Data and Digital

Course Summary

Through three key topics, this course provides practical guidance on the skills needed to be data literate, the importance of building a data literacy culture in an organisation, and strategies for designing and implementing a data strategy.

Key topics

• Focusses on value preservation and creation during times of uncertainty
• Discusses how organisations report value

Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills. 

Learning objectives

• Use strategies, techniques of valuation to provide a base case for value creation or protection.
• Use strategic cost optimisation principles and techniques during increased states of uncertainty.
• Evaluate different contemporary techniques to build resilient supply chains.
• Use contemporary techniques to review and adapt an organisation’s pricing policies to adapt to increased states of uncertainty.
• Discuss the impact of sustainability reporting on creating growth and safeguarding value.

Course Summary

This course will provide finance professionals and leaders with a range of practical cash flow management tools for a broad range of industries and corporations. It will focus on advocating for the introduction of cash-focused thinking across the organisation and empowering the broader finance function to understand and advocate for a cash focused culture.

Featuring examples and real-world application provided by industry experts and financial leaders to embed the learning and bring the content to life, through this course you will gain the requisite tools and techniques that are increasingly important in modern finance roles.

This course features case studies from leading companies including Qantas, Downer, BHP and Apple. It is highly interactive with activities, videos and simulations to keep you actively engaged and will focus on a broad range of industries.

Key topics

Through three key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how to use different analytical methodologies to analyse relationships between variables and datasets, plan, budget and solve business problems, and how to address issues in interpreting data to achieve better outcomes in decision-making. 

• Correlation and regression analysis 
• Forecasting and optimisation models
• Issues in data interpretation

Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills.

Learning objectives

• Analyse data analytics results to inform organisational decision-making
• Advise on common issues in data analytics impacting data results

Course Summary

Through four key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how to select appropriate charts and dashboards for displaying data, eliminate unnecessary detail in data visualisations and draw attention to important information, and tell a powerful story with data to help people remember information and effect change.

Key topics

• Principles of visualisation
• Choosing the right chart
• Dashboards 
• Storytelling with data

Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills.

Learning objectives

• Utilise data visualisation practices and tools to present data for organisational decision-making
• Apply storytelling techniques to communicate data insights to organisational stakeholders

Through five key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how data-analytics decision-making frameworks can be used to provide real value to decision-makers and how to address challenges in data analytics to maintain the quality and integrity of data.

Course Summary

In this course, you will learn about how to apply the fundamental principles and conceptual framework of the International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants. We will also discuss how to address key ethical dilemmas relevant to professional accountants in business and public practice.

Key topics

• Data and decision-making
• Framing the problem, data collection and exploration
• Data modelling
• Evaluation, communication and action
• Challenges in data analytics

Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills. 

Learning objectives

• Apply data analytics to support management decision-making
• Analyse the impacts of challenges in data analytics for organisational decision-making

Key topics

Through four key topics, this course provides practical guidance on how to categorise and organise different types of data for analysis, the fundamental concepts in probability and how they can be used in organisational decision-making and various sampling strategies to form predictions and reach conclusions.

• Data classification
• Probability
• Sampling and confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing

Assessment

CPA Australia will assess how you apply your acquired knowledge against the key learning objectives, allowing you to demonstrate the skills you’ve learned.

When you successfully complete the in-built formal assessment, you’ll receive a digital badge as an endorsement of your new skills. 

Learning objectives

• Apply data concepts in an organisational context
• Apply probability concepts and statistical techniques to inform organisational decision making.