BCS-ISEB Commercial Awareness

• Those wishing to acquire a basic level of understanding about business finance and behavioural influences.
• Those wishing to attain the BCS Certificate in the Commercial Awareness.

Delegates will be able to:

• Understand three techniques used to evaluate a financial case.
• Understand costing and pricing.
• Understand cash flow forecasting and budgeting.
• Describe the contents of financial accounting documents.
• Interpret financial accounts.
• Explain specified business performance ratios.
• Define the elements and usage of Porter's Five Forces Framework and Value Chain.
• Define the elements and usage of the Boston Consulting Group's matrix.
• Define the performance measures and usage of the Balanced Business Scorecard.
• Define the elements of specified cultural analysis approaches.
• Explain the different management structures and their characteristics.
• Define the different architectures that may be adopted by organisations.

IS professionals – business analysts, project managers, solution architects and others – need a good understanding of the broader context of the organisation and the business domain in which their work takes place. This course examines a number of aspects of this wider context and provides insights into various financial, commercial and organisational issues.