How good is to become Business Analyst having said that I have experience in? Accounts payable and receivable for 4 years and audit for 1 year?

I would suggest you consider Project Accounting, GL Posting to settle you career as Functional Business Analyst. Good insight into ERP tools like peoplesoft and oracle Apps will help you to be a successful Business System Analyst. Additional knowledge in understanding the business rules, business flow, navigation would be critical to getting succeeded in Finance and IT Accounting functions. read less

Business Analysis is for individuals who want to work with any business and to understand how the business runs. Also, if business wants to work on new/changed initiatives of the business then to make such changes to the way business works the Business Analysts will be required. It does not matter which industry/sector you are from. SO the answer is you can become business analyst. read less

Analytics is a domain of predictions using research mindset and data crunching. Knowing domain is very good because it will help you the process and how to generate good results and how to minimize or eliminate the bad results. But, the greatest attribute you need to have the research mindset and through this mindset you can discover new avenues in the domain, that's what you are required to do in analytics. Learning business analytics is just not learning the tools and algorithms, but the way you approach the problem, discover the solutions, apply mathematics on the solutions and generate the predictions or minimize the issues in the business or any other areas of application. Make a judicious decision when you adopt the learning partner. read less