What you need to know
Subject Outcomes
Keen to know what you will learn with our Legal Secretary N4 programme? This course serves as an introductory course to assist you with your legal secretary career. Here’s what you can expect to learn:
| Subject | Description |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Business English | Improve your English language skills with Introduction to Business English. This subject will make you more confident in your English speaking and writing abilities. Language is an important skill to have when writing emails and communicating with clients. |
| Entrepreneurship 1 | Get an introduction to the basic concepts of entrepreneurship and what it takes to run your own business. Learn about the difference between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management, and the role of venture creation in society |
| Bookkeeping to Trial Balance | This subject forms the foundation of your accounting knowledge. It teaches you how to prepare books of account from source documents and ledgers, as well as trial balance and bank and creditors reconciliations. |
| Business Literacy | Effective business communication and numeracy is essential for any business person. This subject also focuses on written and spoken communication, as well as numeracy business tools such as fractions, decimal numbers, percentages, ratios, proportions, equations, interest rates and graphs. |
| Office and Legal Practice | This subject will take you through the legal procedures and how to apply law principles within a business. Learn about the role of an admin assistant and how to keep record of the acts and laws for a business. |
| Entrepreneurship 2 | Build on the knowledge you learnt in the previous course on this subject. Learn how to create a strategy to launch your business, as well as how to build and manage a team. Also learn about the legal aspects that come with starting a business. |
| Marketing Management and Public Relations | This subject teaches you how the marketing and public relations functions work together to build a company’s brand. While marketing is interested in the market, consumers and demand, public relations is interested in relationships, reducing conflict and improving cooperation. |
| Financial Statements | Financial statements teach you how to understand the principles of drafting financial statements and also how to draft financial statements. |
| Human Resources Management and Labour Relations | Learn about Human Resource Management and Labour Relations at the same time. Gain the skills needed to make sure that your company has the best people working there and that the workplace is fair and productive. |
| Entrepreneurship 3 | This subject forms part of the Advanced Level in the ICB Entrepreneurship Programme. It builds on the knowledge gained in Entrepreneurship 1 and Entrepreneurship 2 in your Foundation and Intermediate Level. |
| Financial Management and Control | Gain the knowledge and skills on how to apply managerial finance and control principles in a commercial environment. |
| Financial Reporting and Regulatory Frameworks | You will get an understanding of the framework of accounting and investment property. This subject will give you the skills to use financial instruments. |
| Research Theory and Practice (by short dissertation; topic: Entrepreneurship) | With this subject you will explore accounting research. You will be given skills that will enable you to formulate research objectives, analyse and interpret findings as well as draw conclusions and make recommendations. |
Study Upgrade
The great thing about our NATED courses is that you can further your education. After completing the National Diploma in Financial Accounting you can always apply to do the ICB Higher Certificate Entrepreneurship in Office Administration