Introduction
The programme “Evaluating New Blockchain-Based Digital Currency Projects” develops professional practice in Investment. It connects the subject with workplace challenges by examining existing evidence and practices and choosing methods appropriate to the organization and its available resources.
The learning progresses from information systems analysis, integration, and service management to financial statement and report analysis, with practical work on project planning and implementation control, designing digital transformation and developing services, investment appraisal and scenario development. Participants prepare outputs to support workplace application and review the quality and results of implementation.
Learning objectives
- Analyze information system requirements and design acceptance, integration, and operational criteria in an application related to “Evaluating New Blockchain-Based Digital Currency Projects”.
- Prepare a project plan connecting scope, time, resources, and risks.
- Assess digitization opportunities and define implementation requirements that improve a service or process.
- Compare investment opportunities according to expected returns, risks, liquidity, and assumptions.
- Interpret performance, financial position, and cash flows using documented analysis with clear limitations.
Learning areas
1. Information Systems Analysis, Integration, and Service Management
- Analyze system users, processes, and the decisions it supports, translating needs into clear functional and nonfunctional requirements.
- Model data flows, entities, relationships, and interfaces, identifying each data item's source and the party responsible for its quality and updating.
- Compare build, buy, integration, and hosting alternatives according to constraints, security, total cost, and available support capabilities.
- Design test cases covering performance, permissions, usability, and integration, and connect each test to a testable acceptance criterion.
- Prepare a transition, operations, support, change management, and backup plan, defining indicators for service availability, fault resolution, and improvement review. The application examines a case related to “Evaluating New Blockchain-Based Digital Currency Projects”.
2. Project Planning and Implementation Control
- Define the project rationale, expected results, stakeholders, and success criteria, and document the scope of work and exclusions.
- Break deliverables into work packages and related activities, and estimate durations, resources, and activity dependencies.
- Prepare a schedule and cost baseline, identify delivery and review milestones, and clarify approval and escalation responsibilities.
- Analyze implementation risks, define responses and warning indicators, and control change requests and their effects on time and cost.
- Build a progress report covering variances, decisions, and lessons learned, and define procedures for accepting deliverables and closing the project.
3. Designing Digital Transformation and Developing Services
- Distinguish information digitization, step automation, and business model transformation, and identify the problem targeted by the digital intervention.
- Map the beneficiary journey, touchpoints, and repeated data requests, and identify opportunities for simplification before selecting technology.
- Analyze readiness across procedures, skills, data, and technical infrastructure, and document gaps and dependencies on existing systems.
- Specify solution, integration, access permission, usability, and accessibility requirements, and establish testable acceptance criteria.
- Design a limited-scope pilot with indicators for time, quality, and use, and define conditions for continuing, adjusting, or stopping.
4. Investment Appraisal and Scenario Development
- Define the investment objective, time horizon, constraints, and risk tolerance, separating organizational objectives from individual preferences.
- Collect cash flow, cost, demand, and financing data, document sources, and distinguish actual historical data from forecasts.
- Compare appraisal methods suited to the case, examining discount rate, growth, and terminal value assumptions and the comparability of alternatives.
- Conduct sensitivity and scenario analysis for risk, liquidity, and concentration, stating that estimated results do not guarantee future returns.
- Prepare a decision memo presenting the benefits and risks of alternatives and the gaps requiring further due diligence before an investment decision.
5. Financial Statement and Report Analysis
- Read the relationships between the statements of financial position, performance, and cash flows and the notes, identifying the effects of accounting policies and estimates.
- Perform horizontal and vertical analysis and compare profitability, liquidity, efficiency, and leverage indicators, considering the nature and size of the business.
- Examine earnings quality, cash flows, and nonrecurring items, and identify differences between accounting results and actual liquidity.
- Test the sensitivity of results to changes in sales, costs, collections, and financing, stating the assumptions and constraints in each scenario.
- Write a financial report linking indicators to management's question and available alternatives, presenting risks and additional data needed for the decision.
Practical outputs
- A requirements document, data flow map, and testing and acceptance plan.
- A project charter, implementation schedule, and change and risk tracking register.
- A digital transformation roadmap covering the beneficiary journey and implementation requirements.
- An investment appraisal model, sensitivity analysis, and memo comparing alternatives.
- A comparative financial analysis report and a memo of findings and assumptions.
Who should attend
- Practitioners, specialists and supervisors whose work relates to the programme subject.
- Managers and teams working in investment, according to their practical responsibilities.
- Professionals responsible for applying the outputs of “Evaluating New Blockchain-Based Digital Currency Projects” within their organizations.
Prerequisites
- Working familiarity with the programme field and the ability to discuss a professional case or challenge.
- Confirm the suitability of your experience and any specialist prerequisites with the Union before participation.
Conclusion
The programme “Evaluating New Blockchain-Based Digital Currency Projects” brings together concepts, case review and a practical application. Participants prepare steps that can be adapted to their responsibilities and organizational resources, with an indicator to follow application and review results after returning to work.
Participation arrangements and any special requests are specified in the confirmation issued by the Union.
