To be recognized you need 4 yrs of working experience? Can someone clarify on this?

What working experience do we need? To be recognized as a CFA ( after passing all the exam), we need to have 4 years of relevant working experience such as in Banks, Securities and financial advisory fields only?

What about corporations and firms that have corporate finance department? Will the CFA Board acknowledge those working experience?

Anyone mind sharing some input?

Please describe the relevant working experience required and how long is the duration? Is 6 months possible or 1 year or more than that?

What if we are working in corporate finance department of a Big corporation? Is it relevant? Please clarify clngu. Your help will be much appreciated.

I have registered for this coming june 2009 exam in Kasturi and CFA institute. Feel free to add me in msn or pm so that we can embark on a desperate, dull and exhausting exam together.

Let's kill this monster!

Long working hours + The weightlifting books, can totally kill you.

I wondery, why asians work long hours =="

This exam is 10% intelligence, 10% luck, 80% hard work + memory power.

Of course there will be accounting questions but not preparing financial statements or writing accounting standards requirement. You will be tested on interpreting financial statements and extracting accounting information for decision making. The designation is pretty obvious, financial analysts. Having said that, they will craft these accounting questions in objective format. It may sound easy, but if you add exam pressure and time constraint into the chemistry, it's a different ball game. Visit cfa website and download the respective LOS.