What you will learn:

Develop Your Analytical Skills That are Consistently in High Demand

This Certificate in Introduction to Business Analysis Online Course will teach you powerful quantitative methods that will have you making better, more informed, and more effective business decisions. The days of making critical business decisions by instinct or coin toss are long gone. If you are planning a career in business, you cannot afford to miss this business analysis certification course.

PMBOK® Guide, PMI®, PMP®, CAPM®, and the PMI R.E.P. logo are either marks or registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

This Business Analysis Foundation Course Covers

Topics covered in the course include: 

• Problem Solving and Decision-Making: you’ll learn the business analysis skills you need to make important decisions within your business.

• Probability: Professional development in business is all about learning to understand data analysis and data science - the potential outcomes of good and bad business management.

• Quality data analytics skills can mean the difference between successful and unsuccessful business operations. As such, sampling and survey analysis is paramount. You’ll find out why in this module.

• Decision Analysis: Critical thinking, business intelligence, and communications skills are all part of your decision making and this module teaches you how to structure a problem so you can better deal with the result.

• The techniques of PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) and CPM (Critical Path Method) 

• Financial analysis techniques to ensure you understand how to make a profit, cost estimating, and different types of business costs.

• Risk management and analysis, and how to manage any problems that might arise.

Course Fast Facts:

• Only 6 weeks to complete this professional certificate

• Approximately only 2 to 4 hours per week of study is required

• This course is delivered 100% on-line and is accessible 24/7 from any computer or smartphone

• Instructors lead each course and you will be able to interact with them and ask questions

• You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time

• You can download printer friendly course material or save for viewing off line

• You will be awarded a certificate at completion of this business analysis certificate program

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How to study online course?

Upon enrolment an automated welcome email will be sent to you (please check your junk email inbox if not received as this is an automated email), in order for you to access your online business analyst certificate course, which is available 24/7 on any computer or smart mobile device. 

New business analyst courses start every month to ensure that we have the correct ratio of students to tutors available, please ensure you select a starting date when you go through our shopping cart, at checkout. The business analyst training course is easy to follow and understand.

Recognition & Accreditation

Upon successful completion of this certificate program and achieving a passing score for the assessment, you will be issued with an international continuing education credit (CEU) certificate. This Certificate is applicable worldwide, which demonstrates your commitment to learning new skills.

You can share the certificate with your friends, relatives, co-workers, and potential employers. Also, include it in your resume/CV, professional social media profiles and job applications.

Further Learning

Once you’ve completed this certification training course, why not check out our other certified business courses available? We have a full range of options, from cloud computing to cyber security, software development and software engineering, to web developer courses. By enhancing your knowledge, you’ll be a business analyst master in no time.

There are 12 units of study

Problem Solving and Decision-Making

Decision-making is one of the most important aspects of business. So, we'll start things off by exploring a variety of analytical approaches you can use for making business decisions. We'll also look at the basic steps involved in problem solving.

Introduction to Probability

This lesson will help you understand the probability of events. We'll talk about basic probability concepts and how you assign probabilities to experimental outcomes. You'll find out how to apply probability concepts to business situations.

Introduction to Sampling and Surveys

In today’s lesson, we'll delve into the concepts of mean and standard deviation and how they're used in business. We'll also go over survey analysis, the various steps involved in doing a survey, and the most common errors that people make.

Decision Analysis

Today's lesson is all about the use of probability in decision-making. We'll explore an analytical approach called Decision Analysis. You'll learn how to structure a problem so that when you decide how to deal with it, you know what result to expect. We'll talk about using an optimistic, conservative, and an in-between approach in making decisions. Finally, we'll examine the concept of Expected Value.

Utility and Decision-Making

What if the decision you want to make isn't the most sensible one from a financial perspective? There are times when you need to base the worth of a decision on its value to you. An example of this would be deciding to buy a lottery ticket. Sometimes it's appropriate to make business decisions this way. In today's lesson, we'll talk about this approach and where the different decisions can lead.

Forecasting

All businesses need to forecast sales and expenses. And the forecasts need to be accurate. In this lesson, we'll cover forecasting as it's done in business analysis. You'll learn about the two types of forecasting: qualitative and quantitative.

The Modeling Process

In today's lesson, you'll discover modeling, which is the application of mathematical constructs to decision making. We'll explore simple, intermediate, and complex types of models and discuss the two approaches to model development: reductionist and holistic.

Modeling in a Corporate Environment

Today is about how models are developed within a business organization. We'll talk about what needs to be done and who needs to do it in order to make the modeling effort a success. We'll explore the respective roles of the analyst (modeler) and the client for whom the model is being developed.

Financial Analysis

The most widely used type of business analysis is financial analysis. This probably doesn't surprise you too much since the point of any business is to make a profit. Today, we'll look at financial analysis and how it differs from accounting. We'll discuss cost estimating, and various types of business costs. You'll get familiar with the concepts of break-even analysis and benefit/cost analysis, both of which play a vital role in business analysis.

Project Management PERT/CPM

The techniques of PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) and CPM (Critical Path Method) have proven to be extremely valuable to project managers. In today's lesson, I'll explain the basics of PERT/CPM and how to utilize these techniques in your work. You'll meet a simple technique called a Gantt chart, which works quite well for planning a simple project with a relatively small number of tasks.

Computer Simulation and Risk Analysis

Risk is a part of any business situation, which makes it something you need to consider when you do business analysis. Simulation is an excellent method of performing risk analysis. So today we'll cover step-by-step procedures for creating and using a simulation model.

Computer-Based Information Systems

In this, our final lesson, we'll look at computer-based information systems. This includes such areas as Decision Support Systems, Optimization Analysis, and Knowledge-Based Systems. You'll learn what each of these areas constitutes, and I'll show you many business applications of each.

Entry requirements

Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.

Minimum education

Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.

Computer requirements

Students will need access to a computer and the internet.

Minimum specifications for the computer are:

Windows:

Microsoft Windows XP, or laterModern and up to date Browser (Internet Explorer 8 or later, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

MAC/iOS

OSX/iOS 6 or laterModern and up to date Browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

All systems

Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or fasterFlash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)

Students will also need access the following applications:

Adobe Acrobat Reader

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