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ACCA Strategic Professional

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Overview

Learn advanced techniques, skills, and the professional ethics required of an accountant or consultant operating at a senior level. Specialise in areas that best suit your career ambitions, and develop strategic vision, using your unique blend of technical, ethical and professional skills.

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Average duration

12-18 months

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Assessments

4 exams

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Kaplan pass rate*

25% higher than the global average

*Versus the global average pass rate of 56% across all levels in 2023. Valid as of March 2024.

Timetables

Programmes are running regularly throughout the year. View our timetables for scheduled Classroom and Live Online sessions to see when the next one is running.

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Who it’s for

Entry requirements

You should have completed the previous two ACCA levels; Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills, or have been awarded exemptions from Applied Knowledge and/or Applied Skills.

You can check whether you're eligible and should apply for any exemptions on the ACCA website before you start applying.

Learning outcomes from the course

Strategic Professional focuses on advanced techniques, skills and the professional ethics required of an accountant or consultant operating at a senior level. You will develop leadership and reporting skills, and then specialise in an area that suits your career ambitions.

Once complete, you can be a full ACCA member and discover where your new career in accounting can take you.

Apprenticeships

You may be eligible for an apprenticeship through your employer, depending on your circumstances.

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Course content

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Learners must complete all compulsory subjects as well as choosing two optional subjects.

Compulsory subjects

Compulsory

Ethics and Professional Skills

This module is compulsory for ACCA members and will help you develop a good understanding of ethics. You’ll be exposed to real-life situations to develop the appropriate ethical and professional skills. ACCA recommends you pass this before studying any other subjects at this level. As you take the module externally with ACCA, please visit their Ethics and Professional Skills page for more details.

Compulsory

Strategic Business Leader (SBL)

Using scenarios that could occur in your day-to-day working life, the case study challenges you to incorporate your technical, ethical and professional skills to create solutions and demonstrate these in your responses.

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  • Leadership
  • Governance
  • Strategy
  • Risk
  • Technology and data analytics
  • Organisational control and audit
  • Finance in planning and decision-making
  • Enabling success and change management
  • Professional skills
  • Other employability and digital skills

Compulsory

Strategic Business Reporting (SBR)

You’ll use your professional judgement to apply and evaluate financial reporting principles in multiple business contexts and situations, arming you with the skills to confidently explain reports and the impacts of transactions to a broad range of stakeholders.

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  • Fundamental ethical and professional principles
  • The financial reporting framework
  • Reporting the financial performance of a range of entities
  • Financial statements of groups of entities
  • Interpret financial statements for different stakeholders
  • Employability and technology skills

Optional subjects - choose 2

Optional

Advanced Financial Management (AFM)

You’ll practise the professional judgement expected of a senior financial executive or advisor, in taking or recommending decisions relating to the financial management of an organisation in private and public sectors.

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  • Role of senior financial adviser in a multinational organisation
  • Advanced investment appraisal
  • Acquisitions and mergers
  • Corporate reconstruction and reorganisation
  • Treasury and advanced risk management techniques
  • Professional skills
  • Employability and technology skills

Optional

Advanced Performance Management (APM)

You’ll develop the skills and knowledge to apply strategic management accounting techniques in multiple business contexts and to add to the evaluation of the performance of an organisation and its strategic development.

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  • Strategic planning and control
  • Performance management information systems and developments in technology
  • Strategic performance measurement
  • Performance evaluation
  • Professional skills
  • Employability and technology skills

Optional

Advanced Taxation (ATX-UK)

You’ll learn how to provide relevant information and advice to individuals and businesses on the impact of the major taxes on financial decisions and situations.

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  • Knowledge and understanding of the UK tax system through the study of more advanced topics within the taxes studied previously and the study of stamp taxes
  • The impact of relevant taxes on various situations and courses of action, including the interaction of taxes
  • Minimising and/or deferring tax liabilities by the use of standard tax planning measures
  • Professional skills
  • Employability and technology skills

Optional

Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)

You’ll analyse, evaluate and report on the assurance engagement and other audit and assurance issues in the context of best practice and current developments.

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  • A Regulatory Environment
  • Professional and Ethical Considerations
  • Quality management and practice management
  • Planning and conducting an audit of historical financial information
  • Completion, review and reporting
  • Other assignments
  • Current Issues and Developments
  • Professional skills
  • Employability and technology skills

Exams

ACCA Strategic Professional

Computer Based Exams

Exams for Strategic Professional subjects are computer-based and should be booked with ACCA directly.

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Your roadmap to exam success

ACCA run four exam sittings a year in March, June, September and December. When planning your studies, consider your workload, personal life, learning approach, and progression timeline. You can sit two exams per sitting twice a year or one exam per sitting four times a year. Kaplan is here to support you with advice on which subjects to sit first and how the four exam sittings can work for you.

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Courses

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OnDemand from £970.6
Distance Learning from £379
Classroom from £309
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Everything you need to succeed

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Expert material

Our courses include expert content, designed to help you pass your exams. As an ACCA Content Partner, we provide printed and digital study materials, as well as marked mock exams and practice questions.

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Pass Guarantee

If your results aren't as expected, we provide free access to extra content, extended tutor support, and guidance for resitting until you pass your exams.

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Academic support

Our team of 50+ finance experts and advisors provide gold-standard personalised academic support 7 days a week. We offer exam strategies, study plans, and proactive resit advice.

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Accessibility

We're committed to an inclusive learning environment, ensuring accessibility and personalised support for all students to succeed.

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Guarantee your success

Give yourself the best chance of ACCA success when you combine Tuition, Revision and a Pre Exam Workshop (PEW). It's statistically proven to increase your chance of passing by 22%, compared to studying Tuition only.*

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Revision

Pre-Exam Workshop

*Kaplan's complete course pass rate vs Kaplan's tuition-only pass rate across all levels in 2023. Valid as of January 2024.

What’s included

Classroom and Live Online learners can explore a detailed breakdown of what’s included below. If you choose our OnDemand, Distance Learning, or SBL courses, you’ll receive the Complete Course package, which encompasses elements of Tuition, Revision, and Pre-Exam Workshop.

Tuition courses

Work your way through the full syllabus and focus on the key areas likely to come up in the exam. Tuition courses include:

  • Study Text

    Textbook covering the full subject syllabus with worked examples and activities. Courses for the June exam sitting will receive a printed study text. Courses for the September sitting will receive an enhanced digital study text powered by BibliU.

  • Printed Integrated workbook*

    The integrated workbook helps you work through the syllabus, with room to write your notes. It helps you keep everything in one place to make it easy to study and revise from.

  • Application modules

    Core study material that all learners receive. It’s tutor-led with interactive tasks to help deepen your understanding of key topic areas.

  • Study modules*

    Engaging, online modules including bite-sized tutor-led lectures taking you step by step through the whole syllabus.

  • Testing

    A diverse range of regular assessments and tests, designed to continuously improve your understanding, assess your areas of strengths and weaknesses, and prepare you for the revision process.

*Not included in Distance Learning.

Revision courses

Apply your knowledge to exam questions, learn how to structure an answer and how to understand a requirement. Revision courses include:

  • Exam Kit

    Gives you plenty of exam style questions and answers to test your knowledge and practice. Study smarter, not harder, it includes our recommended revision approach and a revision plan, and exam technique guide. Courses for the June exam sitting will receive a printed Exam Kit. Courses for the September sitting will receive an enhanced digital Exam Kit powered by BibliU.

  • Printed Pocket Notes

    Pocket-sized, brief revision notes that highlight and prioritise the essential topics you need to understand to pass ACCA’s exams.

  • Testing and mocks

    With a wide array of tests, mock exams*, recaps, and feedback, you will solidify your knowledge and be equipped with the right strategies to succeed in the real exam.

  • Exam preparation guidance

    Master your exams with a guide to preparation and revision, a strategic exam countdown, and insightful software tutorials to ensure you're fully equipped.

Pre-Exam Workshop courses

Exclusive practice questions taken under exam conditions. Get personalised feedback and recorded debriefs. Pre-Exam Workshop courses include:

  • Interactive PEW session

    Features question debriefs with personalised marked feedback, tailored advice on further practice questions, and focused tuition on challenging topics.

Classroom and Live Online only.

All courses include

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Study methods

Get everything you need to succeed, along with tailored features depending on which study method you choose.

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Classroom
from £1,977

Free trial

Live Online
from £1,837

Free trial

OnDemand
from £979

Free trial

Distance Learning
from £379

Free trial
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Since I've started using OnDemand I'm able to revise at my own speed and cover the full syllabus of each exam in a way that works for me.

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Everything I need to pass the exams.

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Ways to pay

Pay for your course using a debit card, credit card, or PayPal. We also offer alternative payment methods to suit your needs.

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  1. Foundations

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  2. Applied Knowledge

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  3. Applied Skills

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