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*** December 2025 ACCA SBL exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

Forums › ACCA Forums › ACCA SBL Strategic Business Leader Forums › *** December 2025 ACCA SBL exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

  • This topic has 11 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 1 week ago by miz107.
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  • December 2, 2025 at 6:48 am #723715
    opentuition_team
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    How was your December 2025 ACCA SBL exam?

    Vote in the Instant Poll


    December 2, 2025 at 5:14 pm #723737
    tasnim29
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    What questions did everyone get?

    December 2, 2025 at 6:36 pm #723739
    JT01
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    I had benefits and drawbacks of Franchising
    Assessing a forecast of a trainee regarding a location for a hotel ?
    Slides for benefits of a project manager and 4 things in a PID
    Yield Management and ethics .
    I can’t remember anything else.

    December 2, 2025 at 7:52 pm #723741
    Josh556
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    I got the above plus a bit on ESG for suppliers.

    December 2, 2025 at 8:01 pm #723743
    TVG123@
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    Benefits of debt financing, equity by rights issue and sale & leaseback was tested.

    December 2, 2025 at 8:18 pm #723744
    kbourne
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    I got the variant with debt financing, equity and sale and leaseback. Mendelows Stakeholder Analysis was in there, as well as Risk Mitigation (I used TARA). Overall paper was ok but the first part of question 1a was tough and I used SFA which may have been incorrect, for evaluation of a strategy (although this is usually the correct option but felt lengthy for 22 marks). Overall it was ok to be honest

    December 2, 2025 at 8:32 pm #723745
    Topcat213
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    I had the same paper as you kbourne. Tbh i for 22 marker, i used financial and non financial and then did a sort of pros and cons of each, would that still get benefit? Tara for risks is a lot bettsr lol just totally forgot. Overall seemed ok but not confident tbh

    December 2, 2025 at 8:34 pm #723746
    Topcat213
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    I thought it was just discussing financial and non financial parts of the acquisition and as it was testing skpeticism, i thought the acquisition was not good

    December 3, 2025 at 9:28 am #723751
    kewalm
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    ok

    December 7, 2025 at 9:32 am #723880
    Abena4822870
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    For my paper I had the paper that first requested for financial and non financial factors of the acquisition. I got a couple for non financial but struggled to understand the financial aspects. I even thought I could come back but time beat me
    The second part was on risk which I came back to when time was running out. So I couldn’t really think of ways of mitigating the risks other than saying transfer, reduce, avoid and accept.
    My task two was on the advantages and disadvantages of debt finance, equity and sale and lease back which was okay. And the b part was on stakeholders. That one I used mendelow matrix and tried to explain my perspective of which stakeholder was allocated.
    The task three was on change management which I used ADKAR model which is a bit similar to Kotter’s model
    And finally the pros and cons of a responsible committee. This wasn’t bad too
    Overall aside task one everything was fine but I hope my professional marks are there and I hope just that task one of the financial aspect and risk doesn’t do so much of reaching the 50% pass mark.
    Fingers crossed ?

    December 9, 2025 at 6:59 am #723895
    Haronix
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    I had the same version as JT01, though I must have mistaken whose report should I criticize. Instead of criticizing work of the trainee, I was referring the the business developer manager made mistakes. Does it fail the whole answer or is it tolerable due to time pressure?

    December 15, 2025 at 1:02 pm #723960
    miz107
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    The exams was ok, I mean one could figure out what was required except for one tricky bit in Question #1 Exhibit #1 and #2, all the students including myself came to know that Exhibit #2 was also to be considered while answering Task #1. Other than that it was an OK exam.

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