Level 2 Qualifications - Finance

Please refer to EN's Entry Requirements Guide for specific advice on our Admissions Policy. This guide is supplied at interview to prospective students and is also available to Schools & Careers Advisers.

This course is designed to help you manage and understand finances. You will learn about the various sources of money including earned income with tax and National Insurance calculations, inheritance benefits and borrowing.

You will also learn how to organise your money through personal budgeting, the use of bank and building society accounts and the concept and consequences of overspending.

You will look at the qualifications and opportunities in the banking/financial sectors in terms of employment.

There are three units in total for the full qualification:

- Your personal finances

- Money management for your generation

- Your future, your career

Exam - 100%

Level 1 - Usually an E/F/G GCSE profile.

Level 2 - Low grade GCSE performance or evidence of academic potential. Completion of the Level 1 LiFE Certificate.

Assessment

Three online exams, multiple choice answers, all building to a final grade, either a level 1 certificate or a level 2 certificate.

Upon successful completion of the course there is the opportunity to progress to the Level 3 Certificate in Financial Studies. This is an AS equivalent course with UCAS points and can be extended to the A2 equivalent Diploma in Financial Studies.

If further study is not your plan then the course will also stand you in good stead for work as you will be equipped with the tools to manage your money and check your pay.