Who should attend this Better Business Cases™ Training Course?
Better Business Case™ Certifications will be valuable for individuals responsible for producing spending proposals and business justifications, including:
- Accountants
- Accounting Officers - deliver results for the public
- Financial Advisors
- Senior Responsible Owners
- Management Board Members
- Procurement Officers
Prerequisites
You will need to have been successful at the Better Business Cases™ Foundation exam to take the Practitioner exam.
Having attended the Better Business Cases™ Foundation course, you will need to ensure you have with you the Welsh Government Green Book Guidance on Public Sector Business Cases Using The Five Case Model document. This will be required for the open book Practitioner exam.
Better Business Cases™ Practitioner Course Overview
This 2-day Better Business Cases™ Practitioner Course will enable individuals to plan, initiate, and deliver a business case that adheres to the Five Case Model - the HM Treasury’s best practice guidance. Whilst elevating the probability of investment through developing a thorough justification, candidates will learn how to tailor the guidance to answer potential doubts that investors have about a business case, and ensure functionality of proposed operations.
Better Business Cases™ is a strategic, methodic, and standardised approach to developing a business case that is comprehensive, accurate, and portrays the value of a change to prospective investors. Following the HM Treasury’s Green Book Guidance, in accordance with The Five Case Model, the course delineates the constituents that contribute to a persuasive business case, including comprehending the strategic, management, commercial, economic, and financial case.
The Five Case Model, the UK government’s best practice approach, helps to establish a clear step-by-step operation to developing a business case, from making intervening decisions to planning spending proposals.
The purpose of this Better Business Cases™ Practitioner course is to develop a candidate's ability to deliver a comprehensive business case, through encouraging the acquisition of expansive knowledge of the theoretical foundations of the guidance. Upon the completion of this Practitioner course, a candidate will be able to start applying the model to a real business case development project.
This Better Business Cases™ Practitioner training course is fully accredited by APMG, a world-leading examination and accreditation institution.
The following pre-course reading will be e-mailed to you as a PDF document. Please ensure you have the right software available to read/extract a PDF file. The pre-course reading takes approximately 8-10 hours to perform and consists of the following:
- Better Business Case® Workbook Pre-course study
- Green Book Guidance On Public Sector Business Cases Using The Five Case Model
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