Commercial Awareness Course + Exam
Commercial Awareness Certification
To be a good professional, you need to know more than just how things work. You need to know how a business actually works and makes money. The Commercial Awareness certification is designed to give you a view of how a business works, which is necessary for any modern Business Analyst role.
Learn the Language of Business Finance
The BCS Foundation Certificate in Commercial Awareness is about understanding business finance. You will learn about terms and get the practical IT skills you need to make and understand financial documents. This includes:
- Cash Flow Statements: Understanding how money comes in and goes out of a company.
- Income and Financial Statements: Learning how to see if a company is doing well or not.
Understanding How a Company Works
A company is not just about numbers; it is made up of people. This course will teach you about the ways a company can be organized and the different groups that exist inside an organization. When you understand these things, you can work better with others and make sure that changes to the company are successful.
Bringing Business and IT Together
Our Business Analysis training NZ is focused on bringing business and IT information together. You will learn about how to manage benefits and use techniques to show that a project is worth investing in. This means that every technical solution you suggest will be based on solid business sense.
Why is Commercial Awareness Important in New Zealand?
New Zealand companies are looking for Business Analysts who can think like business owners. Whether you are in Auckland or Wellington, having a Business Analyst certification NZ that includes commercial awareness will make you stand out from others. It shows that you understand:
- Financial Position: How to see where a company stands in the market.
- Business Change Procedures: How to make changes that will actually improve the company’s bottom line.
- Professional Growth: How to move from a technical role to a strategic role where you can give high-level advice.
Improve Your Career Today
Do not just look at what is needed for a single project; look at the whole business. Get the IT skills and financial knowledge that modern employers want. Start with the Commercial Awareness certification. Become the expert that every New Zealand company is looking for by combining your technical background with a Business Analysis Foundation in commerce.
- Business analysts
- Business change analysts
- Programme or project managers
- Solution architects
- Service managers and jobs related to business change roles involving financial responsibilities
No pre-requisites for this course
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).
- CA: BCS Foundation Certificate in Commercial Awareness
The certification exam can be registered and attempted within 3 months of course/module completion at Logitrain training centre on weekdays during normal business hours (excludes public holidays)
(Course material provided is shown above)
- Understand three techniques used in evaluation of financial case
- Understand terms costing, pricing, cash flow forecasting and budgeting
- Understand and describe terms as part of accounting documents
- Interpret and analyze financial documents
- Explain specified business performance
- Define the usage and implementation of Porter’s Five Forces Framework
- Boston Consulting Group’s matrix and Value Chain
- Get insight to the performance measures and usage of the Balanced Business Scorecard
- Define the various approaches to specified cultural analysis
This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.
- Business analysts
- Business change analysts
- Programme or project managers
- Solution architects
- Service managers
- Evaluating a Financial Case
- Purpose of Building a Financial Case
- Techniques used for evaluating a Financial Case Payback
- Calculation
- Payback and Risk
- Limitations of Payback
- Discounted Cash Flow /Net Present Value
- Purpose
- Calculation
- The NPV Decision Rule
- Internal Rate of Return
- How to derive IRR
- How IRR is used
- The IRR Decision Rule
- Budgeting, Costing and Pricing
- Budgets and Departmentalized Businesses
- The purpose of budgets
- Reasons for departmentalization
- Cost centers and profit centers
- Cash Flow and Cash Management
- Cash flow forecasting
- Use of cash flow in decision making
- Cash flow and profit
- Costing and Pricing
- Fixed and Variable costs
- Direct and indirect costs
- Break even and Contribution Analysis
- Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet)
- Purpose and Structure
- The nature, purpose and types of Capital
- Current and non-current liabilities
- Current and non-current assets
- Income and Expenditure (Income Statement, Profit and Loss Account)
- The importance of Operating Profit
- Revenue (turnover)
- Cost of Sales
- Administrative Expenses
- Profit after Tax
- Statement of Cash Flows (Cash Flow Statement)
- Ratios (formulae and interpretation)
- Profitability Ratios: Operating Margin and Return on Capital Employed ratios
- Liquidity (Cash Management) Ratios : Current and “Acid Test??? ratios
- Gearing (Leverage) Ratio: Debt/Equity Ratio
- Market analysis and competitive advantage
- Analyzing the business domain – Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
- Analyzing the portfolio – Boston Box
- Delivering value – Porter’s Value Chain
- Organizational behaviour and culture
- What is organizational behaviour?
- Organizational effectiveness and the Balanced Scorecard
- Understanding and analyzing culture
- Organizational Cultural Types (Deal and Kennedy; Handy)
- International Cultures (Hofstede)
- The Cultural Web
- Group formation
- Groups and group dynamics
- Formal and informal groups
- Groups and group tasks
- Characteristics of formal groups
- Homan’s theory of group formation
- Tuckman and Jensen’s theory of group development
- Characteristics of informal groups
- Social networks
- Principles of organizational structure
- Organization structuring
- Elements of organization structure
- The six Structure Levels
- The Leavitt Diamond
- Types of jobs
- Work specialization
- Flat and tall hierarchies
- Span of control
- Line, staff and functional relationships
- Formalization of rules and procedures
- Centralization v decentralization
- Operating models
- Organisation structures and their characteristics
- Functional
- Divisional – product or service/ geography/ customer
- Team-based – cross functional/ project
- Organisational boundaries
- Boundaryless organisations
- Outsourcing
- Offshoring
- Hollow organisation structures
- Modular organisation structures
- Virtual organisations
- Collaborations and strategic alliances
Includes Official Exam Fee
Take the certification exam within 3 months of course / module completion
100% Money Back Guarantee
Training fee is fully refundable if you are not satisfied with the training
Includes Course Material
Course material in hardcopy is included for you to keep for reference and support
Includes Practise Questions
Practise questions are included to assist you in preparing for the official exam
Highly Skilled Trainers
Our trainers are highly skilled with expertise and extensive hands-on experience
Our Price Beat Guarantee
Relax, we will beat competitor’s advertised price. Our course has no extra costs
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