Contributing to a Safe and Effective Working Environment
Unit summary
This unit requires that candidates demonstrate the skills that all accounting technicians need to operate effectively as a member of an accounting team, or as the accounting member of a borader team, within an organisation.
This unit involves developing those generic skills that are essential to employees performing an accounting function. It requires learners to prioritise, plan and organise work tasks while emphasising the candidate's own training and development needs which wil result in improved performance. It involves the learner in working effectively with other staff, both within and outside an accounting team, and monitoring the work environment to ensure that it remains safe and effective.
Unit details
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15 Business, Administration and Law
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15.1
Accounting and Finance
Assessment Methodology
Centrally set skills test of a minimum of 3 hours taken under high control conditions
You must have knowledge and understanding of the following:
The Business Environment
1. Awareness of employee responsibilities in complying with general legal requirements regarding equal opportunities and the holding of data on computers
The Organisation
2. Understanding of the organisation's business transactions, accounting systems and procedures including the input, holding, protection and transmission of data through the use of computers
3. The organisation's requirements and procedures for protecting against risk, avoiding viruses and maintaining confidentiality where necessary
4. The need for, and awareness of, health, safety and security provisions which apply to organisations
5. Awareness of, and appropriate actions to deal with, hazards within organisations
6. Planning the work environment to allow maximum effectiveness and efficiency in the performance of duties
7. Prioritising and planning duties to achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency
8. Team working and procedures to deal with conflict
Based on AOSG Level 2 in Accounting, Units 22 and 23
FSSC has had sight of draft materials and provided helpful comment on these. A formal request for support from FSSC has been made.
| Learning Outcome |
Assessment Criteria |
| 1. Perform effectively in the workplace |
36.1.A Identify and prioritise routine work tasks, taking account of organisational procedures and prepare a work plan
36.1.B Identify and prioritse unexpected work tasks, taking account of organisational procedures and prepare a work plan
36.1.C Monitor and report progress against diary entries and deadlines, adapting as necessary
36.1.D Monitor and report progress against schedules and deadlines, adapting as necessary
36.1.E Monitor and report progress against action plans and deadlines, adapting as necessary
36.1.F Communicate courteously with, and support in a practical and personal way, colleagues in work tasks in order to build effective working relationships. This should be evidenced through face-to-face communication
36.1.G Communicate courteously with, and support in a practical and personal way, colleagues in work tasks in order to build effective working relationships. This should be evidence by records of communication by telephone and fax.
36.1.H Communicate courteously with, and support in a practical and personal way, colleagues in work tasks in order to build effective working relationships. This should be evidenced by e-mail and by written (word-processed) documents
36.1.I Follow organisational procedures to find workable solutions to conflicts or difficulties in working relationships and which arise from differences in personality, working style, status and through work demands
36.1.J Review and evaluate performance and identify and agree own training and development needs and objectives through discussion, taking account of current work tasks and career goals
36.1.K Review and evaluate performance and identify and agree own training and development needs and objectives through observation, job rotation and any other in-house training, taking account of current work tasks and career goals
36.1.L Review and evaluate performance and identify and agree own training and development needs and objectives through self-study of journals, books, internet etc. taking account of current work tasks and career goals
36.1.M Review and evaluate performance and identify and agree own training and development needs and objectives through courses, taking account of current work tasks and career goals
36.1.N Monitor work methods and activities against legislation, regulations and organisational procedures ensuring that emergency procedures are adequate for potential hazards including illness, accidents, fire evacuation of premises and security breaches
36.1.O Organise and monitor personal work area so that conditions promote an effective and efficient working environment |