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ACCA Strategic Professional Options

Two ACCA options chosen for your career and passed: the rules and variants checked, AFM, APM, ATX or AAA studied block by block, weekly timed questions, mocks, exam day and the next step.

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

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for ACCA Strategic Professional Options, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🎓 Finance & Business Certifications

ACCA Strategic Professional Options

Choosing and passing two ACCA options from Advanced Financial Management, Advanced Performance Management, Advanced Taxation and Advanced Audit and Assurance.

  1. Strategic Professional options rules and syllabus check
  2. Choosing your two options against your career plan
  3. Brought-forward knowledge check from FM, PM, TX and AA
  4. ATX and AAA variant check for your country
  5. Sequencing the options with SBR and SBL
  6. Booking your first option exam session
  7. Study materials and tuition for your options
  8. Weekly study hours budget for two options
  9. Option study calendar from first chapter to exam
  10. Exam software workspace practice with specimen exams
  11. Weekly options study block routine
  12. Weekly timed question under exam conditions
  13. Lost marks error log for both options
  14. Examiner's reports and approach articles routine
  15. Current developments reading for your options
  16. Formula, rates and standards recall sheet
  17. Monthly options progress review
  18. AFM senior adviser role and advanced investment appraisal
  19. AFM acquisitions, mergers and business valuation
  20. AFM currency and interest rate risk management
  21. AFM reconstruction, reorganisation and financing choices
  22. APM strategic planning and the performance hierarchy
  23. APM performance measurement models and the balanced scorecard
  24. APM divisional performance, transfer pricing and not-for-profit
  25. APM information systems, data and reporting to the board
  26. ATX personal taxes and employment planning
  27. ATX capital gains and wealth transfer taxes
  28. ATX company tax, groups and overseas operations
  29. ATX indirect taxes, ethics and letters to clients
  30. AAA regulation, ethics and practice management
  31. AAA planning and risk in complex audits
  32. AAA evidence on complex accounting areas
  33. AAA completion, review and the auditor's report
  34. AAA non-audit assignments and due diligence
  35. Answer planning for the compulsory Section A case
  36. Professional skills marks in the options exams
  37. Weak syllabus area recovery plan
  38. Switching an option after a change of plan
  39. First full timed mock for your option
  40. Final month revision plan for your option
  41. Exam day plan and test centre logistics
  42. Results day and next exam decision
  43. Options while working in an audit or tax practice
  44. Options from an industry or public sector finance role
  45. Options as a full-time student or recent graduate
  46. Employer sponsorship and study leave for the options
  47. Retake plan after an unsuccessful option attempt
  48. Matching options to your PER technical objectives
  49. Workplace case write-up using your option
  50. Coaching an Applied Skills student in your option subject

Where it starts.

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

Strategic Professional options rules and syllabus check

Four options sit inside ACCA's Strategic Professional level, and you need two of them alongside Strategic Business Leader and Strategic Business Reporting. ACCA revises syllabuses, study guides, examinable documents and the rules on exam order each year, so the current pages on ACCA's website are the only safe starting point. Half an hour reading them now stops you studying last year's version of an exam.

First tasks

  • Download the current syllabus and study guide for AFM, APM, ATX and AAA
  • Write down each option's exam structure as ACCA states it, with today's date
  • Note ACCA's current rules on option choice, exam order and any completion time limit
  • Recheck ACCA's options pages for syllabus and rule changes @recurring(quarterly)

Choosing your two options against your career plan

Picking two options is the one decision in this area that shapes years of work after qualifying, yet many students choose on rumoured pass rates alone. AFM suits corporate finance and treasury, APM suits management accounting and business partnering, ATX suits tax practice and AAA suits an audit career, and each builds on a different Applied Skills exam.

First tasks

  • List the job roles you want in five years and the option each one draws on
  • Score AFM, APM, ATX and AAA against the same five criteria
  • Ask a qualified colleague which options they would choose for your role
  • Write down your two options and the reason for each

Brought-forward knowledge check from FM, PM, TX and AA

Every option assumes you still know its Applied Skills foundation: AFM builds on FM, APM on PM, ATX on TX and AAA on AA, with financial reporting knowledge behind AAA too. If years have passed since those exams, the gaps show up as lost marks in the first weeks of option study. A short self-test on the earlier paper's core topics tells you what to refresh before the new material starts.

First tasks

  • Find the brought-forward knowledge section in each chosen option's study guide
  • Attempt one timed question from the earlier Applied Skills exam on each core topic
  • Rank the topics where you lost the most marks
  • Rework the top three gaps before opening the option study text

Make it yours.

Install ACCA Strategic Professional Options, 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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