Business Excellence - Module Three: The Finance Dimension

Business acumen is more than finance, but financial literacy is a good place to start. Financial literacy will help determine challenges and questions before seeking answers, and a grasp of finance metrics and language will help raise risk professional’s credibility with finance peers. This module will not turn the risk professional into a finance professional, but it will provide signposts for relevant further finance-related learning.

This module will include:

• Key roles of business finance.

• Uncertainties and instabilities in the business environment.

• Taking account of what’s not in our control – external macroeconomic impacts.

• Why organisations should have a budget and how they should go about budgeting.

• Statistical and non-statistical techniques to improve accuracy and reduce guesswork.

• Capital investment and project budgetary and risk considerations.

• Global and UK economic forecasts impacting business.

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