ACCA · Strategic Professional
SBL Strategic Business Leader
An integrated case exam on leadership, governance, risk, strategy, technology and finance, answered as realistic professional tasks with marks for professional skills.
SBL
- Format
- Session computer-based exam
- Duration
- 3h 15m
- Pass mark
- 50%
- Total marks
- 100
- Sessions
- March, June, September, December
- Syllabus
- 2026/27
Exam structure
- Pre-seen
Background on a fictitious organisation and its industry, released two weeks before the exam and also available inside the exam.
- Case study100
Three compulsory tasks of varying marks built on new exhibits about the pre-seen organisation; the candidate may take different roles. 80 technical marks plus 20 professional skills marks spread across most tasks.
An integrated case built on a pre-seen released before the exam: three compulsory tasks, with 20 of the 100 marks for professional skills. Read the pre-seen well before exam day.
Syllabus navigator
Every area, with where HPS teaches it.
Use the arrow keys or select an area. Areas and sub-areas follow the ACCA 2026/27 syllabus. Weightings appear only where the examining body publishes them.
Syllabus area A
Leadership
3 sub-areas, as the syllabus lists them. HPS lessons and questions are tagged to these codes, so your Knowledge DNA and revision plan point at the exact sub-area you got wrong.
- A1Qualities of leadership
- A2Leadership and organisational culture
- A3Professionalism, ethical codes and the public interest
Courses
SBL tuition is scheduled on request.
Tell HPS you are interested and the programme office will let you know when the next course is confirmed.
Practise free
Questions without an account.
- Free SBL practice is being prepared
Next sessions
- December 20267 Dec 2026 to 11 Dec 2026
Resources
Free reading for this paper.
- Resources for this paper are being prepared. The library grows every week.