Institute of Business Analytics

Company Registration Number: 200703677E

70 Palmer Road #02-03 Palmer House Singapore 079427 Tel (65) 6100 5538 Fax (65) 6221 2287 Email info@isanalytics.com

Dear i3BAR Participant

Congratulations on your completion of the i3BAR course. Before you embark on
your journey to create amazing models for your i3BAR project submission,
please spend some time to read through the project requirements.
The Project Submission Guidelines
1) Cover page for project submission (see appendix A on page 5)
2) Excel files of your model
3) Self-assessment checklist (checklist.xls)
4) Warranty Letter (see appendix B on page 6)
Please email your project to bar@isanalytics.com and keep the total file size to
within 5 MB. As Item 1 and 4 require signatures, please send them either
through fax or email the scanned copies.
The due date for submission is same day of subsequent month from the last
day of your class. For example, if your last day of class is 16th September 2011,
then your submission date would be 16th October 2011, 5pm local time.
Submission is deemed complete only when you receive a complete project
submission acknowledgment email from us. If you do not hear from us within
the next working day, please email to us again.

Assessment Record i3BAR

To achieve competency, you will need to score higher than the minimum score
of each of the six sections from A to F as indicated on the table above. You will
be awarded the Certificate of Competency. The checklist may give you an
indication of the result; however your project will still be subjected to the
Examiners assessment and reviewed by an independent i3BAR Certification
Committee.
About 8 to 12 weeks after submitting your project, you will receive an email
notification notifying you of your result. Followed by a Certificate of
Competency in your post, please ensure that you complete your mailing
address on the project submission form. The decision by the IBA Certification
Committee shall be final.

Self-Assessment Checklist
This will only give you a good indication but not the final marks, as the marks
indicated are the highest possible for each item, for example, an executive
summary may score anything from 1 mark (a single paragraph description) to
the full marks of 10. Please complete the excel version provided.

Project Scoring
A) Business Relevance
Up to 10 marks will be given awarded based on the relevance and applicability of your
project work to real life business situations.
B) Overall presentation Visuals
You will be awarded up to 10 points vis a vis :
Main Menu,
a clear and consistent spreadsheet layout,
appropriate use of colours.
Navigation system in place hyperlink
Effective communication through tables & graphs
C) Executive Summary
This would be a report that describes the objective and result of your selected project.
You may wish to highlight any unique features or formulas used in your spreadsheet.
You should include one final paragraph on your learning experience in using excel
after the i3BAR course.
This executive summary should be around 500-word reporting on:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Current challenges
Objectives of the model
How does model help the organisation / resolve the challenge
Improvement, achievement or learning gained from building this model
Your learning experience of i3BAR course and this project work

D) Formula Integrity, Completeness

The best way to ensure completeness of the project is to present the model to your
management, and more often than not, previous participants reported that
management were impressed by what they see.

By preparing yourself for this presentation, you would have tested all the major
linkages, interactivity and logic flow, ensuring completeness before submission of the
project work.
For this section, you will be awarded the full 10 points but 2 marks will be deducted for
every mistake, up to a maximum of 8 points.
E) Applying i3BAR Concepts
You should have a minimum of the three distinctive blocks as follows:
Input Block, which is also known as the Data Empire. This block should not contain
any reports or calculation. This is where you store all the raw data downloaded from
ERP system or transferred in from the intermediary files. Generally this block contains
several data tables with range names for easy referencing.
Logic Block, this is where data from Data Empire is processed and calculated. This
block contains only formulas and functions, there should not be any data entry or hard
coded formula. Generally this block will have a sequential layout on how data drawn in
is being processed into useful information to be used in the presentation block.
Presentation Block, also known as the Report, draws data from the data empire and
logic block to present data in a coherent and logical manner. Generally it should be
visually attractive, with the appropriate use of colours, visual charts, dynamic reports
and interactive commentaries.
F) Effective use of Excel Functions
On the last day of your course, your i3BAR trainer would run through with you on what
is expected of each item.
Depending on the complexity, relevance and meaningful applications of these
functions / tools, the appropriate marks will be awarded from 1 point to a maximum of
points as listed in the checklist.

APPENDIX A
Integrated, interactive and intelligent Excel Models for

i Business Analytics & Reporting

i3BAR
PROJECT SUBMISSION FORM
Course Date and Location: __________________________________________________
FULL NAME:
(Name to be printed on Certificate)
POSTAL ADDRESS:
(For mailing of Certificate)
Company Name:

CONTACT DETAILS:
Email
(office)

(Personal)

(office)

(Mobile)

Phone

PROJECT DETAILS
Name / Title:
Brief Description:

SUBMISSION DATE:
(IBA will not accept any submission after the stipulated due date)
SIGNATURE:
Did you include with this submission form
1)
Self-assessment checklist indicating tab names in excel form
2)
Report of at least 500-word in word document or PDF
3)
Signed Warranty Letter printed on company letterhead
4)
All files in soft copy and email to bar@isanalytics.com

APPENDIX B
Sample Warranty Letter
To be typed on company letterhead
Institute of Business Analytics Pte Ltd
70 Palmer Road
#02-03 Palmer House
Singapore 079427

Dear Sirs,
_____________________________________ (Project Name)
With reference to the submission of the project work by Mr/Ms ________________________
(Participants Name) of __________________________________ (Companys Name) for
the certification requirement of the course i3BAR, we have reviewed the project work and are
agreeable to the submission of the above-mentioned project for the Institutes certification
purposes.

Yours sincerely,

_______________________
Name
Designation