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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP67 · Level 7

SME Chief Executive

Target occupation: owner-manager, SME chief executive.

Target occupation
owner-manager, SME chief executive
Level
7 — Expert and executive
Duration
9 months
Taught hours
700 h
Credits
70

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Strategy and business model

    190 hours

    Diagnosis, positioning, model, growth, investment trade-offs

  2. Financial leadership

    190 hours

    Reading and steering the accounts, cash, financing, banking relations, valuation

  3. Leading people and the organisation

    170 hours

    Organisation, hiring, delegation, employee relations, culture

  4. Legal, tax and governance framework

    100 hours

    Company forms, obligations, director liability, governance, succession

  5. Executive conduct

    50 hours

    Deciding alone, owning it, surrounding the decision, preparing succession

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

SME Chief Executive — IHETC