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ACCA Strategic Business Leader (SBL) · review course

ACCA-10 · Professional qualifications

CertiFi's review course for ACCA's Strategic Professional exam Strategic Business Leader (SBL), following ACCA's SBL syllabus and study guide for September 2026 to June 2027 (capability areas A–G). Sixteen lessons cover leadership, governance and sustainability, strategy, risk, technology and data analytics, organisational control and audit, and finance in planning and decision-making, with worked examples, answer-planning guidance for the 3 hour 15 minute case-study exam and a bank of original case-based practice questions. Independent preparation course by CertiFi FZ LLC, not endorsed by ACCA.

Who it's for

ACCA students preparing for the SBL integrated case-study exam who want structured lessons, applied worked examples and case-based judgement practice alongside their own timed written answers.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate leadership, culture and ethical behaviour in an organisation and recommend improvements, applying professional ethical codes
  • Assess governance arrangements, stakeholder interests, board effectiveness and reporting to stakeholders, including integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Analyse an organisation's strategic position and evaluate strategic choices and methods of development
  • Identify, assess and recommend responses to strategic, operational and climate-related risks, and evaluate controls, internal audit and IT security
  • Evaluate technology, data analytics and finance transformation proposals and use financial analysis to support strategic decisions
  • Plan and structure SBL answers that earn technical and professional skills marks within the exam time

Lessons

  1. 1The SBL exam, professional skills and qualities of leadershipreading
  2. 2Leadership styles and organisational culturereading
  3. 3Professionalism, ethics, the public interest and fraud preventionreading
  4. 4Agency, stakeholders and approaches to governancereading
  5. 5The board of directors, remuneration and public sector governancereading
  6. 6Reporting to stakeholders: integrated and sustainability reportingreading
  7. 7Strategy concepts and the macro-environmentreading
  8. 8Competitive forces, value chains and strategic capabilityreading
  9. 9Strategic choices and methods of developmentreading
  10. 10Identifying, assessing and measuring riskreading
  11. 11Managing, monitoring and mitigating riskreading
  12. 12Cloud, big data, AI and emerging technologyreading
  13. 13E-business and IT systems security and controlreading
  14. 14Internal control, internal audit and control reportingreading
  15. 15Finance transformation, financing and investment decisionsreading
  16. 16Performance management, cost management and budgetingreading