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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.
Average duration
12-18 months
Assessments
4 exams
Kaplan pass rates*
72%
*Kaplan Live Online learners achieved a 72% pass rate across 169 AA exams taken at the June 2025 sitting. For comparison, the global average pass rate was 44%.
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.
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.
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.
You may be eligible for an apprenticeship through your employer, depending on your circumstances.
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Learners must complete all compulsory subjects as well as choosing two optional subjects.
Compulsory
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.
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.
from £399.00inc.VAT
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.
Please note that the ACCA will stop offering the SBR UK exam after June 2025. After this date, you will need to take the SBR INT version. Visit the ACCA website to understand how this change may affect you.
from £269.00inc.VAT
Optional
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.
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.
from £329.00inc.VAT
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.
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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Exams for Strategic Professional subjects are computer-based and should be booked with ACCA directly.
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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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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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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 more than a third, compared to studying Tuition only.*
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*Kaplan's complete course pass rate vs Kaplan's tuition-only pass rate across all levels in 2024. Valid as of January 2025.
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.
Work your way through the full syllabus and focus on the key areas likely to come up in the exam. Tuition courses include:
*Not included in Distance Learning.
Apply your knowledge to exam questions, learn how to structure an answer and how to understand a requirement. Revision courses include:
Exclusive practice questions taken under exam conditions. Get personalised feedback and recorded debriefs. Pre-Exam Workshop courses include:
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