hahaha....u sound like an auditor ...got to have a minimum number of students though.....

http://www.ibbm.org.my/files/KR_IC_col.aspx

i bought a set of photocopied schweser notes (i think there were 6 books) and read them cover-to-cover like 3 times and made sure i understood everything. there can be no doubts cos the MCQs were very tricky. u need to know your stuff inside out.

wah, u so look me up ah???   no la, 1 level per year ......what i meant was that i cramped the entire year's syllabus in 2/3 weeks and went for the exam 

you intend to do the mba programme at Help issit?

whether to do the mba or cfa depends a lot on what u intend to do in the longer term. i'd say the cfa is technical, rigorous and perhaps more prestigious (good if you wanna be an analyst/fund management etc). on the other hand, the mba (finance) is certainly more practical and versatile. it gives u a general education in management with emphasis on finance and builds up your network of like-minded mba peers....so u got to weigh it......the cost too....the cfa programme is really very affordable.

oh, btw, cfa malaysia is doing a preview lecture by stalla on 2 Feb....http://www.cfamalaysia.org/default.aspx
you might wanna drop by to get a flavour of the cfa.

wah, i so convincing ah? its not possible. L1 (2 exams per year), L2 & L3 (1 exam per year). So, the fastest you can pass the programme is 2.5 years.

cfa is highly specialised and most useful if u wanna be an investment analyst/portfolio manager.

if i were in your shoes, between acca and cfa, i'll go for acca. its not a matter of recognition, its just that most companies do not require or can afford a cfa charterholder whereas almost every decent company out there requires an accountant.

if after a few years u wanna do financial analysis, its not a problem even though u don't have a cfa......financial accountants, especially those with industry experience, make damn good investment analysts! 

young and naive then. didn't want to spend a few years doing audit i.e. short-sighted. it was a struggle in the beginning not having done the acca/icaew but after sometime, i learned on the job and made up the bulk (not all) of that knowledge gap. no longer an issue for what i do today

debbie, what's your professional background like?

oh wow, u berry versatile!

u'll probably do well in IB/PB then considering your pr background and keen interest in finance

u seem very interested in the banking & finance industry? why ah? very sexy industry issit? 

Ya ....absolutely agree...haha...otherwise will drag till no tomorrow once getting married...

I m currently in Chartered Secretary line...do u aware on this line?

Plan to master chartered secretary line as well as financial line...As only working as chartered secretary can't even earn too much...haha...

if ladies who work in finance are sexy, then ladies who work in PR in the finance industry are super sizzling!!!  

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Added on January 29, 2010, 11:51 am

u sound like me many yonks ago 

yes, really, especially those with a penchant for second hand books and a generous heart! 

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Added on January 30, 2010, 5:26 pm

accounting is essential but its only part of the cfa syllabus.....there are other equally - if not more - important aspects of finance/investment analysis, such as ethics, economics, equities, fixed income, derivatives, portfolio management......these subjects have little to do with accounting......

MBS is probably the best offered in Malaysia. According to global MBA rankings as at 2010 it is ranked 40th. But it is the most expensive as well. Close to RM80k for the whole programme (that's the old figure I know of).

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolranki...al-mba-rankings
Besides, MBS is also listed as one of the schools in the MBA Provision for the UK Highly Skilled Migrant Programme.

http://www.skillclear.co.uk/hsmp-mba-provision.asp
The finance degree offered in Sunway Monash in collaboration with the University of Lancaster with credit exemptions for ACCA is quite an attractive prospect as well. It's only a matter of time before they have their MBA programme on our shores. And their management school is ranked 24th.

Moral support.. sometime to redo a fail subject.
At the final stage, she almost giving up, the best i can do is be there. Talk is cheap right, i can say i done it before so can you, nah i decided to sit next to her. It work out in a way.

The institute she went to have a big classes with 60 plus student, they did not notice me.