Polytechnic University of the Philippines

COLLEGE OF COOPERATIVES & SOCIAL

DEVELOPMENT
Mabini Campus, Sta. Mesa, Manila
Tel. 716-7832 to 45 loc. 316
http://www.pup.edu.ph/cc/
e-mail: college_of_cooperatives@yahoo.com

COURSE SYLLABUS IN
COOP 4103 – BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND POLICY FORMULATION

PUP VISION

Towards a Total University

PUP MISSION

The mission of PUP in the 21st Century is to provide the highest quality of comprehensive
and global education and community services accessible to all students, Filipinos and foreigners
alike.

It shall offer high quality undergraduate and graduate programs that are responsive to the
changing needs of the students to enable them to lead productive and meaningful lives.

PUP shall maintain its traditional mission based on its founding philosophy at the same
time propose additional changes that will greatly enhance the realization of the mission in the
context of a global society.

PUP commits itself to:

1. Democratize access to educational opportunities;

2. Promote science and technology consciousness and develop relevant expertise and
competence among all members of the academe, stressing their importance in building a
truly independent and sovereign Philippines;

3. Emphasize the unrestrained and unremitting search for truth and its defense, as well as
the advancement of moral and spiritual values;

4. Promote awareness of our beneficial and relevant cultural heritage;

5. Develop in the students and faculty the values of self-discipline, love of country and social
consciousness and the need to defend human rights;

6. Provide its students and faculty with a liberal arts-based education essential to a broader
understanding and appreciation of life and to the total development of the individual;

7. Make the students and faculty aware of technological, social as well as political and
economic problems and encourage them to contribute to the realization of nationalist
industrialization and economic development of the country;

8. Use and propagate the national language and other Philippine languages and develop
proficiency in English and other foreign languages required by the students’ fields of
specialization;

9. Promote intellectual leadership and sustain a humane and technologically advanced

academic community where people of diverse ideologies work and learn together to attain
academic, research and service excellence in a continually changing world; and

10. Build a learning community in touch with the main currents of political, economic and
cultural life throughout the world; a community enriched by the presence of a significant
number of international students; and a community supported by new technologies that
facilitate active participation in the creation and use of information and knowledge on a
global scale.

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PUP –CCSD VISION:

A proactive exponent in PUP’s creation of a humanist, just and empowering

environment.

PUP – CCSD MISSION:

To respond to the growing need for relevant and continuing cooperative education and
services geared towards economic self-reliance, social responsibility and cooperativism as a
way of life.

PUP-CCSD GOALS

1. Promote and strengthen the country’s cooperative education both formal and
informal.
2. Provide a nationalist, scientific, democratic and pro-people education.
3. Strengthen and broaden research programs.
4. Enhance competence and expertise among faculty members.
5. Exhibit virtues of social discipline and self-reliance.
6. Make the College one of the most adequate training centers in the country.

PUP-CCSD OBJECTIVES

1. produce cooperative specialists with high degree of competence and expertise

in their chosen field of specialization

2. provide students specialized skills and deepen their value- and principle-based
foundation for effective cooperative promotion, organization and development

3. increase the responsiveness of program to the present and emerging

requirements of the cooperative sector

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I. Course Title: BUSINESS ANALYSIS & POLICY FORMULATION

II. Course Code: COOP 4103

III. Course Credit: Three (3) units

IV. Course Pre-requisite: COOP 4073, COOP 4023, COOP 3103, COOP 4206,
COOP 4233

V. Total No. of Wks./Hrs.: 18 Wks./54Hrs.

VI. Course Description:

The course – Business Analysis and Policy Formulation introduces students to the
discipline of creating knowledge for business analysis and policy making process of
cooperative enterprise. It seeks to equip students with analytical skills to investigate causes,
consequences and performance of cooperative enterprise and program policies.

Furthermore, it seeks to equip students with communication skills to make Business

Analysis and Policy Formulation knowledge available to cooperatives’ policy makers, the
cooperative sector and the public in general.

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VII. Course Objectives:

After completing this subject, the students should be able to:

a. Understand clearly the significance of Business Analysis and Policy

Formulation as a component of business planning management, and
development.
b. Acquire a comprehensive knowledge and skill in doing business analysis and
relating its significant role in the policy review and formulation process for
cooperative enterprise.
c. Acquire comprehensive knowledge and skill in doing policy analysis and
communicating policy reports to principal users-coop policy-makers, coop
sector and public clients.

VIII. Course Orientation:

The course orientation is done on the first meeting of the class with the Course
Syllabus given to each student. Orientation covers the following:

- Discussion of the PUP Philosophy

- Discussion of CCSD Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives
- Course Objectives and coverage
- Teaching Methodologies
- Learning Activities
- Course Requirements
- Evaluation Techniques
- Grading System
- Leveling off (student expectations)

IX. Course Content: Time/Duration

I. Business Analysis as essential component of Business

Planning and Development (9 hours)

Basic Components of Business Analysis

1. Exploratory Component
2. Diagnostic Component
3. Planning Component
B. The Benefits of Business Analysis through various Business Environments
1. Benefits from knowing/gathering/understanding
member-partners/customer’s needs in product development.
2. Business Analysis as a tool for business improvement

II. The Business Analysis Process (12 hours)

A. Key elements
1. Identification of client/organization needs/expectations and roles in the
business and process
2. Definition of expected outcomes (value-added)
3. Definition of terms and concepts (sharing of common language by the
analyst and the clients)

B. The Analyst’s Roles

1. Roles of Internal Analyst
2. Roles of External Analyst
3. 18 Important Points to Remember in Conducting Business Analysis

C. Approaches
1. Structured/Formal
2. Informal
3. Problem – specific/diagnostic

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 4. Area specific
5. Comprehensive

III. Defining the Scope or Coverage of Business Analysis (9 hours.)

A. Review of Business and Organizational Elements in a Cooperative Organization

1. VMGO Setting /Review/Reformulation
2. Member’s Participation and Development
3. Business Operations and Development
4. Structures, Systems and Procedures
5. Linkages
B. The Business Analysis Report
1. Reporting the good, the bad, and the ugly
2. Sample Business Analysis Report Format
3. Developing a Business Analysis Design

IV. Tools that can be Useful in Business Analysis (6 hours.)

A. Financial Ratios
B. Strategic Plans, Business Plans, Practical/Short-term Plans
C. Written Policies and Procedures, Manuals
D. Annual Reports and Feasibility Study
E. Minutes of Meetings (other documents)
F. Standards (set by the industry or profession)
G. Coop Movement, Law

V. Business Policy Formulation and Analysis (18 hours.)

A. Defining Policy Formulation / Analysis

B. Components of Policy Formulation and Analysis
C. Steps in Policy Analysis

X. Suggested Learning Activities

Learning Activities

Value Integration Case Studies on:

a. Business Ethics
b. Organization Values and Social Responsibilities

Appreciation of Filipino
Heritage, Culture and
Case Studies on:
Tradition

a. Filipino Culture and Native Business Practices

Corrective Measures Small group case analysis.

Enrichment Activities Critique/Analysis of Business Analysis and Policies articles

by Economic policy-makers and Business experts in
Newspapers, Journals and Magazines

XI. Evaluation Techniques:

Weekly/Monthly Quizzes
Prelim, Midterm and Final Exam
One (1) Class Report based from the topic in the syllabus
Class attendance
Submission of a term paper on Cooperative Business Policy Making process

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XII. Teaching Methodologies
- Reporting
- Input/Discussion/Class Interaction
- Term Papers Preparation
- Exercises

XIII. Grading System:

40% Class Standing/ Class Participation/ Class Interaction

30% Class Reports, Term Paper
30% Examinations/ Quizzes

XIV. References:

Chesnick, D. (2000). Financial management and ratio analysis for cooperative

enterprises. Research Report 175. US Department of Agriculture.

Dunn, W. (1994). Public policy analysis: an introduction. New Jersey: Prentice Hall,
Inc.

Landbank Countryside Development Foundation, Inc. (2004). Trainer’s manual on

cooperative entrepreneurship for board of directors. Revised edition. Makati
City: Landbank Countryside Development Foundation, Inc.

Santarin, A. (2011). Mainstreaming financial services: perspectives of operating

cooperatives in Cavite. Philippine Cooperative Research Journal, Vol. 1, June
2011. Cavite: Cooperative Union of Cavite.

Websites:
www.neda.gov.ph
http://www.business-analysis-made-easy.com/
http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/pdf/BalanceShtRatios.pdf

Prepared by: Noted by:

[SGD] ALEX L. SACLAYAN HERMINIA E. MANIMTIM, DEM

Professor Area Chairperson

Approved by:

Sr. MARIETTA P. DEMELINO, SFCC, Ph.D.

Dean

Date of Latest Revision: July 2011