This week’s topics
Data Infrastructure and External Influences
- Financial versus non-financial data sources
- ERP systems and big data
- Macroeconomic and regulatory pressures
- Competitive benchmarking
- External Influences on Organisational Performance - ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
- Non-Financial Performance Measurement - ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
- Types of Benchmarking Processes for Business Strategy
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Determine appropriate sources of information and data to carry out performance measurement.
- 1.4 Analyse external factors that impact on performance measurement.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: determine appropriate sources of information and data to carry out performance measurement.
Study materials
Videos
- External Influences on Organisational Performance - ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 44 min · for registered students
- Non-Financial Performance Measurement - ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 18 min · for registered students
- Types of Benchmarking Processes for Business Strategy · YouTube · Professor Wolters · 7 min · for registered students
- Perspectives series: Ramping up systems and processes for sustainability data · YouTube · IFRS Foundation · 54 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Managerial Accounting, ch. 13: How Do Managers Use Financial and Nonfinancial Performance Measures? · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 883–972 · for registered students
- Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), ch. 8: Business Processes · PDF · Other, textbook chapter · for registered students
- Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 1.2: Understanding the business environment · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 16–19 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
