Can I take SBL and SBR together?
If you work full time I wouldn't recommend sitting them together as they are both tough exams with large syllabi. I found SBL to be a fairly logical exam and could honestly have had a good go at it without having studied the text.
SBL or Strategic Business Leader covers many different areas, and for many students, it's a bit tough. Students who get exemptions start at the professional stage and struggle a bit more when they get into SBL directly. SBL is a holistic exam because it covers many skillsets and concepts, not just one topic.
Doing Strategic Business Reporting (SBR) first will give you the best chances of success in AAA. Before you attempt the Strategic Professional exams, we recommend studying the Ethics and Professional Skills module.
- Applied Knowledge exams.
- Applied Skills exams. Ethics and Professional Skills Module.
- Strategic Professional (Essentials and Options)
Completing both SBR and SBL in this limited time frame is extremely difficult. Particularly SBR, as it has a huge syllabus.
We recommend covering the complete ACCA Strategic Business Reporting syllabus in nine weeks, so you have three weeks left for revision, practise questions and a mock exam. The ACCA recommend you leave even more than this for revision and final preparation – six weeks total.
I would make a stab at 100 hours. The most of that should be on question practice and careful review of you answers.
In SBL there are four hours (240 minutes) but no additional reading and planning time is given, so time must be allowed for reading and planning.
It suggests 12 weeks on learning the knowledge and concepts of the syllabus and 6 weeks for revision and final preparation. In other words, you need 18 weeks to prepare.
It is open to anyone, but we do recommend some accounting experience before commencing study. An average of 20 hours study would be expected with a single online multiple choice assessment.
What exam to do after SBR?
If you're not going to be doing Advanced Audit Assurance first, and you've just finished Financial Reporting at the Applied Skills level, then go ahead and do SBR followed by SBL, and later work out which of the optional exams you want to start with.
Difficulty level of each paper
As such, from the below table, it can be inferred that F1 (Accountant in Business) is the easiest paper, with the highest pass rate of 85% in June 2019, while P7 (Advanced Audit and Assurance) is the most challenging paper, with the lowest pass rate of 30% in March 2019.
Similarly, you might consider doing SBR alongside AAA, however, ACCA gives clear guidance that you should never sit AAA without doing SBR (before or alongside) as the accounting standards examinable in SBR are also examinable under AAA.
F5 and F9 is not a very good combination. Many people think that they are similar, but they are actually very different and doing them together can cause a lot of confusion. The ACCA suggest that the papers should be taken in order, and that is very sensible.
Students usually fail an exam because they do not have the necessary knowledge OR they have poor exam technique OR a combination of both – the first step to success in studying for your retake is to understand the reason you failed.
The syllabus is assessed by a three- hour fifteen minute examination. It examines professional competences within the business reporting environment. Students will be examined on concepts, theories, and principles, and on their ability to question and comment on proposed accounting treatments.
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The AAA exam tests the knowledge of accounting standards that you should have developed when completing both the Financial Reporting and Strategic Business Reporting courses. Therefore it is essential that you have completed SBR before attempting this paper.
If you have a stripped lower receiver you can register it as a SBR with the ATF.
How do you get professional marks in SBL?
- Communications – Inform. Persuade. Clarify. ...
- Commercial acumen – Demonstrate awareness. Use judgement. Show insight. ...
- Analysis – Investigate. Enquire. Consider. ...
- Scepticism – Probe. Question. Challenge. ...
- Evaluation – Assess. Estimate. Appraise.
- Find a Quiet Study Space.
- Review Your Study Guide.
- Crack Open the Textbook.
- Review Notes, Quizzes and Assignments.
- Quiz Yourself.
- Write Down Your Mnemonic Devices.
- Ask the Teacher for Help.
- plan to study the syllabus content as quickly as possible.
- start practicing case study questions as soon as possible.
- work on your professional skills from the outset.
- attempt each specimen and past exam content in full and to time.
Being a Strategic Professional exam, ACCA Strategic Business Leader is one of the most complex exams in the ACCA portfolio. You take your ACCA exams in module order, so ACCA Strategic Business Leader comes after all Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills papers.
6 weeks might be enough but it depends on your other commitments eg job, family. The best way to study is to go through the notes and lectures then concentrate on question practice.