Taken from Treatise: On Business Analysis, the Nature and Evolution of the Profession By Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP  (Go to http://www.iiba.org/ba-connect/2014/june/business-analysts-are-systems-analysts.aspx to read the original article) We...

By Tathagata (Tat) Biswas, Consultant, UXC Consulting, Sydney, Australia (Go to http://www.iiba.org/ba-connect/2014/june/do-bas-solve-or-avert-business-problems.aspx to read the original article) The widely accepted role of a Business Analyst is...

We spend a lot of our lives planning: what to do for a living, where to work, how to progress, where to live, who to live with, whether to have kids or not, how many kids, how to spend our weekends... the list goes on and on. Financial planning is no different. Sound financial planning is of utmost importance and one of the most daunting decisions you will have to make is who you will entrust to advise you on these issues and manage your personal financial portfolio.