BTEC HND in Business Human Resources
Specialist Units for Business Accounting
Unit 9: Management Accounting: Costing and Budgeting
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Be able to analyse cost information within a business
- Be able to propose methods to reduce costs and enhance value within a business
- Be able to prepare forecasts and budgets for a business
- Be able to monitor performance against budgets within a business.
Unit 10: Financial Accounting and Reporting
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the regulatory framework for financial reporting
- Be able to prepare financial statements from complete or incomplete records
- Be able to present financial information in accepted formats for publication
- Be able to interpret financial statements.
Unit 11: Financial Systems and Auditing
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the importance of keeping effective accounting systems within a business
- Be able to analyse the management control systems of a business
- Be able to contribute to the planning and conduct of an audit assignment
- Be able to prepare audit reports.
Unit 12: Taxation
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the duties and responsibilities of the tax practitioner in the UK tax environment
- Be able to calculate personal tax liabilities for individuals and partnerships
- Be able to calculate corporation tax liabilities for companies
- Be able to calculate capital gains tax payable for individuals and businesses.
Unit 13: Personal and Professional Development
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development
- Be able to take responsibility for own personal and professional development
- Be able to implement and continually review own personal and professional development plan
- Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills.
Unit 16: Managing Communications, Knowledge and Information
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand how to assess information and knowledge needs
- Be able to create strategies to increase personal networking to widen involvement in the decision-making process
- Be able to develop communication processes
- Be able to improve systems relating to information and knowledge.
Unit 45: Business Ethics
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand different ethical perspectives in business
- Understand business objectives from an ethical perspective
- Understand ethics in workplace relationships
- Be able to assess a current ethical issue in a business.
Unit 39: Financial Investment Opportunities
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the range of investments available to individuals
- Understand how the UK system of taxation affects investment decisions
- Understand investors’ needs
- Understand the working of the stock exchange and the range of investments available.

