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Description
Course Overview
The course and examination are based on The Five Case Model, the UK government’s best practice approach to planning spending proposals and enabling effective business decisions. This provides a step by step guide to developing a business case, by:
- Establishing a clear need for intervention – a case for change
- Setting clear objectives – what you want to achieve from the investment
- Considering a wide range of potential solutions – ensuring an optimal balance of benefits, cost and risk
- Putting the arrangements in place to successfully deliver the proposal.
The course is relevant to those responsible for developing and producing spending proposals or their assessment and approval; in particular:
- Accounting Officers – responsible for delivering public value;
- Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Programme Directors and Project Managers, responsible for successful delivery;
- Directors of Finance, procurement and planning, responsible for the forward planning and prioritization of spending proposals;
- Members of approvals and management boards with responsibility for scrutinizing or approving spending proposals.
Learning objectives
Individuals will benefit from this course by achieving:
- An improved understanding of the Better Business Case process, relevant to both those responsible for producing business cases and those who approve them.
- Understanding of an established and proven methodology which can be applied at both strategic (macro) and tactical (micro) levels.
- Core business competency for any manager or director.
Organisations will:
- Reduce unnecessary spend and optimize public value
- Reduce consultancy costs.
- Be faster throughput and a clear, proportionate approval process.
- Improve quality of decision making
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements
Course assessment and certification
This course specifically provides the background knowledge for the related certification exam (which learners must pass in order to achieve the formal Certification).
IMPORTANT: Please note that the certification EXAM IS NOT INCLUDED with this course. The exam can be purchased separately from the course publisher and this can be organised by eLearning Marketplace.
Exam Format
Multiple Choice
50 questions
25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
40 minutes duration
Closed book.
