How to Prepare Business Cases

An essential guide for accountants

Dan Remenyi

• Publisher: CIMA Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781856176668
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080953984
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Accounting
• Index: Business

This book guides accountants through the processes they need to understand to develop and present a high-risk business proposal with success. This compact guide outlines every issue surrounding a business case, from profit benefits and beyond. Will the proposal change the way the business operates, and how can these changes be predicted? What risks are involved, how can they be understood, and how can they be prevented? Who will manage the investment benefit delivery? How can technology be best used to make the venture work? All are explained succinctly and illustrated with case studies, check lists and templates. - Learn which business proposals make good business sense - Learn how to explain to others which business propositions they should invest in - Learn how to present ideas convincingly to senior management

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• About the Authors
• How to Use this Book
• Chapter 1. Why a Business Case for Investment?
• Chapter 2. Different Investment Decisions and the Business Case
• Chapter 3. Preparing a Business Case
• Chapter 4. The Art of Evaluation
• Chapter 5. The Business Outcome
• Chapter 6. The Stakeholders
• Chapter 7. Strategic Alignment and Benefit Identification
• Chapter 8. Technology Issues
• Chapter 9. Risk – Conceptualising and Measuring
• Chapter 10. Business Case Accounting
• Chapter 11. Evaluating a Business Case
• Chapter 12. Using the Business Case as a Project Management Tool
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
• Appendix F
• Appendix G
• Appendix H
• Appendix I Glossary of terms
• Appendix J Bibliography
• Index