ACCA – Strategic Business Leader (SBL)
Live Online | 6-day Intensive and Interactive Training | ACCA Exam Preparatory Course
Strategic Business Leader is part of the ACCA Strategic Professional training programme.
It covers topics such as leadership, corporate governance, strategy and risk management, modern technologies, and data analysis. The program also includes audit and control from the point of view of the management board, financial planning and change management.
The course structure comprises a two-day introductory session to provide participants with a context. This is followed by a two-day midterm session. Before the exam, there is a longer revision session where candidates practice answering exam questions and dedicate an entire day to studying the pre-seen exam materials, which are released two weeks before the actual exam. During this time, students will thoroughly analyse the materials with their tutor, who will provide support and guidance to help them prepare effectively for their upcoming exam.
Our training days run from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (CET).
For additional savings, this course can be booked as part of a package offer.
This training programme is tailored for aspiring ACCA professionals who are keen to excel as a Strategic Business Leader.
It goes beyond exam preparation by equipping students with the practical skills, strategic insight, and real-world experience needed to thrive in today’s complex business environment. Participants will not only be fully prepared to pass their exams but will also develop a deep, applicable understanding of modern management that can be immediately applied in their careers.
Objectives
This course is focused on developing leadership skills and strategic management in a business context.
By the end of this course, participants will obtain deeper understanding of:
- Leadership
- Governance, stakeholder analysis
- Strategy and risk management
- Technology and data analytics
- Organisational control, audit and compliance systems
- Finance in planning and decision-making
- Enabling success and change management
Benefits
Participants will benefit from our proven training methodology:
- Live Online Interactive Training: Highly interactive, practical training courses. The live lessons are recorded and can be used for revision and self-study.
- Exam-focused Training: Training sessions are tailored to help students prepare for the ACCA Exam and focus on the students’ individual needs.
- Master Exam Technique: We embed exam strategy into every session i.e.
- Learn to identify opportunities for marks that you could potentially score
- Structure answers clearly
- Use keywords effectively
- Plan responses under pressure
- Explain calculations, not just do them
- Exam Practice: Every session feels like a practice exam with coaching. You’ll cover large parts of the syllabus in a single day through intensive, interactive, and skills-based learning.
- Reduce the hours needed for Self-Study: Our approach is highly focused, motivating, and efficient. You’ll stay engaged and build confidence fast.
- On Exam Day, You’ll Feel at Home: Our objective is that the exam feels like just another session with us — no surprises, no panic, just performance.
- ACCA/Equivalent Qualified Instructors: Highly experienced professionals with the technical expertise necessary to address the required knowledge requirements of the ACCA syllabus.
- Course Materials: These include practical questions and in-class notes designed to support your exam preparation.
A. Leadership
- Qualities of leadership
- Leadership and organisational culture
- Professionalism, ethical codes and the public interest
B. Governance and sustainability
- Agency
- Stakeholder analysis and organisational social responsibility
- Governance scope and approaches
- Reporting to stakeholders
- The board of directors
- Public sector governance
C. Strategy
- Concepts of strategy
- Environmental issues
- Competitive forces
- The internal resources, capabilities and competences of an organisation
- Strategic choices
D. Risk
- Identification, assessment and measurement of risk
- Managing, monitoring and mitigating risk
E. Technology and data analytics
- Cloud, mobile and smart technology
- Big data and data analytics
- Machine learning, AI and robotics
- E- business: value chain
- IT systems security and control
F. Organisational control and audit
- Management and internal control systems
- Audit and compliance
- Internal control and management reporting
G. Finance in planning and decision-making
- Finance transformation
- Financial analysis and decision-making techniques
- Cost and management accounting
H. Enabling success and change management
- Enabling success: organising
- Enabling success: disruptive technologies
- Enabling success: talent management
- Enabling success: performance excellence
- Managing strategic change
- Leading and managing projects
I. Professional skills
- Communication
- Commercial acumen
- Analysis
- Scepticism
- Evaluation
- 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 appropriate tools.
- Present data and information effectively, using the appropriate tools.
Georgia Sophocleous - distinguished and highly experienced professional delivering comprehensive training in financial and managerial accounting as well as in strategic business leadership, for the ACCA Qualification and Postgraduate Studies in Poland and internationally.
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