ACCA Strategic Professional Essentials package
Course Code
EXP040
Begin the final stages of working towards your ACCA qualification and chartered accountant membership with this ACCA Strategic Professional Essentials package.
- Continue working towards achieving a prestigious qualification that is respected globally thanks to their reputation for excellence with this ACCA Strategic Professional Essentials package.
- Stand out to potential employers and demonstrate your technical skills, strategic thinking, and commitment to your career.
- Take advantage of the ACCA's dedicated 24-hour support service if you have any questions or need advice during your studies.
Course overview
This ACCA Strategic Professional Essentials package allows you to begin the final stages of achieving your ACCA Complete qualification. The first module included is the ACCA SBL P1 Strategic Business Leader module is designed to develop your organisational leadership and consultancy capabilities. During this course, you’ll learn more about strategic positioning, management reporting, and how to ensure success through innovative thinking. The second module included in this package is the ACCA Strategic Business Reporting ACCA SBR P2 module, which is designed to help you understand how to prepare corporate reports. During this course, you’ll learn how to conduct ethical assessments of management’s leadership, applying professional judgment to financial reporting, and how to communicate the impact of changes to accounting regulations on financial reporting.
To complete the Strategic Professional level of the ACCA qualification, you will also need to choose two of the following optional modules:
- ACCA AFM P4 Advanced Financial Management
- ACCA APM P5 Advanced Performance Management
- ACCA AAA P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance
Read our guide to the ACCA course and modules.
Course Duration
Varies depending on enrolment date.
Course Outcome
On successful completion of your exam, you will receive a pass in the ACCA SBL P1 Strategic Business Leader module and ACCA SBR P2 Strategic Business Reporting modules. This pass will count towards the full ACCA qualification.
Entry Requirements
To study this course, you must have successfully completed both the ACCA Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills exams.
Assessment
A mixture of progress tests and mock exams to prepare you for your exam. You will need to sit the ACCA exam at the end of this course to pass and continue working towards your qualification.
Course content
ACCA Strategic Business Leader ACCA SBL P1 module
- Qualities of leadership
- Leadership and organisational culture
- Professionalism, ethical codes, and the public interest
- Agency
- Stakeholder analysis and organisational social responsibility
- Governance scope and approaches
- Reporting to stakeholders
- The board of directors
- Public sector governance
- Concepts of strategy
- Environmental issues
- Competitive forces
- The internal resources, capabilities, and competencies of an organisation
- Strategic choices
- Identification, assessment, and measurement of risk
- Managing, monitoring, and mitigating risk
- Cloud and mobile technology
- Big data and data analytics
- E-business: value chain
- IT systems security and control
- Management and internal control systems
- Audit and compliance
- Internal control and management reporting
- Finance introduction
- Financial analysis and decision-making techniques
- Cost and management accounting
- Enabling success: organising
- Enabling success: disruptive technologies
- Enabling success: talent management
- Enabling success: performance excellence
- Managing strategic change
- Innovation and change management
- Leading and managing projects
- Communication
- Commercial acumen
- Analysis
- Scepticism
- Evaluation
ACCA Strategic Business Reporting ACCA SBR P2 module
- Professional and ethical behaviour in corporate reporting
- The applications, strengths, and weaknesses of the accounting framework
- Revenue
- Non-current assets
- Financial instruments
- Leases
- Employee benefits
- Income taxes
- Provisions, contingencies, and events after the reporting date
- Share-based payment
- Fair Value Measurement
- Reporting requirements of small entities
- Other reporting issues
- Group accounting including statements of cash flows
- Associates and joint arrangements
- Changes in group structures
- Foreign transactions and entities
- Analysis and interpretation of financial information and measurement of performance
- Discussion of solutions to current issues in financial reporting
- Use computer technology to efficiently access and manipulate relevant information
- Work on relevant response options, using available functions and technology, as would be required in the workplace
- Navigate windows and computer screens to create and amend responses to exam requirements, using the appropriate tools
- Present data and information effectively, using the appropriate tools
Extra info
Assessment
During this course, you will complete a number of progress tests and mock exams in preparation for your exam. You will need to sit an exam at the end of this module in order to achieve a pass.
Exams are not included in the cost of this course. You will need to book and pay for your exams directly with ACCA.
Course duration
Course duration varies depending on when you enrol and start the course.
Study method
This course is offered on a distance learning basis, meaning you will have access to your required study materials. You will also have unlimited support from your personal tutor via email. Studying via distance learning means you can fit your studies around your commitments and progress at your own pace.
Course outcome
On successful completion of your exam, will receive a pass in the ACCA SBL P1 Strategic Business Leader and ACCA SBR P2 Strategic Business Reporting modules. This pass will count towards your overall ACCA membership and qualification.
Awarding body
ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) are a global body for professional accountants based on international accounting standards. It is currently the world’s largest accountancy body, with nearly 700,000 members and students in 180 countries.
With a network of 83 offices and active centres around the world, the ACCA also have 57 global accountancy partnerships. Within Europe, they are a recognised supervisory body for the purposes of licensing auditors and finance professionals in the European Union.
Q&As
You will need to have successfully completed the exams for both the ACCA Applied Knowledge and ACCA Applied Skills qualifications.
Equivalent qualifications may be accepted. Further information on these can be found on the ACCA website.
Proof of your qualifications must be provided when registering with ACCA as a student.
To achieve the full ACCA qualification, you will need to complete a total of 36 months of work experience in a relevant accounting or finance role. This work will need to be supervised and signed off by a practical experience supervisor.
You can start your work experience at any time and can continue gaining experience after completion of your exams.
- Online learning platform
- Video tutorials and webinars
- Exam kit and progress tests
- Personal study plan
- Dedicated personal tutor support
- Dedicated learner services
- FREE CV critique service
- FREE employability guide to help you impress future employers
- FREE XO Student Discounts membership
Registration fees and exams are not included in the cost of this course. You will need to book and pay for these directly with ACCA.
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