Strategic Business Management Exam Room Notes 2019

Fully updated 2019 edition which has been extensively revised to allow for IFRS 9 and IFRS 15 becoming the main examinable standards on financial instruments and revenue (respectively) in the 2019 Advanced Level syllabus. We have also added over 40 pages of entirely new content on 2019 syllabus additions in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Big Data (adding onto changes made for prior year syllabus additions on this increasingly important topic), Digital Assets, Flexible Workforce Management, GDPR, Machine Learning, Natural Capital, Treasury Operations and IT, amongst other areas.

Our SBM Exam Room Notes provide condensed summaries of over 100 key SBM topics, based on our careful review of the SBM syllabus, SBM past papers & ICAEW Mocks as well as the topics tested under the similar Business Change paper of the previous ACA syllabus.

In response to the recent trend for SBM past papers to test brought-forward derivatives knowledge from the Financial Management paper, the 2019 edition of our SBM Exam Room Notes also includes reminders on how to perform calculations for forwards, futures, options, Interest Rate Swaps, Forward Rate Agreements and Money Market Hedging.

All topics are organised alphabetically for very quick reference under time pressure in the examination and include calculations where relevant. We also provide a list of topics organised by scenario (Acquisitions, Change, Finance, Growth etc) so that you can quickly find sets of relevant notes. Using our SBM Exam Room Notes will help you avoid a mind blank in the examination and will keep you focused on points that are more likely to score.

Where relevant, we include “See also” references together with page references to give you additional areas to think about as well as a direct page reference so that you can instantly access the related information: these references can be very helpful in generating further mark-scoring ideas and connections under time pressure.

Important notice: this set of Exam Room Notes has been designed as a quick reference resource to remind you of content that you should already have studied in detail based on the ICAEW Study Manual and your tuition provider’s notes. You must already have studied the Advanced Level syllabus in detail before using this book – the book is in no way designed to replace the Study Manual as a learning resource. If you have invested insufficient time in learning the syllabus content then our Exam Room Notes will not be comprehensible or useful as the book only provides reminders regarding material you must already have studied.

Look out for our other Advanced Level Exam Room Notes publications: Advanced Level Audit & Assurance Exam Room Notes 2019 and Advanced Level Financial Reporting Exam Room Notes 2019!

See www.acasimplified.com for more information on our popular Exam Room Notes series.