Further Education and Training Certificate: New Venture Creation NQF 4

PURPOSE

A new venture creation qualification is a comprehensive educational programme that focuses on fostering entrepreneurship and equipping students or participants with the capabilities to initiate, develop, and successfully manage new business ventures. The programme encompasses a wide range of topics and skills, including business planning, innovation, marketing, financial management, and entrepreneurial leadership.

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1: Work Orientation ▼

Apply basic business ethics in a work environment
Behave in a professional manner in a business environment
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS in a workplace, and its effects on a business sub-sector, own organisation, and a specific workplace

Module 2: Communication ▼

Access and use information from texts
Maintain and adapt oral communication
Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes
Write for a defined context

Module 3: Mathematical Literacy ▼

Apply basic knowledge of statistics and probability to influence the use of data and procedures in order to investigate life-related problems
Demonstrate understanding of rational irrational numbers and number systems
Identify, describe, compare, classify, explore shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional shapes in different contexts
Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life
Work with a range of patterns and functions and solve problems

Module 4: Management of a New Venture ▼

Manage business operations
Administer contracts for a selected new venture

Module 5: Finances of a New Venture ▼

Determine financial requirements of a new venture
Identify the composition of a selected new venture’s industry/sector procurement systems
Manage finances for a new venture
Produce a business plan for a new venture
Prepare and process documents for financial and banking processes

Module 6: Marketing and Sales ▼