ACCA Strategic Professional · exam guide

ACCA Strategic Professional Eligibility

Checked against ACCA's official pages, as of 12 October 2026. Rules and fees change; confirm on the official site before you act.

Strategic Professional is the final level of the ACCA Qualification. You move to it after passing or being exempt from all Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills exams.

• You must be a registered ACCA student who has completed, or been exempted from, the three Applied Knowledge and six Applied Skills exams. If you enter a Strategic Professional exam while lower-level exams are outstanding, you must also enter for those exams.
• ACCA does not award exemptions from any Strategic Professional exam, whatever your prior qualifications.
• ACCA recommends completing the Ethics and Professional Skills Module before attempting any Strategic Professional exam.
• You must pass both Essentials, Strategic Business Leader (SBL) and Strategic Business Reporting (SBR), and two of the four Options: Advanced Financial Management (AFM), Advanced Performance Management (APM), Advanced Taxation (ATX) and Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA).