Course: ISEB Organisational Context - 2 days

This 2 day course 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.

The course is delivered by experienced practitioners who are main contributors to the BCS book "Business Analysis".  This training provider has helped 10,000 delegates pass ISEB Certificate exams, with a pass rate of over 93%.

Organisational Context is exercise based and a comprehensive manual, containing detailed information about business analysis techniques and providing references for further reading, is supplied as part of the course.

This course prepares candidates to sit the examination for the ISEB Certificate in Organisational Context. This involves a one-hour, open book examination that may be taken at the end of the course or at a public examination session. The certificate in Organisational Context is a core module for the ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis.

The exam fee is included in the course price.

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