Strategic Business Management Exam Room Notes 2020

Fully updated 2020 edition which has been extensively revised for the new Study Manual content on IFRS 16 and the 2018 edition of the UK Corporate Governance Code. We have also added over 50 pages of entirely new content on 2020 syllabus additions and changes on topics such as Business ecosystems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Enterprise Risk Management, the finance function as a business partner, the new IFRS 9 treatment summary tables provided by the examiners and Treasury controls, 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, recent editions of our SBM Exam Room Notes have included reminders on how to perform calculations for forwards, futures, options, Interest Rate Swaps, Forward Rate Agreements and Money Market Hedging. We have retained these notes for the 2020 edition of the book.

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” reminders 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 reminders of linkages 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.

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