Strategic Business Leader - I

Paper Code: 
AAF 511
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To apply relevant knowledge, skills, and exercise professional judgment in assessing strategic position, determining strategic choice, and implementing strategic action through beneficial business process and structural change.

 

18.00
Unit I: 

Leadership

  • Qualities of leadership-Role, Leadership traits, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, professional values.
  • Leadership and organizational culture- Leadership style, Impact on culture and ethics, Analyzing culture.
  • Professionalism, ethical codes and the public interest- Tucker 5 question approach, Social responsibility of accountants, combating corruption, ethical threats and safeguards.
18.00
Unit II: 

Strategy

  • Concepts of strategy- Strategic decisions, Johnson, Scholes and Whittington model;.
  • Environmental issues-PESTEL, Porter’s Diamond, external key drivers of change, Assumptions of future environment.
  • Competitive forces-Porter’s five forces, Porter’s value chain, opportunities and Threats, value networks.
  • The internal resources, capabilities and competences of an organization- strategic capability, unique resources and core competences, threshold resources, SWOT, competitive advantage

 

18.00
Unit III: 

Strategic choices

  • Strategic options, Potential and options, 7 ‘P’s, Boston Consulting Group, Ansoff matrix, methods of pursuing a chosen strategicdirection
  • RiskàIdentification, assessment andmeasurement of risk- framework for riskManagement, Identify and evaluate the key risks, Assess attitudes towards risk and risk appetite, dynamic nature of risk, Risk assessment models,  ALARP.
  • Managing, monitoring and mitigating Risk-  Role of a Risk manager, embedding risk in an organization’s culture, TARA, benefits of incurring or accepting some risk

 

18.00
Unit IV: 

Organizational control and audit

  • Management and internal control systems- Meaning, Need, Features, Effectiveness and Potential Weakness, Importance of sound internal control system, Changes to the system
  • Audit and compliance- need for an internal audit function auditor, independence, effective internal audit committee, appropriate responses to auditors’ recommendations
  • Internal control and management
  • Reporting- Need and contents of Report, Reliability of internal control for Financial Reporting
18.00
Unit V: 

Professional skills      

  • Communication- cultural differences, compelling and logical arguments, simplify complex issues;
  • Commercial acumen-organizational and wider external factors, key issues in determining how to address or resolve problems, insight and perception in understanding work-related and organizational issues; 
  • Analysis- analytical techniques, analyze appropriate data sources;
  • Skepticism- reasons for issues and problems, justifications and obtaining sufficient evidence;
  • Evaluation- forecasts of the implications of external and internal factors, problems or when making decisions
Essential Readings: 

• ACCA Module

Academic Year: