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ACCA: Business and Technology

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Understand the role of accountants in ensuring businesses operate effectively, efficiently and ethically with this ACCA-X course.

Business and Technology
12 weeks
5–8 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
Cost to Enroll
$119 USD

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Starts Mar 19
Ends Aug 30

About this course

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Don't have a business background but want to understand how people and systems of an organisation interact with the world and each other? Work through this course and equip yourself with the knowledge you need to make sense of the external influences that affect the business in its environment, including economic, legal, social and technological factors.

Understanding a Business and its environment is important in shaping the role of key business functions. This carefully considered assessment of the business’s environment can contribute to the efficient, effective and ethical management and development of an organisation.

This course is especially beneficial if you want to:

  • Understand the purpose and types of businesses

  • Delve deeper into the structure and key functions of a business, including corporate governance

  • Launch your own business and need an understanding of leadership, management and people issues including motivation

  • Prepare for the ACCA’s exam in Business and Technology (BT). Please note this course and the exam was previously named ‘Accountant in Business’.

There is no prior knowledge required. Start learning today and accelerate your business and finance acumen.

To check availability of this course in your country please click here.

Course update:

To coincide with syllabus changes coming into effect from 20th September 2023 onwards, ACCA-X will be releasing a new version of this course on 28th August 2023. This new version will include technical content and question updates relevant to the 2023/2024 syllabus.

It is therefore important to ensure you enrol onto the correct version of the course. Detailed syllabus information is available within the course and can also be found here

This course does not offer an edX certificate.

Those learners who would like to earn an award will have the opportunity to register with ACCA as a student, take computer based exams and gain the ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business.

You can find your nearest ACCA exam centre on the ACCA website.

At a glance

  • Institution: ACCA
  • Subject: Business & Management
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Prerequisites:

    This course is suitable for you if you're just starting out in finance, or if you work in finance but do not yet have a professional qualification. Or, try out our free courses first.

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Associated skills:Association Of Chartered Certified Accountants, Accounting, Management Accounting, Leadership, Management, Finance

What you'll learn

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  • Types of businesses, their purposes, and their interactions with stakeholders and the external environment
  • Business organisational structure, functions and the role of corporate governance
  • The function of accountancy and audit
  • The principles of authority, leadership and team management
  • Personal effectiveness as the basis for effective team and organisational behaviour
  • Upholding professional ethics and professional values in business

Learner testimonials

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"The course helped me with the more analytical side of my job. It's allowed me to deal with situations at work I would have had a hard time solving before."
- Terry from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

"I especially liked the structured way of learning. It divides the full syllabus into small chunks that is very helpful for me to prepare for the exam. The audio visual learning it is very interesting and fun way of learning the key skills."
- Farhad from Bangladesh

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