Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

SBR Success Strategies and How to Study Smarter.

That was the title of a podcast that I was recently invited to participate in by Diana from ACCA.

I suppose it's primarily aimed at those people who are beginning their journey in terms of SBR.

I hope you find it useful.

I hope you enjoyed the podcast.

Thank you very much.

Hello and welcome to this new episode of our series for ACCA students.

Today's episode is called SBR Success Strategies, How to Study Smarter.

And how did that all start? How did you get into

that? That started with the ACCA.

They asked me to go on stage.

I have never been on stage before in my life.

It calmed me down.

And I was talking about starting the practice on stage and it kind of went from there.

Pat from the ACCA wanted to reach more people to say, look, you can start your own practice.

This is how our members have done it.

We've developed a lot of backlinks.

And I've managed to build some sort of journalistic relationships and had quite a few articles that have gone into things like Accountancy Daily and with the ACCA magazine.

And I was then able to become a speaker at Accountex last year.

And it's sort of all of which, you know, helped strengthen relationships.

to extol their virtues until that point anyway if they were members of the ICAW.

ACCA were a little bit faster, I think, as I recall.

But nevertheless, the vast majority of practicing accountants in the UK would be ICAW members and therefore not free to do so.

So the seatbelt only came off in November 2001, so we're only 25 years on from that.

And so, yes, I am.

Well, for many years, I've taught ACCA financial reporting.

In recent years, I now teach SBR as well.

In the last year, I've set up my own my own course for FR financial reporting, and I sell that through FME Learn Online.

All right.

Thank you very much, Sarah.

And if you're interested in wanting to pass FR, the ACCA exam paper, or SBR, the ACCA exam paper, Sarah and I are more than happy to help you.

Please, through the usual social media channels, reach out and we will be there.

So one of the clearest examples will be accounting and finance.

So the Accra's refreshed skills framework for accountancy now embeds AI capabilities into every accountancy job role.

So employers are now looking for finance professionals who can go beyond reporting the numbers to analyzing data modeling scenarios, and offering business insights.

We are also seeing a similar shift in terms of the human resource HR functions.

The regular staff are unavailable.

But don't worry, I'm an ACCA qualified chartered accountant.

I don't care.

I demand to see the manager.

And it was fantastic.

We were actually there with the ACCA accounting institution that Rachel knows.

And I mean, it's such a buzz.

I find it so motivating to actually get out there and meet people who are trying to sort of change the world or whatever.

She also obtained a DBA degree from the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.

She's a fellow member of the Hong Kong Investor Relations Association, a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries, a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

So wonderful to welcome you to the, uh, to the episode, Dr. Chan.

Thanks so much for making the time.