• Timeless knowledge and current skills you can use right away and throughout your career
• Curriculum is reviewed and updated each year by employers and practicing charterholders

The CFA Program curriculum is firmly grounded in the established fundamental knowledge and skills you will use every day in the investment profession. It also evolves each year to include new tools, ideas, frontier concepts, and lessons to reflect the dynamic and complex nature of the global investment profession.

Like the many charterholders who keep their CFA Program curriculum materials on hand to use as a resource throughout their careers, as a CFA Program candidate, you will find valuable applications for these skills in your day-to-day work, even while you study for the exams.

The CFA Program curriculum is developed and updated each year through an extensive and ongoing global practice analysis process that relies on input, discussions, surveys, and review from hundreds of active practitioners and employers.

This annual process leverages the broad expertise and specialized knowledge of our global membership as well as panels of industry experts and employers. Practice analysis allows the curriculum to keep pace with the most relevant trends and current practices and ensures that the skills employers look for are reflected in the curriculum.

Learn more about the curriculum, study sessions, and exam questions.