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Management Skills

Accountancy · Level 6  ·  4 Chapters

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What Management Skills covers

Work through planning, organising, directing and coordinating in Management Skills, the Accountancy Level 6 unit on managing office work. Planning comes first: goals and objectives, work plans, monitoring progress, the planning process, barriers, management by objectives and types of plans. Organising turns those plans into office tasks and responsibilities, authority, structures, delegation, and centralisation against decentralisation. Directing deals with orders and instructions, staff supervision, leadership characteristics, roles, theories and styles, and communication structures. Coordinating closes the unit with work schedules, roles and responsibilities, and rewards and recognition.

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Careers after Management Skills

This unit prepares you for supervisory work in accounting and finance offices. It covers planning with goals and work plans, organising with delegation and structures, directing with supervision and leadership styles, and coordinating with work schedules and rewards.

  • Accounts sections of county government offices - You set goals and work plans, monitor progress and assign office tasks and responsibilities, and you are paid a salary.
  • Finance departments of manufacturing firms in Thika - You organise the office structure, set authority and responsibility, and apply delegation, drawing a salary.
  • Accounting and audit firms in Nairobi - You give orders and instructions and supervise staff, earning a salary.
  • Savings and credit society offices in Eldoret - You use leadership roles and styles, and exchange opinions and ideas with colleagues, on a salary.
  • Your own bookkeeping practice - You create work schedules, set out roles and responsibilities and plan rewards and recognition, earning fees from your clients.

Salaried posts and a practice of your own both call for these management skills.

Chapters

1
Apply planning principle
28 topics
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2
Apply organizing principle
13 topics
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3
Apply directing principle
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4
Apply coordinating principle
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What Management Skills covers: 30 main topics in 4 chapters

1. Apply planning principle

  1. 1.1 Goals and objectives principle
  2. 1.2 Work plans
  3. 1.3 Monitoring of work progress
  4. 1.4 Principles of planning
  5. 1.5 Steps in planning process
  6. 1.6 Barriers to planning
  7. 1.7 Guidelines to avoiding barriers
  8. 1.8 Management by objectives
  9. 1.9 Types of plans

2. Apply organizing principle

  1. 2.1 Office goals and objectives
  2. 2.2 Office tasks and responsibilities
  3. 2.3 Monitoring of progress
  4. 2.4 Process of organization
  5. 2.5 Organizing components
  6. 2.6 Authority and responsibility
  7. 2.7 Organization structures
  8. 2.8 Delegation
  9. 2.9 Centralization and decentralization
  10. 2.10 Principles of organization

3. Apply directing principle

  1. 3.1 Orders and instructions
  2. 3.2 Staff Supervision
  3. 3.3 Exchange of opinions and ideas
  4. 3.4 Characteristics of successful leaders
  5. 3.5 Leadership roles
  6. 3.6 Theories
  7. 3.7 Leadership styles
  8. 3.8 Communication structures

4. Apply coordinating principle

  1. 4.1 Work schedules creation
  2. 4.2 Roles and responsibilities
  3. 4.3 Rewards and recognition

Revise this unit

Exam-style questions 56 Written to CDACC standard, with answers Test yourself Multiple-choice, one at a time Practise questions Quick recall — check you know the facts
3 more for this unit
Oral exam preparation What the assessor asks, and how to answer out loud Worked calculations Step-by-step maths with the common mistakes Quick cards Myth busters, skill tips and scenarios

Beyond the syllabus

Decision simulator On site, what would you do? Workplace scenarios Real site situations — what would you do? Turn this into income Where this skill earns — what to charge, how to find clients

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