ACCA Strategic Business Leader ACCA SBL P1 module

This ACCA SBL P1 Strategic Business Leader module is designed to develop your organisational leadership and consultancy capabilities. During this course, you'll learn more about strategic positioning, management reporting, and how to ensure success through innovative thinking. To achieve the full ACCA membership qualification you will need to complete this course, as well as 12 other modules. Alternatively, you can achieve your ACCA Strategic Professional qualification by completing this module, the ACCA SBR P2 Strategic Business Reporting module, and you will also choose two of the following optional modules:

• ACCA AFM P4 Advanced Financial Management
• ACCA APM P5 Advanced Performance Management
• ACCA AAA P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance

If you're looking to simply develop your management accounting knowledge, you can also study this course on its own. Read our guide to the ACCA course and modules.

Course Content

Section A Leadership

• Qualities of leadership
• Leadership and organisational culture
• Professionalism, ethical codes, and the public interest

Section B Governance

• Agency
• Stakeholder analysis and organisational social responsibility
• Governance scope and approaches
• Reporting to stakeholders
• The board of directors
• Public sector governance

Section C Strategy

• Concepts of strategy
• Environmental issues
• Competitive forces
• The internal resources, capabilities, and competencies of an organisation
• Strategic choices

Section D Risk

• Identification, assessment, and measurement of risk
• Managing, monitoring, and mitigating risk

Section E Technology and data analytics

• Cloud and mobile technology
• Big data and data analytics
• E-business: value chain
• IT systems security and control

Section F Organisational control and audit

• Management and internal control systems
• Audit and compliance
• Internal control and management reporting

Section G Finance in planning and decision-making

• Finance introduction
• Financial analysis and decision-making techniques
• Cost and management accounting

Section H Innovation, performance excellence, and change management

• Enabling success: organising
• Enabling success: disruptive technologies
• Enabling success: talent management
• Enabling success: performance excellence
• Managing strategic change
• Innovation and change management
• Leading and managing projects

Section I Professional skills

• Communication
• Commercial acumen
• Analysis
• Scepticism
• Evaluation