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ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM) · review course
ACCA-13 · Professional qualifications
CertiFi's review course for ACCA's Strategic Professional option exam Advanced Performance Management (APM). It follows ACCA's APM syllabus and study guide for September 2026 to June 2027 (areas A–D): strategic performance management and value creation, performance optimisation, performance reporting, and data science and technology, with worked examples, an answer-planning method and a large 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 APM session CBE who want structured lessons, worked examples and case-based judgement practice for the written exam.
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate how mission, strategy, stakeholders and risk shape performance measurement, using frameworks such as the Balanced Scorecard, the Performance Pyramid and benchmarking
- Calculate and evaluate financial and divisional measures, including ROCE, TSR, EBITDA, NPV, ROI, residual income and EVA
- Assess budgeting methods, variance analysis, reward systems and improvement techniques such as ABM, BPR, target costing, Six Sigma and TQM
- Apply performance management to services, not-for-profit organisations, alliances, supply chains and service level agreements
- Evaluate management reports, data visualisations and narrative commentary, and recommend improvements
- Advise on information systems, data analytics, machine learning and the related risks and ethical issues
Lessons
- 1The APM exam and strategic performance managementreading
- 2Stakeholders, strategy analysis and riskreading
- 3The performance hierarchy, scorecards and benchmarkingreading
- 4Financial performance measurementreading
- 5Divisional performance: ROI, RI, EVA and transfer pricingreading
- 6Non-financial performance and sustainabilityreading
- 7Budgeting methods and beyond budgetingreading
- 8Variance analysis, planning and operational variances and learning curvesreading
- 9Performance and rewardreading
- 10Value chain, value-based management, ABM and BPRreading
- 11Quality and cost improvement techniquesreading
- 12Services, not-for-profit organisations and complex structuresreading
- 13Evaluating management reportsreading
- 14Data visualisation and narrative commentaryreading
- 15Technology and information systemsreading
- 16Big data, data science and analyticsreading