Overview
Assessing Drivers of Business Growth overview
Understanding the key drivers of a business’ growth is vital to determining the company’s debt capacity and its ability to fulfill debt with its cash flows. This helps credit analysts make sound credit decisions. In this Assessing Drivers of Business Growth course, we will look at the overall framework for assessing business growth including analyzing the external economy, the industry, and the company itself.
We will explore the commonly used tools by credit analysts to perform analyses on various aspects of a company and summarize the external and internal factors impacting the business’ growth. By the end of this course, you should feel comfortable determining whether a company is in good operational or financial condition.
Reading Business financial information learning objectives
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the framework for assessing corporate business growth
- Analyze the external economy that a company operates in using PESTEL analysis
- Analyze a company’s industry by looking at Porter’s five forces and the industry lifecycle
- Assess a company’s lifecycle, risks, and competitive advantage
- Perform SWOT analysis to evaluate a company’s internal and external environment
Assessing Drivers of Business Growth is a required course of CFI’s CBCA® program
CFI’s Certified Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)® Program offers skills include credit evaluation, documentation, and review procedures. For beginners to advanced users, the CBCA® program is designed to help you become a world-class credit analyst.
Who should take this CBCA® course?
This Assessing Drivers of Business Growth course is perfect for any aspiring credit analysts working in insurance, underwriting, rating agencies, commercial lending, corporate credit analysis, and other areas of credit evaluation.
Assessing Drivers of Business Growth
SubscribeLevel 2
Approx 2h to complete
100% online and self-paced
What you'll learn
Become a certified Commercial Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)™ Certification
Assessing Drivers of Business Growth is part of the Commercial Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)™ certification, which includes 35 courses.
- Skills Learned Financial Analysis, Credit Structuring, Risk Management
- Career Prep Commercial Banking, Credit Analyst, Private Lending
Path to certification
Prep courses
6 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
01 OptionalCore courses
16 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
02 RequiredElective courses
13 courses in advanced and intermediate levels.
03 RequiredGet certified
Submit your CBCA™ checklist and order your certificate.
04 Required Join our community
Get access to the Global Corporate Finance Society.
05 Optional How the certification works
What our students say
Analysing external economy by using PESTEL analysis, internal economy by using Porter's five forces,ansoffs matrix , SWOT analysis and handling business risk and competition for the qualitative growth of a company
fotaw chambeng vivian
I really enjoyed the course. It provided a structured approach for the analysis of a company's growth potential. This ensures that the right decisions are take.
Macdonald Ossuetta
The subject is comprehensive and easy to comprehend.
Arvind Kumar
CFI lectures continue to deliver top of the range clear, concise strategies, tools and techniques to analyze the external environment, industry and company as a whole. This is great skill set required by the credit analyst.
