Overview

Prepare for the ACCA Strategic Business Leader (SBL) examination with this comprehensive revision course designed for the September 2025 sitting. Master the application of leadership and ethical skills to establish organizational culture and promote value creation from a whole-organization perspective. Evaluate governance systems and agency relationships while understanding board responsibilities toward stakeholders, including social responsibilities and reporting requirements. Develop strategic analysis capabilities to assess organizational positioning against external environments and internal resources, enabling identification of feasible strategic options. Learn to analyze organizational risk profiles and strategic alternatives within responsible risk management frameworks. Apply information technologies and data analytics to examine value chain factors, identify strategic opportunities, and implement options with robust IT security controls. Examine management reporting, internal control, and audit systems to ensure compliance and objective achievement while safeguarding organizational assets. Utilize advanced financial techniques from Applied Skills examinations in strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation processes. Enable organizational success through innovative thinking, best-in-class strategies, and disruptive technologies while managing change initiatives, leading projects, and effectively managing talent and business resources. Integrate professional skills throughout strategic leadership scenarios in preparation for both the examination and practical work experience applications.

Syllabus

Apply excellent leadership and ethical skills to set the ‘tone from the top’ and promote a positive culture within the organisation, adopting a whole organisation perspective in managing performance and value creation.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the governance and agency system of an organisation and recognise the responsibility of the board or other agents towards their stakeholders, including the organisation’s social responsibilities and the reporting implications.
Evaluate the strategic position of the organisation against the external environment and the availability of internal resources, to identify feasible strategic options
Analyse the risk profile of the organisation and of any strategic options identified, within a culture of responsible risk management.
Select and apply appropriate information technologies and data analytics, to analyse factors affecting the organisation’s value chain to identify strategic opportunities and implement strategic options within a framework of robust IT security controls
Evaluate management reporting and internal control and audit systems to ensure compliance and the achievement of organisation’s objectives and the safeguarding of organisational assets
Apply high level financial techniques from the Applied Skills exams in the planning, implementation and evaluation of strategic options and actions.
Enable success through innovative thinking, applying best in class strategies and disruptive technologies in the management of change; initiating, leading and organising projects,while effectively managing talent and other business resources
Apply a range of Professional Skills in addressing requirements within the Strategic Leader examination and in preparation for, or to support, current work experience