what is business continuity impact analysis 
an important part of developing a bcp is a business continuity impact analysis which identifies the effects of disruption of business functions and processes it also uses the information to make decisions about recovery priorities and strategies fema provides an operational and financial impact worksheet to help run a business continuity analysis these worksheets summarize the impacts both financial and operational that stem from the loss of individual business functions and processes they also identify when the loss of a function or process would result in the identified business impacts 3the bottom linebusiness continuity plans bcps are created to help speed up the recovery of an organization filling a threat or disaster the plan puts in place mechanisms and functions to allow personnel and assets to minimize company downtime bcps cover all organizational risks should a disaster happen such as flood or fire 