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ACCOUNTANCY · 43 lessons

ACCA Business and Technology (BT)

How the BT exam is built and how to pass it — the two sections, where the marks sit, and sitting your on-demand CBE with us.

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Syllabus

Lessons are presented by Emma, our AI teacher. The curriculum is written by Sterling College London tutors.

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Module 1: Exam preparation with Sterling

  • How the BT exam worksquiz🔒
  • The two sections, and where the marks arequiz🔒
  • The question types you will meetquiz🔒
  • The five things people get wrongquiz🔒
  • Your four-week planquiz🔒
  • Booking and test day at Sterlingquiz🔒

Module 2: A — The business organisation and its external environment

  • What an organisation is, and the five typesexplainerquiz🔒
  • Stakeholders, and Mendelow's matrixexplainerquiz🔒
  • Political and legal factorsquiz🔒
  • Macroeconomic factorsexplainerquiz🔒
  • Microeconomic factorsquiz🔒
  • Social and demographic factorsquiz🔒
  • Technological factorsquiz🔒
  • Environmental and sustainability factorsquiz🔒
  • Competitive factors: Porter and the value chainexplainerquiz🔒

Module 3: B — Organisational structure, culture, governance and sustainability

  • Formal and informal organisationquiz🔒
  • Organisational structureexplainerquiz🔒
  • Organisational cultureexplainerquiz🔒
  • Governance in business organisationsquiz🔒
  • Sustainable business practicesquiz🔒

Module 4: C — Business functions, regulation and technology

  • Accounting and the other business functionsquiz🔒
  • Inside the finance functionquiz🔒
  • Regulation and financial crimeexplainerquiz🔒
  • The financial information a business producesquiz🔒
  • Financial systems and technologyquiz🔒
  • Internal controlsexplainerquiz🔒
  • The impact of advances in technologyquiz🔒

Module 5: D — Leadership and management

  • Leadership, management and supervisionexplainerquiz🔒
  • Individual and group behaviourquiz🔒
  • Team formation and developmentexplainerquiz🔒
  • Motivating individuals and teamsexplainerquiz🔒
  • Learning and training at workexplainerquiz🔒
  • Review and appraisal of performanceexplainerquiz🔒

Module 6: E — Personal effectiveness and communication in business

  • Personal effectivenessquiz🔒
  • Consequences of ineffectivenessquiz🔒
  • Competence frameworks and developmentquiz🔒
  • Conflict and how to resolve itquiz🔒
  • Communicating in businessquiz🔒

Module 7: F — Professional ethics

  • The fundamental principles of ethicsexplainerquiz🔒
  • Threats to the principles, and safeguardsexplainerquiz🔒
  • The role of the profession and regulationquiz🔒
  • Corporate codes of ethicsquiz🔒
  • Ethical conflict and how to resolve itquiz🔒