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CFA Programme in India Admissions 2011-2012

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The CFA Institute in India is offering Graduate level programmes for serving investment professionals, investors, and Indian financial markets in India. CFA is an international institute and offer Finance and Accountancy releated programmes throughout the world. The CFA Program is basically a self-study, graduate-level program. The programmes is available for investment professionals. There will be three levels in the programme. If a candidate pass in all the exams and meet all other requirements, you will earn a CFA charter. Following are details of the CFA Programme for 2011-12.

CFA Institute is in no way affiliated or associated with ICFAI. The CFA Program is not approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). For more details about the validity of the programme, you can contact at India Toll Free No: 000-800-852-1157 Local CFA Institute member society in India is headquartered in Mumbai and established in April 2005.

Interested candidates can download the CFA charter brochure or you can request a printed version from the official website www.cfainstitute.org . You can enroll / register for the CFA programme throuhg online. You can also contact the regional Asia-Pacific office at Hong Kong for more details of the programme instructions and delivery.

CFA Exam Format : Three Levels:

1) Level I Exams: This is a multiple choice type exam. The Level I examination will consists of 240 questions to be completed in a six-hour time frame.

2) Level II Exams:This Level II CFA exam consists of 20 item sets. These will be distributed as 10 on the morning session and 10 on the afternoon session.

3) Level III exams: This level consists of item set and essay. Essay format will be held in the morning and Item set format with 10 item sets will be conducted in the afternoon.

MBA CFA in India – Course and Career

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A student of Sciences asked… ‘I am often hearing about MBA CFA programme. What is this CFA programme? If we join the dual programme, is it helpful for our future. Please give details about MBA CFA course. By joining this programme can we get good job and good salary in future?’

Here is the answer to this doubt: The Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) program is offered world-wide by the CFA Institute, Virginia, USA. The CFA charter is the designation one can earn after successful completion of the CFA Program. It is a self-study program of three years duration and includes three levels of examinations.
In India, the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University, Tripura is mandated to give CFA charter. The university also offers MBA-CFA dual masters degree program. It consists of two streams viz., MBA and CFA. The MBA stream is designed to provide both a portfolio of strong functional skills and the ability to apply, adapt, synthesize and integrate those skills into different management settings. The CFA stream provides an in-depth understanding of financial analysis. The knowledge of which can be applied in banking and financial services sector and practice areas like strategic finance, mergers and acquisitions, risk management and consulting.

Through the Dual Masters Program, the students may acquire two career-oriented professional qualifications in management and financial analysis and also save precious time. Instead of the normal duration of 4 years (two years for MBA and two years for CFA) the students of the Dual Masters Program may complete the same in 27 months. Bachelor’s degree in English medium (any discipline) with 55 percent and above aggregate marks are eligible to register for this course. CAs / CWAs (with a bachelor degree) are also eligible to apply and they also get waivers in some subjects.

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