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1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
10. Market Regulation
10. Using Geometric and Arithmetic Means
101 concepts level I
101 concepts level II
2. Acquisition of Long-Lived Assets
2. Aggregate Output and Income
2. Alternative Investments
2. Analysis of Market Structures
2. Benefits of Securitization for Economies and Financial Markets
2. Bond Prices and the Time Value of Money
2. Bonds Payable
2. Capital Market Theory
2. Components and Format of the Cash Flow Statement
2. Corporate Governance Overview
2. Cost of Capital
2. Credit Risk
2. Demand Analysis: The Consumer
2. Discrete Random Variables
2. Fundamental Concepts of Derivative Pricing
2. Hypothesis Testing
2. Index Definition and Calculations of Value and Returns
2. International Trade
2. Investment Characteristics of Assets
2. Leverage
2. Managing and Measuring Liquidity
2. Monetary Policy
2. Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return
2. Overview of a Fixed Income Security
2. Overview of Global Fixed-Income Markets
2. Overview of the Business Cycle
2. Portfolio Planning
2. Probability, Expected Value, and Variance
2. Sampling
2. Some Fundamental Concepts
2. Technical Analysis: Definition and Scope
2. The Concept of Market Efficiency
2. The Financial Analysis Process
2. The Foreign Exchange Market
2. The Functions of the Financial System
3. Accounts and Financial Statements
3. Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and Equilibrium
3. Analytical Tools and Techniques
3. Approaches to Identifying Similar Companies
3. Assets and Contracts
3. Business and Financial Risk
3. Capital Structure, Seniority Ranking and Recovery Rates
3. Company Stakeholders
3. Context for Assessing Financial Reporting Quality
3. Continuous Random Variables
3. Costs of the Different Sources of Capital
3. Currency Exchange Rate Calculations
3. Current Assets and Current Liabilities
3. Depreciation and Amortization of Long-Lived Tangible Assets
3. Determining the Tax Base of Assets and Liabilities
3. Distribution of the Sample Mean
3. Fiscal Policy
3. Forms of Market Efficiency
3. Hedge Funds
3. How Securitization Works
3. Hypothesis Tests Concerning the Mean
3. Index Construction and Management
3. Interest Rate Risk on Fixed-Rate Bonds
3. Inventory Valuation Methods
3. Leases
3. Legal, Regulatory, and Tax Considerations
3. Managing the Cash Position
3. Perfect Competition
3. Portfolio Construction
3. Portfolio Expected Return and Variance of Return
3. Portfolio Return Measurement
3. Prices and Yields: Conventions for Quotes and Calculations
3. Pricing and Valuation of Forward Commitments
3. Pricing of Risk and Computation of Expected Return
3. Primary and Secondary Bond Markets
3. Revenue Recognition
3. Risk Aversion and Portfolio Selection
3. Risk Governance
3. Summarizing Data Using Frequency Distributions
3. Supply Analysis: The Firm
3. Technical Analysis Tools
3. The Cash Flow Statement: Linkages and Preparation
3. The Future Value of a Single Cash Flow
3. The Structure of Derivatives Market
3. Theories of the Business Cycle
3. Trade and Capital Flows: Restrictions and Agreements
3. Types and Characteristics of Equity Securities
4. Cash Flow Statement Analysis
4. Common Ratios Used in Financial Analysis
4. Detection of Financial Reporting Quality Issues
4. Economic Growth and Sustainability
4. Elliot Wave Theory
4. Exchange Rate Regimes
4. Expense Recognition
4. Financial Intermediaries
4. Hypothesis Tests Concerning Variance
4. Identification of Risks
4. Industry Classification Systems
4. Interest Rate Risk and the Investment Horizon
4. Introduction to Pensions and Other Post-Employment Benefits
4. Investing Short-Term Funds
4. Investment Decision Criteria
4. Market Pricing Anomalies
4. Money Market Yields
4. Monopolistic Competition
4. Monte Carlo Simulation
4. Non-Current Assets
4. Point and Interval Estimates of the Population Mean
4. Portfolio Risk
4. Present Value Models: The Dividend Discount Model
4. Pricing and Valuation of Options
4. Private Equity
4. Private versus Public Equity Securities
4. Rating Agencies, Credit Rating and Their Role in Debt Markets
4. Residential Mortgage Loans
4. Sovereign Bonds
4. Stakeholder Management
4. Structure of a Bond’s Cash Flows
4. Temporary and Permanent Differences between Taxable and Accounting Profit
4. The Accounting Process
4. The Balance of Payments
4. The Capital Asset Pricing Model
4. The Future Value of a Series of Cash Flows
4. The Graphic Presentation of Data
4. The LIFO Method
4. The Maturity Structure of Interest Rates
4. The Relationship between Monetary and Fiscal Policy
4. The Revaluation Model
4. Topics in Cost of Capital Estimation
4. Topics in Probability
4. Types of Derivatives
4. Unemployment and Inflation
4. Uses of Market Indexes
5. Accruals and Valuation Adjustments
5. Behavioral Finance
5. Beyond the Capital Asset Pricing Model
5. Board of Directors and Committees
5. Bonds with Contingency Provisions
5. Conclusion
5. Credit and Liquidity Risk
5. Describing and Analyzing an Industry
5. Economic Indicators
5. Efficient Frontier and Investor’s Optimal Portfolio
5. Equity Analysis
5. Equity Indexes
5. Evaluating Solvency: Leverage and Coverage Ratios
5. Exchange Rates, International Trade, and Capital Flows
5. Impairment of Assets
5. Inter-market Analysis
5. Inventory Method Changes
5. Investing in Non-Domestic Equity Securities
5. Managing Accounts Receivable
5. Measures of Central Tendency
5. Measuring and Modifying Risks
5. More on Sampling
5. Multiplier Models
5. Non-Current Liabilities
5. Non-Recurring Items and Non-Operating Items
5. Non-Sovereign Government, Quasi-Government, and Supranational Bonds
5. Oligopoly
5. Other Issues: Nonparametric Inference
5. Pooled Investments
5. Positions
5. Real Estate
5. Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
5. The Present Value of a Single Cash Flow
5. The Purposes and Benefits of Derivatives
5. Trade Organizations
5. Traditional Credit Analysis: Corporate Debt Securities
5. Unused Tax Losses and Tax Credits
5. Yield Spreads
6. Accounting Systems
6. Asset-Based Valuation
6. Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
6. Commodities
6. Company Analysis
6. Corporate Debt
6. Credit Analysis
6. Credit Risk vs. Return: Yields and Spreads
6. Criticisms and Misuses of Derivatives
6. Derecognition
6. Earnings per Share
6. Equity
6. Factors Affecting Stakeholder Relationships and Corporate Governance
6. Fixed Income Indexes
6. Inventory Adjustments
6. Managing Inventory
6. Monopoly
6. Orders
6. Other Measures of Location: Quantiles
6. Recognition and Measurement of Current and Deferred Tax
6. Risk and Return Characteristics of Equity Securities
6. The Present Value of a Series of Cash Flows
7. Analysis of the Balance Sheet
7. Analysis of the Income Statement
7. Business and Geographic Segments
7. Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Management Risks and Benefits
7. Elementary Principles of Derivative Pricing
7. Equity Securities and Company Value
7. Evaluation of Inventory Management
7. Identification of Market Structure
7. Indexes for Alternative Investments
7. Infrastructure
7. Managing Accounts Payable
7. Measures of Dispersion
7. Non-Mortgage Asset-Backed Securities
7. Presentation and Disclosure
7. Presentation and Disclosures
7. Primary Security Markets
7. Solving for Rates, Number of Periods, or Size of Annuity Payments
7. Special Considerations of High Yield, Sovereign, and Non-Sovereign Credit Analysis
7. Structured Financial Instruments
7. Using Financial Statements in Security Analysis
8. Analyst Considerations in Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Management
8. Collateralized Debt Obligations
8. Comparison of US GAAP and IFRS
8. Comprehensive Income
8. Investment Property
8. Managing Short-Term Financing
8. Model Building and Forecasting
8. Other Alternative Investments
8. Secondary Security Market and Contract Market Structures
8. Short-Term Funding Alternatives Available to Banks
8. Symmetry and Skewness in Return Distributions
9. ESG Considerations for Investors
9. Kurtosis in Return Distributions
9. Leasing
9. Risk Management Overview
9. Well-Functioning Financial Systems
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Level II
Level III
Portfolio Management
Quantitative Methods
R01 Ethics and Trust in the Investment Profession
R02 Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct Profession
R03 Guidance for Standards I-VII
R04 Introduction to the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
R05 The GIPS Standard
R06 Time Value of Money
R07 Discounted Cash Flow Applications
R08 Statistical Concepts and Market Return
R09 Probability Concepts
R10 Common Probability Distributions
R11 Sampling and Estimation
R12 Hypothesis Testing
R13 Technical Analysis
R14 Topics in Demand and Supply Analysis
R15 The Firm and Market Structures
R16 Aggregate Output, Prices and Economic Growth
R17 Understanding Business Cycles
R18 Monetary and Fiscal Policy
R19 International Trade and Capital Flows
R20 Currency Exchange Rates
R21 Financial Statement Analysis
R22 Financial Reporting Mechanics
R23 Financial Reporting Standards
R24 Understanding Income Statements
R25 Understanding Balance Sheets
R26 Understanding Cash Flow Statements
R27 Financial Analysis Techniques
R28 Inventories
R29 Long Lived Assets
R30 Income Taxes
R31 Non-Current Liabilities
R32 Financial Reporting Quality
R33 Financial Statement Analysis Applications
R34 Corporate Governance and ESG - An Introduction
R35 Capital Budgeting
R36 Cost of Capital
R37 Measures of Leverage
R38 Working Capital Management
R39 Portfolio Management Overview
R40 Risk Management - An Introduction
R41 Portfolio Risk and Return Part I
R42 Portfolio Risk and Return Part II
R43 Basics of Portfolio Planning and Construction
R44 Market Organization and Structure
R45 Security Market Indexes
R46 Market Efficiency
R47 Overview of Equity Securities
R48 Introduction to Industry and Company Analysis
R49 Equity Valuation
R50 Fixed Income Securities - Defining Elements
R51 Fixed Income Markets - Issuance Trading and Funding
R52 Introduction to Fixed Income Valuation
R53 Introduction to Asset Backed Securities
R54 Understanding Fixed-Income Risk and Return
R55 Fundamentals of Credit Analysis
R56 Derivative Markets and Instruments
R57 Basics of Derivative Pricing and Valuation
R58 Introduction to Alternative Investments
Standard I: Professionalism
Standard II: Integrity of Capital Markets
Standard III: Duties to Clients
Standard IV: Duties to Employers
Standard V: Investment Analysis, Recommendations, and Actions
Standard VI: Conflicts of Interest
Standard VII: Responsibilities as a CFA Institute Member or CFA Candidate
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22-08-19 The Magic Number to Pass Level I

The Magic Number to Pass Level I

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell asserts,“10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness”. After reading the book I began to wonder whether there was a ‘magic number’ in the context of preparing for the CFA exams. Though most of you do not have 10,000 hours left to prepare, it is tempting to say that if you study more than x number of hours, you’ll pass. However, after many years of preparing candidates I’ve realized that there is no magic number of study hours. This is particularly true with Level I. The number of required study hours varies from candidate… Read More

Level I

15-08-19 2020 Level III Program Changes

2020 Level III Program Changes

Each year CFA Institute makes changes to the exam curriuculum. For details on what has been added, removed or changed for Level III please see the chart here: Level III 2019-2020 Program Changes by IFT If you have any comments or questions please visit the   IFT Help Desk Why should you choose IFT to pass the exam? Watch this video! Best Regards, Arif Irfanullah, CFA

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11-08-19 Preparing for the Level II Exam with IFT

Preparing for the Level II Exam with IFT

We know how daunting it is to start preparing for the CFA exams. To achieve success, you have to organize, schedule, study and practice, all in the most efficient way. That’s why we have made a simple How to Prepare for the CFA exams series to guide you through the process of beginning your studies. Make sure you watch the next video “Level II CFA: Preparing with IFT!” Make sure you watch the next video “Level II CFA: What are IFT Video Lectures?”  

Level II

06-08-19 Your June 2019 Level I & II Exam Results

Your June 2019 Level I & II Exam Results

Today CFA Institute is announcing the results for the June 2019 Level I and II exams. If you know your result, then you have either experienced the joy of passing or the disappointment of falling short. The result time is always slightly awkward for me – because I share the happiness of those who did well, while at the same time I feel for those who did not make it. For those who took the Level I or II exam, you will fall in one of the categories given below. Please click on the link which describes your situation. •… Read More

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06-08-19 Advice for those who passed the Level I exam

Advice for those who passed the Level I exam

Congratulations!   Passing the Level I exam is the first major milestone on your journey towards the CFA charter and is a major accomplishment. At this stage, you might be wondering whether to take the Level II exam in June next year and if so, when to start studying? Whether or not to take the Level II exam in June 2020 should depend on the following: Did you enjoy the Level I material and are you still excited about pursuing a career in investment management? Given your personal and professional commitments, will you have enough time to study for the… Read More

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06-08-19 Advice for those who failed the Level I exam

Advice for those who failed the Level I exam

If you failed the Level I exam it is natural to feel disappointed, but you must put this temporary set-back behind you and move on.   Failure was never meant to be a signal to turn back, but instead an obstacle that the stronger and wiser use to boost themselves up and attain greater heights. Your recent failure might cause you to wonder whether or not to continue with the CFA Program, and if so, when to re-take the exam. Let us consider the first question: whether to continue with the CFA Program or not. For those who did not… Read More

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06-08-19 Advice for those who passed the Level II exam

Advice for those who passed the Level II exam

To begin, I would like to congratulate you. You have passed the Level II exam, a significant accomplishment.   Now, however, your next major target should be to clear the Level III exam. Unless there are compelling reasons otherwise, I’d recommend that you take the Level III exam in June 2020. You have a rhythm going, the Level II material is relatively fresh, so why wait? Now let us talk a little about Level III. There is a common perception that Level II is the hardest of all three exams, and so things get a little easier with Level III…. Read More

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06-08-19 Advice for those who failed the Level II exam

Advice for those who failed the Level II exam

If you failed the Level II exam your natural response is probably to feel disappointed. You might even be wondering whether or not you should continue with the CFA Program.   The typical advice is to keep trying; however, I suggest a more thoughtful approach. Put the result on the side for a moment and ask yourself: did I really enjoy the subject matter? Try doing a post-audit on why you did not pass. Was it because you did not have enough time to prepare for the exam? Or did you have a very hard time understanding the concepts? Is… Read More

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