BSBFIN801 — Lead financial strategy development
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What an assessment for BSBFIN801 must cover
35 assessable components: 3 elements (12 performance criteria), 5 performance evidence and 10 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 8 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Prepare financial strategy
- 1.1Establish capacity of existing financial systems by analysing financial reports
- 1.2Forecast financial data and business system requirements including additional expenditure requirements
- 1.3Consult relevant stakeholders, including financial advisers, about financial information to support decisions
- 1.4Prepare recommendations and assessment indicators for budget expenditure or for modification of existing projections according to organisational and legislative requirements
- 1.5Present recommendations to relevant stakeholders
2 Implement financial strategy
- 2.1Identify resourcing requirements to implement financial recommendations
- 2.2Communicate recommendations to relevant stakeholders including organisational staff
- 2.3Support staff in implementation of recommendations
- 2.4Monitor actual income and expenditure against budgets
3 Monitor implementation of financial strategy
- 3.1Identify deviations from budgets that generate an adverse effect on budget objectives
- 3.2Promptly develop action plans to remedy significant deviations from budget objectives and projections
- 3.3Revise budget priorities to meet operational contingencies and risk management
Performance evidence
- lead financial strategy development for at least one organisation or work area.
- use and analyse financial and economic information to achieve enterprise objectives and maximise returns on financial resources
- analyse and use budget systems and reporting processes
- monitor and manage financial resources over a full planning-cycle, including setting targets, managing risks and improving compliance mechanisms
- revise forecast according to changes in budget deviations.
Knowledge evidence
- financial risk factors and mitigation procedures
- principles of accounting and budgeting including: balance sheet ratios, income statement ratios, cash flow statement ratios, income and expenditure, expenditure forecasting, contingency plans
- compliance requirements relating to managing financial resources, including legislative and regulatory responsibilities
- finance and investment decisions to improve financial returns of the organisation
- financial and accounting principles relating to analysing and interpreting financial reports and resources
- financial, accounting and economic terminology and systems relevant to financial strategy
- forecasting financial requirements
- business targets
- business system requirements
- techniques for calculating and analysing financial data and procedures for their applications.
Foundation skills
- Numeracy: Applies knowledge of mathematical information to statistically analyse data, confirm reliability, conduct modelling and forecast trends Selects and uses familiar mathematical techniques to calculate costs and to conduct cost benefit analyses
- Oral communication: Uses appropriate language, questioning and listening techniques to provide and elicit information and to articulate policies, plans, results and related information effectively
- Reading: Identifies, analyses and evaluates complex text from a variety of sources to determine business requirements
- Writing: Prepares specific information which clearly conveys an understanding of outcomes and uses terminology appropriate to present to relevant personnel Researches, plans and prepares information for stakeholders incorporating appropriate vocabulary, grammatical structure and numerical conventions
- Teamwork: Collaborates and negotiates with others to achieve joint outcomes, playing an active role in facilitating group interaction and influencing direction
- Planning and organising: Applies relevant legislation, industry standards and organisational policies and procedures in the conduct of own work Defines benefits, costs, risks and feasibility from a broad range of perspectives and think laterally to redesign aspects to address potential issues Negotiates agreed plans and outcomes and required indicators and routinely monitors and reports on them to identify required corrective actions
- Problem solving: Takes responsibility for high impact decisions in complex situations involving many variables and constraints
- Self-management: Systematically gathers and analyses all relevant information, reviews data and evaluates options to inform decisions about complex strategies
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Questions about assessing BSBFIN801
What does an assessment tool for BSBFIN801 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for BSBFIN801 needs to address all 35 unit components: 3 elements with 12 performance criteria, 5 performance evidence requirements, 10 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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