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Overview

The OCR Level 1 Award in Understanding Business Enterprise Activities provides candidates with a high quality, industry-recognised award. It is a vocationally-related qualification that provides valuable opportunities for individuals to gain underpinning knowledge and understanding in aspects of both Enterprise in general and the setting up of a business.

This qualification specifically aims to:

• Identify the personal qualities, knowledge, skills and behaviours required of an enterprising person and how to improve these.
• Raise awareness of the realities of planning and running a business: including promoting yourself and your product/service; having business goals; attracting customers and managing money.
• Identify the sources of help and information available to businesses and how these may be used to a business's advantage.

In order to achieve the OCR Level 1 Award in Understanding Business Enterprise Activities candidates must achieve a minimum of three credits.

Candidates must achieve a minimum of two credits from the Level 1 units detailed below.

Level 1 Units

QCA code	Title	Unit number	Learning time (hours)	Credit value
R/501/2236	Business enterprise self assessment	1	10	1
Y/501/2237	Opportunities and risks in business	2	10	1
D/501/2238	Market your business	3	10	1
H/501/2239	Make successful deals in business	4	10	1
Y/501/2240	Get help and support in business	5	10	1
D/501/2241	Plans in a business	6	10	1
K/501/2243	Money and your business	7	10	1
J/501/2248	What is enterprise	8	10	1

Candidates may achieve the final credit from the Level 1 units detailed above, or from the Level 2 or 3 units detailed below.

Level 2 Units

QCA code	Title	Unit number	Learning time (hours)	Credit value
Y/501/2223	The skills needed to run a business	9	10	1
D/501/2224	Business opportunities and risks	10	10	1
H/501/2225	Business market and customers	11	10	1
K/501/2226	Negotiation in business	12	10	1
T/501/2228	Planning in business	13	10	1
A/501/2229	Resources and infrastructure within a business	14	10	1
M/501/2230	Business help and support	15	10	1
T/501/2231	Manage finance in a business	16	10	1
A/501/3591	What is enterprise	17	10	1

Level 3 Units

QCA code	Title	Unit number	Learning time (hours)	Credit value
F/501/3172	Promote yourself and your ideas	18	10	1
M/501/2387	Prepare yourself for starting a business	19	10	1
A/501/3171	Find out about business	20	10	1

Candidates can not count units covering the same content but from different Levels towards their overarching award claim. Barred combinations of units are detailed below. Units detailed on the same row may be taken by candidates, but can not count towards the overarching award claim.

Level 1 Unit	Level 2 Unit	Level 3 Unit
Business enterprise self assessment	The skills needed to run a business	Prepare yourself for starting a business
Opportunities and risks in business	Business opportunities and risks	N/A
Market your business	Business market and customers	N/A
Make successful deals in business	Negotiation in business	N/A
Get help and support in business	Business help and support	N/A
Plans in a business	Planning in business	N/A
Money and your business	Manage finance in a business	N/A
What is enterprise	What is enterprise	N/A