Making strategy work in the real world

Overview

In businesses of all sizes, strategy plays a major role in their success. Therefore, having a recognisable strategy and being able to follow planned strategies is vital to the success of a business. People of all levels within an organisation can play a role in strategizing if they understand the importance of strategy.

This course will teach you what it means for a business to have a strategy, and how as a finance professional you can play an active part in forming, implementing and monitoring the success of that strategy over time. You will learn how to analyse trends; set targets and what tactics you can use to ensure your strategies are successful.

The course will enable you to:

• ·       Learn what strategy really is and what role finance professionals can take in the strategy-building process of your organisation
• understand how to use metrics to identify opportunities
• discover how you can define your organisation’s potential and use historical trends to track opportunities
• develop your strategy through setting targets, and learn how to use forecasting when target setting
• explore how to implement your strategy and how to ensure that it is being upheld
• consider different tactics that you can use to bring strategies to life and ensure that you are getting the most out of them
• once implemented, understand how you can monitor these strategies and assess how they are performing

Key information

• learn at your own pace
• help meet your annual CPD requirements
• exclusive member benefit – 10% discount
• iPad/Android compatible.

Helping accountants grow

Disclaimer: This course and outline is provided by a third-party course provider. All course bookings are subject to the terms and conditions set by the course provider. Please see individual supplier pages for full terms and conditions. ACCA takes no liability for bookings made with third-party suppliers.