Course Overview

Name: Organisational Context
Duration: 2 days
The price includes the ISEB examination fee

Organisational Context Training Course

Our Organisational Context Training Courses provide Business Analysts with a firm foundation in the basics of business. The course examines various types of enterprises, their legal status and the variety of ways that they might be structured. Key aspects of financial accounting (such as financial ratios) and management accounting (such as investment appraisal) are also considered together with a wide range of legal considerations. The course demonstrates how the enterprise's structure, objectives and environment help define the role of the business analyst.

The Organisational Context Training Course is delivered by trainers who bring their substantial experience and practical knowledge to the programme. The courses are exercise based and a comprehensive manual is supplied as part of the course.

ISEB qualifications

This course prepares participants 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 specialist module for the ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis .

SFIA Mapping

This course supports skill FMIT, levels 4 and 5.

Course Content

  1. Law and Government
    • Criminal and civil law
    • The legislative process in the UK
  2. Business organisations
    • Public sector organisations
    • Private sector organisations
    • Not-for-profit organisations
    • Start-up organisations
    • Business drivers
  3. Organisational structures
    • Departmental
    • Project
    • Matrix
  4. 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
  5. Management accounting
    • Investment appraisal
    • Budgeting
    • Cash flow forecasts
    • Costing approaches
  6. Costing
    • Fixed and variable costs
    • Absorption and marginal costing
    • Standard costing
  7. Financial reporting and analysis
    • Profit and loss account
    • Balance sheet
    • Financial ratios
  8. Legislation
    • Anti-discrimination
    • Software contracts and liability
    • Intellectual property rights
    • Data protection, privacy and freedom of information
    • Internet issues
    • Computer misuse
© Assist Knowledge Development. Please contact Martin Pearson, either by phone on 01844 211665 or by email at martin.pearson@assistkd.com.