The course is designed to guide you through a comprehensive strategic analysis process, and demonstrate the application of theories into real-world business situations.
Strategy Class Learning Objectives:
By completing this strategy course, you'll be able to:
Understand how the strategic analysis process helps decision makers perform in-depth analyses and identify optimal strategic alternatives
Differentiate between the three levels of strategy (corporate, business, and functional)
Perform external analysis by looking at the supply chain, mapping out strategic groups, building competitive forces model and analyzing PEST factors
Perform internal analysis by understanding a company's core competencies, competitive advantage, value chain activities and ways to sustain competitive advantages
Assess a company's current corporate-level, business-level and functional-level strategies
Learn how to generate, evaluate and select optimal strategic alternatives through methods such as SWOT analysis, DCF analysis and multi-criteria analysis
Tie strategic alternatives to a company's mission, vision and goals
Apply all theories taught in the lectures into a case study and generate the appropriate strategies using the provided information
Why Take This Corporate & Business Strategy Course:
CFI's Corporate & Business Strategy course is beyond just academic definitions, theories and concepts — you will take raw data and information provided in the case study, perform analyses as guided through the video lectures, and build strategic alternatives based on the result of your analyses. At the end of the day, you will be able to create a detailed strategy document, describing the entire strategic analysis process from external analysis to the recommendation of strategic alternatives, which can then be presented to the management board of the company.
As a professional financial analyst, the ability to demonstrate both quantitative and qualitative analytical skills is a valuable asset to possess, which allows you to stand out from the competition.
Who Should Take this Business Strategy Course:
This strategy course is designed specifically for financial analysts. While it's open to students from any background (consulting, sales, HR, etc), it's tailored to demonstrate how strategic analysis can be tied to a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model and other types of financial modeling.
Professionals who will get the most value from this class include investment banking, equity research, corporate development, equity research, and private equity.
Enroll now to learn how to perform comprehensive strategic analysis of a business from scratch!
What You'll Learn:
Introduction to Strategy
External Analysis
Internal Analysis
Current Strategies
Strategic Alternatives: Generation, Evaluation and Recommendations
Case Study - Monic
Qualified Assessment
Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI) is a leading global provider of online financial modeling and valuation courses. Since 2016, CFI’s programs and certifications have been delivered to over 500,000 individuals at top universities, investment banks, accounting firms, and operating companies around the world.
The modern financial analyst requires a well-rounded skill set that takes time to acquire. Some of the skills are developed in university, some are developed on the job, and some of the skills come from experience and developing a strong business intuition. At CFI, we combine all three skill sets — theory, application, and intuition — into a condensed, self-paced program that can be taken anytime, anywhere.
CFI is the official global provider of the Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® designation.
This intensive program is delivered to aspiring finance professionals around the world who want to become world-class financial analysts.
We believe that everyone in the world should have equal access to high-quality education.
For every course and product we sell, we’re proud to donate 1% of our profit to charities that support global education.
CFI courses give you practical skills, templates, and tools to move up the finance ladder. We pick up where business school leaves off to teach you on-the-job aspects of corporate finance, investment banking, corporate development, FP&A, treasury, accounting, and more.
CFI courses are taught by professional wall street trainers, who have been teaching classes for new hires at global investment banks for over twenty years.
CFI’s Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® was designed based on over 20 years of financial analyst training experience delivered by our instructors at large global banks and institutions such as BlackRock, Credit Suisse, HSBC, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citi, and more.
CFI was founded in 2016 in partnership with MDA Training, a financial training and development company with over 20 years of experience delivering intensive multi-week training programs at global investment banks and financial institutions.
At CFI, we pride ourselves on offering the best online courses and training for financial modeling, valuation, and other corporate finance topics.
CFI's headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada.
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