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Business Environmental Analysis: Finance's Role

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Business environmental monitoring gathers internal and external data that could affect a company. Business leaders and financial analysts can examine that data to identify implications for their company and develop strategies for those implications. These strategies often mitigate threats or capture opportunities. Companies that better understand their business environment can anticipate and plan for changes, build more accurate financial projections, and allocate resources more effectively.

This course focuses on Finance's role in environmental analysis. You'll learn the types of data that should be monitored by Finance. The course then explains popular models for analyzing that data. 

What You'll Learn ...

In this course, you'll learn:

  • The steps in the environmental monitoring cycle
  • The basics and uses of common-size analysis in environmental monitoring
  • What to analyze: both internal and external, and from the industry level to the customer level
  • Sources of financial business environment information
  • Models to organize and synthesize environmental information for planning and decision-making

Course Outline

Section 1: Environmental Analysis Basics

  • What is Environmental Analysis and Why Do It?
  • The Environmental Monitoring Cycle
  • Common-Size Analysis

Section 2: Dimensions

  • Stakeholders
  • Owners
  • Customers, Products, Competitors, and Industry
  • Other External Factors
  • Sources of Information

Section 3: Models

  • SWOT
  • PESTLE
  • Porter's Five Forces

Section 4: Key Takeaways

  • Key Takeaways

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I’m Rob Stephens, founder of CFO Perspective. CFO Perspective provides continuing education courses for CPAs as well as financial management courses for business advisors and staff. During my career, I’ve been the CFO, SVP of Finance, or Director of Operations of companies from just a few employees to $3 billion in assets and hundreds of employees. 

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