Strategic Business Leader
LEARNING OUTCOMES
SBL mirrors the workplace and provides you with real world challenges allowing you to demonstrate a blend of technical, practical and professional skills. Work through the Ethics and Professional Skills module either before you start, or alongside your studies. This gives you insight into professional skills that you can apply in your exam and in the workplace.
SYLLABUS
- Qualities of leadership
- Leadership and organisational culture
- Professionalism, ethical codes and the public interest
- Â Agency
- Stakeholder analysis and organisational social responsibility
- Governance scope and approaches
- Reporting to stakeholders
- The board of directors
- Public sector governance
- Concepts of strategy
- Environmental issues
- Competitive forces
- The internal resources, capabilities and competencies of an organisation
- Strategic choices
- Identification, assessment and
measurement of risk - Managing, monitoring and mitigating risk
- Cloud and mobile technology
- Big data and data analytics
- E- business: value chain
- IT systems security and control
- Management and internal control systems
- Audit and compliance
- Internal control and management reporting
- Finance function
- Financial analysis and decision- making techniques
- Cost and management accounting
- 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
- Communication
- Commercial acumen
- Analysis
- Scepticism
- Evaluation
Strategic Business Leader
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
LEARNING OUTCOMES
SBL mirrors the workplace and provides you with real world challenges allowing you to demonstrate a blend of technical, practical and professional skills. Work through the Ethics and Professional Skills module either before you start, or alongside your studies. This gives you insight into professional skills that you can apply in your exam and in the workplace.
SYLLABUS
- Qualities of leadership
- Leadership and organizational culture
- Professionalism, ethical codes and the public interest
- Â Agency
- Stakeholder analysis and organisational social responsibility
- Governance scope and approaches
- Reporting to stakeholders
- The board of directors
- Public sector governance
- Concepts of strategy
- Environmental issues
- Competitive forces
- The internal resources, capabilities and competencies of an organisation
- Strategic choices
- Identification, assessment and
measurement of risk - Managing, monitoring and mitigating risk
- Cloud and mobile technology
- Big data and data analytics
- E- business: value chain
- IT systems security and control
- Management and internal control systems
- Audit and compliance
- Internal control and management reporting
- Finance function
- Financial analysis and decision- making techniques
- Cost and management accounting
- 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
- Communication
- Commercial acumen
- Analysis
- Scepticism
- Evaluation
EXAM PATTERN
Exam Duration
3 hours
Passing Marks
50/100
Mode of Exam
Online
All Attempts
Mar/June/Sep/Dec