Hello everyone, I'm doing my undergrad from Nottingham Business School in Finance, Accounting and Management and I've just finished my first year.
I'm interested in finance as a field, and while my undergrad degree is great, I do not enjoy the modules as much unless they have a financial element to them (like Business Finance or Financial Management). I want to get into Financial Consultancy when I graduate so I have been considering starting my CFA Level 1 and giving it in June 2015.
Reasons:
1) I absolutely love finance, I'm not doing it simply because it is the gold standard, but because I actually love this field of study.
2) I have plenty of free time and I figure it'll be harder studying with a job and having a 10hour+ working day.
The question I have is, most people pursuing their CFAs seem to be professionals with lots of experience and alot of people have been discouraging saying the CFA is too hard and you might not pass all three levels.
So this seems like the best place to ask, is it really that impossible to give L1 and preferably L2 in the two years I have before graduation? It seems like them more logical choice to me since I have all the time in the world, I've given a look at the Kaplan Schweser material and passing L1 does not seem that unachiveable to me?
Thanks!
I'm interested in finance as a field, and while my undergrad degree is great, I do not enjoy the modules as much unless they have a financial element to them (like Business Finance or Financial Management). I want to get into Financial Consultancy when I graduate so I have been considering starting my CFA Level 1 and giving it in June 2015.
Reasons:
1) I absolutely love finance, I'm not doing it simply because it is the gold standard, but because I actually love this field of study.
2) I have plenty of free time and I figure it'll be harder studying with a job and having a 10hour+ working day.
The question I have is, most people pursuing their CFAs seem to be professionals with lots of experience and alot of people have been discouraging saying the CFA is too hard and you might not pass all three levels.
So this seems like the best place to ask, is it really that impossible to give L1 and preferably L2 in the two years I have before graduation? It seems like them more logical choice to me since I have all the time in the world, I've given a look at the Kaplan Schweser material and passing L1 does not seem that unachiveable to me?
Thanks!