Organisational Context

Organisational Context

Organisational Context provides Business Analysts with a good grounding in the basics of business. The course examines various types of businesses and their management structures. Key areas such as Financial and Management accounting, Budgeting and Legal issues are also covered.

Course Content

Law and Government

• Criminal and civil law
• The legislative process in the UK

Business organisations

• Public sector organisations
• Private sector organisations
• Not-for-profit organisations
• Start-up organisations
• Business drivers

Organisational structures

• Departmental
• Project
• Matrix

Functional areas

• Functional divisions within organisations
• Sales and marketing
• Production/service delivery
• HR
• IT
• The finance function - the role of finance and the use and interpretation of the balance sheet and profit and loss account

Management accounting

• Investment appraisal
• Budgeting
• Cash flow forecasts
• Costing approaches

Costing

• Fixed and variable costs
• Absorption and marginal costing
• Standard costing

Financial reporting and analysis

• Profit and loss account
• Balance sheet
• Financial ratios

Legislation

• Anti-discrimination
• Software contracts and liability
• Intellectual property rights
• Data protection, privacy and freedom of information
• Internet issues
• Computer misuse