The Commercial Awareness course provides business analysts with a broader understanding of their organisation and the business domain within which their work takes place. During the 2 days delegates are introduced to the various financial, commercial and organisational issues which impact on their role. Key areas include:
Financial reporting
Budgeting, costing and pricing
Evaluating a financial case
Organisational behaviour and culture
Organisational structure and operating models
The course uses a mixture of discussions and group and individual exercises to explore the topic areas and, at the end of each section, test questions help participants prepare for the BCS examination. A comprehensive course manual is provided.
Course Content
Financial reporting
The balance sheet
The income and expenditure statement (profit and loss account)
The cash flow statement
Financial ratio analysis
Budgeting, costing and pricing
Budgets and departmental businesses
Cash flow and cash management
Costing and pricing
Evaluating a financial case
The purpose of building a financial case
Techniques for evaluating a financial case:
Payback / breakeven
Discounted cash flow / net present value (DCF/NPV)
Internal rate of return (IRR)
Market analysis and competitive advantage
Analysing the business domain
Analysing the product / service portfolio
Delivering business value
Organisational behaviour and culture
What is organisational behaviour?
Organisational effectiveness and the balanced business scorecard
Understanding and analysing culture
Working in groups
Groups and group dynamics
Formal and informal groups
Organisational structure
Organisation structuring
Types of jobs
Line, staff and functional responsibilities
Formalisation of rules and procedures
Centralisation and decentralisation
Operating models
Organisation structures and their characteristics
Organisational boundaries
BCS certificates
The course prepares participants to sit the one-hour, multiple-choice examination leading certificate in Commercial Awareness offered by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. This certificate is a knowledge-based specialist module in the BCS Diploma in Business Analysis.
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at cfBoot_Group_Buttons20182ecfm1333949435.runPage(D:/Inetpub/vhosts/stayahead.com/httpdocs/eventschedule/Boot_Group_Buttons2018.cfm:47) at cfPage_Insert_OurCourses2ecfm1374457951.runPage(D:/Inetpub/vhosts/stayahead.com/httpdocs/eventschedule2018/Page_Insert_OurCourses.cfm:352) at cfSA_Page_Body2ecfm447858172.runPage(D:/Inetpub/vhosts/stayahead.com/httpdocs/eventschedule2018/SA_Page_Body.cfm:232) at cfoutline2ecfm1180318823.runPage(D:/Inetpub/vhosts/stayahead.com/httpdocs/eventschedule/outline.cfm:123)
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at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._get(CfJspPage.java:389)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._get(CfJspPage.java:351)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._autoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:1468)
at cfBoot_Group_Buttons20182ecfm1333949435.runPage(D:\Inetpub\vhosts\stayahead.com\httpdocs\eventschedule\Boot_Group_Buttons2018.cfm:47)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:247)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:736)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:572)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:3011)
at cfPage_Insert_OurCourses2ecfm1374457951.runPage(D:\Inetpub\vhosts\stayahead.com\httpdocs\eventschedule2018\Page_Insert_OurCourses.cfm:352)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:247)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:736)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:572)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:3011)
at cfSA_Page_Body2ecfm447858172.runPage(D:\Inetpub\vhosts\stayahead.com\httpdocs\eventschedule2018\SA_Page_Body.cfm:232)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:247)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:736)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:572)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:3011)
at cfoutline2ecfm1180318823.runPage(D:\Inetpub\vhosts\stayahead.com\httpdocs\eventschedule\outline.cfm:123)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:247)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:736)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:572)
at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
at coldfusion.filter.IpFilter.invoke(IpFilter.java:45)
at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:495)
at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:42)
at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)
at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:153)
at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:94)
at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:58)
at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62)
at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:219)
at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor52.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:285)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:549)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:320)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:297)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:55)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:187)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)
at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor54.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:285)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:549)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:320)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:55)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:187)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:110)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:494)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:169)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:458)
at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:196)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:637)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)