What do you think are the most likely SoPa OCS topics for August 2026?

I have been working through the SoPa pre seen and I am interested to hear what everyone else thinks could come up in the August 2026 OCS.

At first I thought the obvious areas were expansion, customer experience and staff turnover.

But after looking at the financial statements and industry information a bit more, I feel there are quite a few possibilities:

* Expansion into new cities or even new countries

* AI and technology in restaurant operations

* Dynamic pricing and improving restaurant occupancy

* Supply chain and inventory management

* Recruitment and retention of staff

* Customer experience and brand consistency

* Performance analysis using the financial statements

* Investment decisions and financing growth

One thing I keep coming back to is how much of the pre seen can be linked across E1, P1 and F1 rather than treating them separately.

For example:

E1:

* Technology

* Change management

* Stakeholders

P1:

* Risk management

* Pricing

* Performance measurement

F1:

* Financial statement analysis

* Working capital

* Profitability

I am also wondering how much focus there will be on financial analysis. The revenue growth and profit improvements seem too important to ignore.

What are you focusing on most in your revision?

A few questions:

1. What do you think is the most likely August 2026 scenario?

2. Which area of the pre seen do you think students are overlooking?

3. Are you revising by topic or by possible scenarios?

4. How important do you think the financial statements will be in the exam?

For anyone looking for additional practice, I found a free CIMA OCS mock exam here:

https://keystoneacademia.com/cima-ocs/