Analysing Information

Effective analysis of information can reveal how your business is performing and help you make the right business decisions.

This course explores the difference between data and information. It introduces data analysis techniques including ratios, percentages and averages, and explains how these techniques can be used to monitor business performance. It also considers non-numerical information and how to structure and organise documents effectively.

It will help you learn how to gather, interpret, analyse and present business information to identify your business’s key strengths and weaknesses and help identify how it can be improved.

You'll learn how to:

When you have completed this course you will be able to:

• describe the difference between data and information
• use data analysis techniques such as ratios, percentages and averages
• use charts and diagrams to interpret and present numerical information.

How this course can help your business:

• Use information to assess and evaluate business performance
• Make sound business decisions based on accurate information
• Forecast and plan more accurately and effectively
• Build on your business’s strengths and tackle weaknesses

Course Code: 100594BT047