How seriously do you take the professional standards section of this examination?  I firmly believe ...

This reading covers the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct material of the CFA Lev...

In this reading, we will study the seven standards of professional conduct in detail. The CFA member...

In this course, we cover two reading on Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) which are a p...

In this course, you will learn about descriptive statistics such as central tendency, location, disp...

In this course, you will learn about probability theory and its applications in measuring risk in in...

This reading provides an introduction to the concepts and techniques of time value of money. These t...

In this course, you will learn about hypothesis testing, used for validating dataset hypotheses, alo...

This course introduces some of the discrete and continuous probability distributions most commonly u...

In the real world, it is often not possible to collect data about an entire population to conduct a ...

High quality investment advisors and portfolio managers need to have base competency in economic the...

In this course, you will learn about the firm and the various types of market structures: - Types o...

In this reading, we begin with the fundamental macroeconomic concepts. This reading covers the build...

In this course, you will learn the following: - Business cycles - Typical patterns of resource ...

In this course, you will learn the following: - Monetary and fiscal policy - Money and process ...

In this reading, we will study economics in the context of global trade. We will start with an under...

In this course, you will learn about the currency market fundamentals.

In this reading, we will learn the following: - Role of Financial Reporting - Key Financial Sta...

In this reading, we will learn the following: - Objectives of financial statements - Importance...

This reading introduces the readers to income statements, one of the three major financial statement...

This reading introduces the readers to balance sheets, one of the three major financial statements. ...

This reading introduces the readers to cash flow statements, one of the three major financial statem...

In this reading we will learn about how an analyst can use the financial reports to perform detailed...

In this course, we will discuss the various methods for valuing inventory, namely, LIFO, FIFO and we...

Long-lived assets refer to the long term assets that include property, plant and equipment (PPE), na...

A company’s accounting policies (such as depreciation choices, and valuation of assets) can cause di...

Non-current liabilities affect a company’s liquidity and solvency and have consequences for its long...

Till now we learned about the various tools and financial reporting techniques an analyst can use fo...

In this course, you will learn about capital budgeting and the assessment of capital investments.

The cost of capital is the rate of return that a firm pays to bondholders and equity holders. Cost o...

Working capital management refers to the set of corporate finance activities that deal with the shor...

Leverage refers to the use of fixed costs in a company's cost structure. In this reading we will lea...

In this course, you will learn about market efficiency and the degree to which market prices may ref...

This course provides an overview of the financial system and how financial markets are structured. Y...

This course provides an introduction to the security market indices. You will learn about how indice...

In this course, you will learn about the three main equity valuation approaches: present value, mult...

This course introduces you to various types of equity securities and their characteristics. You will...

Industry analysis is a part of portfolio performance attribution, that is, the industry is studied a...

In this course, you will learn about unique characteristics of fixed-income securities, its covenant...

In this course, you will learn about the primary issuers of fixed income securities, primary and sec...

This course introduces the general principles for valuation of fixed income securities. You will lea...

This course covers asset securitization, the process of creating securities backed by certain assets...

In this course, you will learn about the measurement of interest rate risk using two key concepts, n...

This course introduces the readers to credit analysis of bonds. You will learn about credit analysis...

This course introduces the concept of derivatives and provides an overview of the various types of d...

In this course, you will learn about the features and valuation concepts for forwards, futures, opti...

When we talk about traditional investments, we are generally talking about cash, bonds and stocks. A...

This course provides an overview of portfolio management. Additional references: [Hedge Funds](ht...

Portfolio Risk and Return

In this reading, you will learn about technical analysis, a set of tools that uses asset price, trad...

In this course, we will learn about the process of portfolio planning and construction. We will also...