| Course Description |
a valuable training concept for your personnel being necessary for any development and enhancement internal program simply because it is standardized, EU guaranteed, practice-oriented and IMC funded. Here below is a brief of the EBC*L (European Business Competence Licnece):
The Definition
With the educational objectives as well as with the exam, a problem solving-oriented approach will be strongly followed. Each single educational objective is checked on its practical relevance.
Level A
EBC*L level A (Core Knowledge) provides the practice-oriented and realizable business competence which is really necessary for all persons in their daily practice. In the logical hierarchical process of self-contained learning, level A is applied as the innermost core of the curricular concept.
Level B
EBC*L Level B (Planning Knowledge) is the medium extended layer of competences for economic thinking and acting, which is used and needed in business organizations. This level comprises necessary knowledge for the realization of strategies to meet corporate objectives and to take the appropriate measures– under the condition of keeping operating efficiency permanently in mind.
Level C
Based on the knowledge of EBC*L level A (Core Knowledge) and EBC*L level B (Planning Knowledge), the competence which is really necessary for the executive manager in his daily profession can be acquired in very little time. The goal is the acquisition of elementary leadership competence, which is applied in practice independent of a leading position (hierarchy level).
The Training
The Training materials are prepared in a way that makes them easy to understand for everyone.
In the training, the appropriate knowledge is shortly repeated, applied, deepened and edited with social forms of learning according to RUDI-Principle. This modern education concept ensures highest learning efficiency (=maximum learning effect in shortest possible time). The whole learning time lasts 180 hours.
The Training is for 12 days for each level. Therefore the downtime is very little for all trainees concerned as well as for the companies.
The Cost
The cost of training as well as the exam and EBC*L certificate is very reasonable compared with other accountants, key persons and executive managers’ trainings.
USP
The learning targets catalogue is developed in close collaboration with the companies and focuses very close on those leadership tools and competences, which are really necessary in practice.
The definite learning catalogue provides participants and companies with a comprehensive knowledge of what they have to expect. The trainers also have a frame they can and have to take orientation at. In case several trainers conduct the training, overlappings and parallel courses are avoided.
The internationally consistent standard (learning target catalogue and exam) ensures a transnational homogeneous quality of the educational level. This is especially an invaluable advantage for companies operating on the international stage.
The training is conducted in accordance with the most advanced training methods. Frontal lectures are reduced to a minimum.
In a nutshell, the EBC*L certificate offers a state-of-the-art, most effective and meaningful accountants. key persons executive managers education.
The Contents Structure
Level A
The contents are roughly divided into the following fields:
- Business objectives and financial ratios
- Accounting
- Costing and pricing
- Business law
Objectives:
- Being able to analyze and gauge the return on equity in the given context.
- Being able to define and explain the term "liquid funds" and identify them correctly in the annual financial statements.
- Being able to state the desirable minimum quick ratio and substantiate your result.
- Being able to explain the principal factors that influence the creditworthiness (credit rating) of the company.
- Being able to understand the basic structure of annual financial statements (balance sheet, profit and loss account) and draw initial conclusions.
- Being able to explain the most relevant terms found in annual financial statement
- Being able to explain why a balance sheet needs to be "balanced" (total assets must be equal to total equity and liabilities).
- Being able to explain the objectives and basic structure of cost centre accounting and profit centre accounting and giving reasons why cost awareness and entrepreneurial thinking are necessary.
- Being able to explain the characteristics of the principal legal forms of business organization.
- Being able to explain the basics of insolvency and bankruptcy law.
Level B
The contents are roughly divided into the following fields:
- Business Plan
- Marketing and Sales
- Financial Planning
- Investment Analysis
Objectives:
- Being able to explain analytical and planning instruments of business management and give examples of how they are applied.
- Being able to explain the goals, contents and structure of a business plan
- Being able to explain the basic conditions marketing activities depend on (customers, competition, costs)
- Being able to explain the most significant basic rules for success in selling projects, products and services.
- Being able to explain the objectives, the structure and the instruments of financial planning or budgeting
- Being able to explain the objectives and the layout of the budgeted profit and loss account, the budgeted balance sheet and the liquidity plan.
- Being able to explain the objectives of investment analysis and draw up concrete analyses.
- Being able to explain the limitations of investment analysis
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Level C
The contents are roughly divided into the following fields:
- Management of organizations, processes and finance
- Personnel Management
- Leadership
Management is defined as the objectively and rationally orientated components of leadership: planning, structuring, design, organization and control.
Leadership is defined as the social-psychological and emotional components of leadership: focus here is the human-being with his/her needs, desires and fears.
The term”Leadership” is used here to indicate that the subject deals with people, which are entrusted to executive managers, and not with an abstract concept of staff or human resources.
The Exam
The exam is structured based on the EBC*L principle, with skill questions, comprehension questions and case studies (and takes 2/ 3 hours).
Level A
- Duration: 2 hours
- 16 skill questions (4 points per question; total points= 64)
- 4 comprehension questions ( 6 points per question; total points= 24)
- 1 case study (points= 12)
- Maximum points: 100
- Minimum points (75%): 75
Level B
Level B Exam consists of 2 parts. The two parts have the same specification.
Specification of the part:
- Duration: 1,30 hours
- 12 skill questions (4 points per question; total points= 48)
- 3 comprehension questions ( 6 points per question; total points= 18)
- Case study (14 points)
- Maximum points: 80
- Minimum points (75%): 60
Level C
- Duration: 3 hours
- 24 skill questions (4 points per question; total points= 96)
- 6 comprehension questions ( 6 points per question; total points= 36)
- 2 case studies (16 points per case study; total points= 32)
- Maximum points: 160
- Minimum points (75%): 120
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