Strategic Case Study

This module aims to enable students to understand and apply tools and models to develop strategic analysis, choice and implementation skills. Students will become competent in the use of management information to measure and monitor strategic performance. A comprehensive review of good governance practices will be undertaken, all developed within applicable ethical frameworks. Evaluating complex scenarios will be a feature of the module, based on complex data and financial and stakeholder analysis, including making recommendations.

On completion of this module, candidates will reach a competency sufficient to be able to:

• Evaluate strategic objectives for a specified scenario
• Prepare and advise on strategic analysis, for a specified scenario, by evaluating the external and internal environments to support strategy development
• Apply key strategic models and prepare advice on, for a specified scenario, strategic choice
• Discuss and evaluate the types of organisational structure and operational vehicles that can be used to support, for a specified scenario, the delivery of organisational strategy
• Explain and analyse the arrangements required and prepare business plans, for a specified scenario, for an efficient and effective implementation of an organisational strategy
• Evaluate the issues involved in the formulation of an organisation’s financial strategy
  objectives for a specified scenario
• Evaluate the issues involved in the formulation of an organisation’s financial strategies for a
  specified scenario
• Describe and explain the meaning and theories of corporate governance
• Describe and explain the Corporate Governance landscape in Ghana
• Describe and explain the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
• Describe, explain and apply the processes of improving governance in organisations for a specified scenario, as detailed in IFAC’s Evaluating and Improving Governance in Organisations (Good Practice Guidance)