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ACCA Strategic Business Reporting (SBR)

A complete SBR plan: the current syllabus and examinable documents checked, every syllabus area from ethics to groups and current issues, weekly timed written practice, full mocks and a rehearsed exam day.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for ACCA Strategic Business Reporting (SBR), and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🎓 Finance & Business Certifications

ACCA Strategic Business Reporting (SBR)

Preparing for ACCA Strategic Business Reporting: complex group accounts, current IFRS issues, ethical reporting dilemmas and the written explanations examiners reward.

  1. SBR syllabus, exam structure and examinable documents check
  2. Choosing the session you will sit SBR
  3. Sequencing SBR with SBL and your remaining exams
  4. FR to SBR knowledge gap check
  5. SBR study text, question kit and tuition choice
  6. SBR study calendar from today to exam week
  7. Practising in the SBR computer-based exam workspace
  8. Cold baseline on one past SBR question
  9. One-page map of examinable standards
  10. Weekly SBR study block routine
  11. Weekly timed written question
  12. SBR marks lost log
  13. Examiner's reports and marking guides routine
  14. SBR technical articles reading list
  15. Standards flashcards with application triggers
  16. Monthly SBR progress review
  17. Current issues watch on IASB and ISSB projects
  18. Answer swap with an SBR study partner
  19. Ethical dilemmas in financial reporting
  20. Conceptual Framework as an answer tool
  21. Revenue recognition in complex contracts
  22. Non-current assets, impairment and held for sale
  23. Leases including sale and leaseback
  24. Financial instruments for SBR
  25. Employee benefits and share-based payment
  26. Provisions, events after the reporting period and deferred tax
  27. Fair value, related parties and segment disclosures
  28. Control, joint arrangements and associates
  29. Step acquisitions, disposals and changes in ownership
  30. Foreign subsidiaries in group accounts
  31. Group statement of cash flows
  32. Alternative performance measures and stakeholder needs
  33. Sustainability and integrated reporting in SBR
  34. Policy changes, first-time adoption and IFRS for SMEs
  35. Writing explanations that earn SBR marks
  36. Professional skills marks practice
  37. Section A group case technique
  38. First full SBR mock under exam conditions
  39. Getting an SBR mock professionally marked
  40. Weak topic recovery after the first mock
  41. Deciding whether to sit this session or defer
  42. Final six weeks SBR revision plan
  43. SBR exam day plan and centre logistics
  44. SBR results and next step
  45. SBR while working in group reporting
  46. SBR through an audit busy season
  47. SBR study as a parent or carer
  48. SBR retake plan after a near miss
  49. Briefing your finance team on a new IFRS
  50. Reading a listed group's annual report through SBR eyes

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

SBR syllabus, exam structure and examinable documents check

ACCA updates the SBR syllabus and study guide for each exam year and publishes an examinable documents list naming the standards and exposure drafts your session can test, so a study text or forum post from an earlier year can be wrong about what counts.

First tasks

  • Download the current SBR syllabus and study guide from ACCA's website
  • Write the exam structure down exactly as ACCA describes it for your session
  • Save the examinable documents list and highlight standards you did not meet in FR
  • Recheck ACCA's SBR pages for syllabus and examinable document changes @recurring(quarterly)

Choosing the session you will sit SBR

Strategic Professional exams run on a published session timetable with entry windows, and late entry usually costs more. Most candidates need several months of steady study for SBR on top of a job, so picking the session by counting real study weeks, not hopes, is the first decision that protects the attempt.

First tasks

  • Look up the next two SBR sessions and entry deadlines in your ACCA account
  • Count study weeks to each session after removing work peaks and holidays
  • Enter the exam in the cheapest entry window still open
  • Save the entry confirmation and centre address in your study folder

Sequencing SBR with SBL and your remaining exams

Many candidates sit SBR before or alongside Strategic Business Leader, and ACCA's guidance on the order of Strategic Professional exams affects how later papers build on SBR's reporting knowledge. Deciding the order now, with your employer's study leave and any ACCA rules on completing the level in view, stops SBR being squeezed into a session it does not fit.

First tasks

  • Read ACCA's guidance on the recommended order of Strategic Professional exams
  • List your remaining exams and the session you are aiming for with each
  • Decide whether to sit SBR alone or alongside another exam and note why
  • Check ACCA's current rules on time limits for the Strategic Professional level

Make it yours.

Install ACCA Strategic Business Reporting (SBR), then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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