Organisational Context
This certificate is concerned with the organisational context for business analysis.
Its focus is on using a holistic approach to understand the environment that business
analysts operate in to craft beneficial change.
- Law and government
- What is law; criminal and civil law; legislative process
- Professions and professional bodies
- Legal status; reservation of title and function; professional bodies
- Types of organisation
- Sole Traders; partnerships; private sector; public sector; non-profit organisation
- Financing a start-up company
- Why capital is needed; the business plan; sources of finance
- Financial and Management accounting
- Capital expenditure; asset; liability; basic ledgers; profit and loss; balance sheet; costing approaches; budgeting; cash flow forecast
- Performance measurement
- Financial Ratios; ROTA, ROCE, Liquidity, Gearing
- Investment appraisal
- The justification process; business cases; costs; benefits; appraisal methods; discounting
- Structure & management of organisations
- Organisational models; depth of structure; centralisation and decentralisation; business and operational functions
- Legal issues
- Anti-discrimination legislation; software contracts and liability; intellectual property rights; data protection
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