A4 / Foundations
Digital Skills for Your Business
8 weeks · 30 contact hours
To move a trader, cooperative member or small business owner from memory-based trading to recorded trading. The commercial argument made throughout is access to credit: a business with twelve months of records is financeable, and one without them is not.
What you’ll learn.
4 modules · 30 contact hours
01Records that work8 hrs
- Why records change what a business can do.
- Building a stock list.
- Keeping a sales log.
- Moving the log into a spreadsheet.
02Money tracking8 hrs
- Reading a mobile money statement.
- Reconciling sales against receipts.
- Separating business money from personal money.
- Calculating actual profit.
03Reaching customers8 hrs
- Setting up and using a business messaging account.
- Photographing products with a phone.
- Writing an offer that sells.
- Responding to customers professionally.
04Growing safely6 hrs
- Fraud patterns in trade and how to refuse them.
- Issuing digital receipts.
- Preparing records for a credit application.
- Assessment.
On completion, you can.
- Maintain a digital stock and sales record.
- Reconcile mobile money receipts against recorded sales.
- Calculate and state the actual profit of their business.
- Present a twelve-month record set suitable for a credit application.
How progress is assessed.
Assessment of the learner’s own live business records over the final three weeks, plus a credit-readiness record pack.
Certification and recognition
The planned certification includes a statement of attainment and a programme completion certificate; Professional programmes also carry an assessed portfolio. The curriculum maps to RTQF levels. Accreditation and external recognition are being sought; this is not a claim of approval.
What comes next.
Discuss your next learning or work goal with the team. Progression depends on demonstrated skills and the entry requirements of the next programme.
Talk about your next step ↗Foundations and Schools & Teachers are planned for Kinyarwanda delivery. Weekly timetables and venue details will be confirmed with each intake.
Source: Curriculum Framework v1.0, pages 10. Read the full framework