessment incorporating assignments.
Summative assessment by way of examinations at six monthly intervals
The above provides for a holistic approach to assessment. |
