Re: Pursuing CFA designation
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10 Mar 2013, 14:11
It really depends on what you want to do post MBA. If you want to go work on the buy-side in asset management then yea go get it. Otherwise you don't really need it for most career paths in finance.
You could knock out most of it while you are doing your MBA. You will cover pretty much everything on the CFA your first year of business school and can easily pass the level 1 test. Same pretty much goes for Level 2 (a little more studying). It does make recruiting easier though if you have a few levels completed, or passed all 3 before you get your MBA. As for were you should focus your class work, honestly an MBA isn't like undergraduate. Pretty much as soon as you start people are going to tell you to go get a job so your class selection will really depend on what field you are recruiting for. Recruiting for something finance related? Then yea you will take finance and accounting classes until you got that job locked in.
Hope that helps
-J