CFA Program Level 1 Curriculum

Can you list me the curriculum of CFA Program Level 1 as I want to take admission in it? Give me the contact detail of the Institute as well?

[Kiran Chandar]

CFA Institute is a worldwide association of investment professionals. It offers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) designation, and the Claritas Investment Certificate Courses

CFA LEVEL 1 COURSES

1. Ethics and Standards
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Code of Ethics
1.3 The Standards of Professional Conduct
1.4 Standard I-A: Knowledge of the Law
1.5 Standard I-B: Independence And Objectivity
1.6 Standard I-C: Misrepresentation
1.7 Standard I-D: Misconduct
1.8 Standard II-A: Material Nonpublic Information
1.9 Standard II-B: Market Manipulation
1.10 Standard III-A: Loyalty, Prudence And Care
1.11 Standard III-B: Fair Dealing
1.12 Standard: III-C: Suitability
1.13 Standard III-D: Performance Presentation
1.14 Standard III-E: Preservation Of Confidentiality
1.15 Standard IV: Duties to Employers, Standard IV-A: Loyalty
1.16 Standard IV-B: Additional Compensation Arrangements
1.17 Standard IV-C: Responsibilities Of Supervisors
1.18 Standard V-A: Diligence And Reasonable Basis
1.19 Standard V-B: Communication With Clients And Prospective Clients
1.20 Standard V-C: Record Retention
1.21 Standard VI-A: Disclosure Of Conflicts
1.22 Standard VI-B: Priority Of Transaction
1.23 Standard VI-C: Referral Fees
1.24 Standard VII: CFA Responsibilities
1.25 Disciplining CFA Members
1.26 Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
1.27 GIPS: Composites And Verification
1.28 GIPS: Key Characteristics
1.29 GIPS: Disclosure And Scope
1.30 GIPS: Requirements And Recommendations
1.31 GIPS: Fundamentals Of Compliance And Conclusion

2. Quantitative Methods

2.1 Introduction
2.2 What Is The Time Value Of Money?
2.3 The Five Components Of Interest Rates
2.4 Time Value Of Money Calculations
2.5 Time Value Of Money Applications
2.6 Net Present Value and the Internal Rate of Return
2.7 Money Vs. Time-Weighted Return
2.8 Calculating Yield
2.9 Statistical Concepts And Market Returns
2.10 Basic Statistical Calculations
2.11 Standard Deviation And Variance
2.12 Skew And Kurtosis
2.13 Basic Probability Concepts
2.14 Joint Probability
2.15 Advanced Probability Concepts
2.16 Common Probability Distributions
2.17 Common Probability Distribution Calculations
2.18 Common Probability Distribution Properties
2.19 Confidence Intervals
2.20 Discrete and Continuous Compounding
2.21 Sampling and Estimation
2.22 Sampling Considerations
2.23 Calculating Confidence Intervals
2.24 Hypothesis Testing
2.25 Interpreting Statistical Results
2.26 Correlation and Regression
2.27 Regression Analysis


3. Microeconomics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Supply and Demand
3.3 Price Elasticity
3.4 Elasticity of Demand
3.5 Elasticity of Supply
3.6 Marginal Benefit and Marginal Cost
3.7 Market Efficiency
3.8 Price Ceilings and Floors
3.9 Effect of Taxes on Supply and Demand
3.10 Opportunity Costs
3.11 Achieving Economic & Technological Efficiency
3.12 Types of Markets & Concentration Measures
3.13 Modifying Output
3.14 Marginal and Average Total Cost Curves
3.15 Perfectly Competitive Markets
3.16 Effects on Equilibrium in the Short and Long Run
3.17 Characteristics of Monopolies
3.18 Inefficiencies of Monopolies
3.19 Monopolistic Competition
3.20 Oligopolies
3.21 Conclusion

4. Macroeconomics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
4.3 Nominal vs. Real GDP, and the GDP Deflator
4.4 Limitations of GDP and Alternative Measures
4.5 Components of Marginal Product and Marginal Revenue
4.6 The Demand and Supply of Financial and Physical Capital
4.7 Economic Rent and Opportunity Cost
4.8 Monitoring Cycles, Jobs, and Price Level
4.9 Key Labor Market Indicators
4.10 Types of Unemployment
4.11 The Consumer Price Index & Inflation
4.12 Aggregate Supply & Aggregate Demand
4.13 Short and Long-run Macroeconomic Equilibrium
4.14 Economic Theories
4.15 Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve
4.16 The Banking System
4.17 Goals and Targets of the U.S. Federal Reserve
4.18 Money, Interest, Real GDP, and the Price Level
4.19 The Equation of Exchange
4.20 Inflation
4.21 Phillips Curve
4.22 Fiscal Policy Basics
4.23 Effects of Fiscal Policy
4.24 The Multiplier Effect
4.25 Discretionary Fiscal Policy and Automatic Stabilizers
4.26 Monetary Policy and Price Level Stability
4.27 Expectations of Monetary Policy

5. Global Economic Analysis
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Production Possibility Curves
5.3 Trade Efficiency Rule
5.4 Terms of Trade
5.5 Tariffs and Quotas
5.6 Trade Restrictions
5.7 International Finance
5.8 Purchasing Power Parity and Interest Rate Parity
5.9 Foreign Exchange
5.10 Spread Calculations
5.11 Spot Market Calculations
5.12 Forward Market Calculations
5.13 Interest Applications
5.14 Foreign Exchange Parity Relations
5.15 Currency Appreciation and Depreciation
5.16 Effect of Monetary Policy
5.17 Fixed vs. Pegged Exchange Rate Systems
5.18 Absolute and Relative Purchasing Power Parity
5.19 Relative Purchasing Power Parity

6. Financial Statements
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Financial Statement Analysis
6.3 Accounting Process
6.4 Income Statement Basics
6.5 Income Statement Components
6.6 Income Statement: Non-recurring Items
6.7 Balance Sheet Basics
6.8 Balance Sheet Components - Assets
6.9 Balance Sheet Components - Liabilities
6.10 Balance Sheet Components - Marketable & Nonmarketable Instruments
6.11 Shareholders' (Stockholders') Equity Basics
6.12 Components of Stockholders' Equity
6.13 Accounting for Dividends
6.14 Accounting for Equities
6.15 Revenue Recognition
6.16 Revenue Recognition Methods and Implications
6.17 Revenue Recognition and Accounting Entries
6.18 Revenue Recognition Effects on Cash Flows and Financial Ratios
6.19 The Cash Flow Statement
6.20 Cash Flow Statement Basics
6.21 Cash Flow Computations - Indirect Method
6.22 Cash Flow Computations - Direct Method
6.23 Free Cash Flow
6.24 Management Discussion and Analysis & Financial Statement Footnotes
6.25 The Auditor and Audit Opinion
6.26 Financial Reporting Objectives and Enforcement
6.27 Accounting Qualities
6.28 Setting and Enforcing Global Accounting Standards

7. Financial Ratios
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Internal Liquidity Ratios
7.3 Operating Profitability Ratios
7.4 Return on Investment Ratios
7.5 Operating Efficiency Ratios
7.6 Business Risk Ratios
7.7 Financial Risk Ratios
7.8 Growth Potential Ratios
7.9 Return on Equity and the Dupont System
7.10 Uses and Limitations of Financial Ratios
7.11 Basic Earnings Per Share
7.12 Dilutive Effect of Splits and Dividends
7.13 Dilutive Securities
7.14 Calculating Basic and Fully Diluted EPS in a Complex Capital Structure

8. Assets
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Choosing the Appropriate Accounting Method For Investment Securities
8.3 Accounting for Credit Transactions
8.4 Basics of Inventories
8.5 Effects of Misstated Inventory
8.6 Inventory Valuation
8.7 Inventory Analysis
8.8 Converting LIFO to FIFO
8.9 Converting FIFO to LIFO
8.10 Effects of Inventory Accounting
8.11 Causes of Decline in LIFO Reserve
8.12 Long Term Asset Basics
8.13 Depreciation Accounting
8.14 Accelerated Depreciation
8.15 Natural Resource Assets
8.16 Effects of Capitalizing Vs. Expensing
8.17 Computing the Effects of Capitalizing vs. Expensing
8.18 Capitalizing Intangible Assets
8.19 Depreciation
8.20 Fixed Asset Disclosures
8.21 Asset Impairment

9. Liabilities
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Current Liability Basics
9.3 Income Tax Terminology
9.4 Tax Deferred Liabilities
9.5 Permanent Vs. Temporary Items
9.6 Adjustments To Financial Statements From Tax Rate Changes
9.7 Long-Term Liability Basics
9.8 Journal Entries and Accounting Impact
9.9 Total Interest Cost Components
9.10 Reporting The Retirement Or Conversion of Bonds
9.11 Accounting For Long-Term Liabilities
9.12 Post-Retirement Obligations
9.13 Effects Of Debt Issuance
9.14 Implications Of Debt Issuance
9.15 Effect Of Changing Interest Rate On Debt Market Value
9.16 Capital And Operating Leases
9.17 Effects Of Capital Vs. Operating Leases
9.18 Determining The Value Of The Lease And The Lease Asset
9.19 Sale And Leaseback
9.20 Types Of Off-Balance-Sheet Financing
9.21 Effects Of Off-Balance Sheet Financing Transactions On Financial Ratios
9.22 Accounting For Leases

10. Red Flags
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Managerial Discretion
10.3 Shenanigans
10.4 What Causes Shenanigans And Manipulation?
10.5 Finding Shenanigans

11. Corporate Finance
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Agent-Principle Relationship
11.3 Capital Budgeting Basics
11.4 The Cost of Capital
11.5 Cost of Retained Earnings
11.6 Cost of Newly Issued Stock
11.7 Target Capital Structure
11.8 Marginal Cost of Capital
11.9 Factors Affecting the Cost of Capital
11.10 Payback Period
11.11 Net Present Value (NPV) and the Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
11.12 The NPV Profile
11.13 Cash Flow and NPV Applications
11.14 Advantages and Disadvantages of the NPV and IRR Methods
11.15 Applying NPV Analysis to Project Decisions
11.16 Comparing Projects With Unequal Lives
11.17 Types of Risk
11.18 Risk-Analysis Techniques
11.19 Security Market Line and Beta Basics
11.20 Factors that Influence a Company's Capital-Structure Decision
11.21 Business and Financial Risk
11.22 Operating Leverage and its Effects on a Project's Expected Rate of Return
11.23 Financial Leverage
11.24 Sales and Leverage
11.25 Effects of Debt on the Capital Structure
11.26 Tax and Bankruptcy Costs
11.27 The MM Capital Structure vs. The Tradeoff Theory of Leverage
11.28 Signaling Prospects Through Financing Decisions
11.29 Degree of Total Leverage
11.30 Dividend Theories
11.31 Dividend Growth Rate and the Effect of Changing Dividend Policy
11.32 Setting Dividends
11.33 Dividend Payment Procedures
11.34 Stock Dividends and Repurchases

12. Securities Markets
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Issuing Bonds
12.3 Types of Markets
12.4 Exchange Market Structure
12.5 Exchange Market Characteristics
12.6 Short Selling
12.7 Buying on Margin and Maintenance Margin
12.8 Effects of the Institutionalization of capital markets
12.9 Characteristics of Security Indexes
12.10 Computing Indexes
12.11 Domestic vs. Global Indexes
12.12 The Efficient Market Hypothesis
12.13 Weak, Semi-Strong and Strong EMH
12.14 Market Anomalies
12.15 Implications of Efficient Markets

13. Equity Investments
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Security Valuation
13.3 The Dividend Discount Model (DDM)
13.4 DDM and the Earnings Multiplier
13.5 Developing Input Estimates Used in the DDM
13.6 Earnings Analysis
13.7 Determining the EPS of a Company
13.8 Life Cycle Analysis: The Business Cycle
13.9 Life Cycle Analysis: The Industry Life Cycle
13.10 The Concentration Ratio and the Herfindahl Index
13.11 Considerations of Global Industry Competition
13.12 Analyzing a Company - Types of Stock
13.13 Technical Analysis
13.14 Using Price Multiples

14. Fixed Income Investments
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Bond Features
14.3 Basic Coupon Structures
14.4 Early Retirement
14.5 Provisions for Redeeming Bonds
14.6 Refunding
14.7 The Importance of Embedded Options
14.8 Institutional Investors and Financing Purchases
14.9 Interest Rate Risk
14.10 Call and Prepayment Risk
14.11 Reinvestment Risk
14.12 Yield Curve Risk
14.13 Credit Risk
14.14 Liquidity Risk
14.15 Exchange-Rate Risk
14.16 Volatility Risk
14.17 Inflation Risk
14.18 Event Risk
14.19 Pricing Bonds
14.20 Duration
14.21 International Bonds
14.22 Government Bonds
14.23 Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS)
14.24 Federal Issues
14.25 Bondholder's Rights
14.26 Other Types of Bonds
14.27 Asset-Backed Securities (ABS)
14.28 Yield Curves
14.29 The Term Structure of Interest Rates
14.30 Types of Yield Measures
14.31 Intermarket vs. Intramarket Sector Spreads
14.32 Options and their Benefits
14.33 After Tax Yield of a Taxable Security
14.34 London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR)
14.35 Bond Valuation Basics
14.36 Cash Flow
14.37 Bond Value and Price
14.38 Arbitrage-free Valuation Approach
14.39 Typical Yield Measures
14.40 Assumptions Underlying Traditional Yield Curve Measures
14.41 Importance of Reinvestment Income and Reinvestment Risk
14.42 Spot Rates and Bond Valuation
14.43 Differentiating Between Spreads
14.44 What are Forward Rates?
14.45 Forward Rates vs Spot Rates
14.46 Measuring Interest Rate Risk
14.47 Price Volatility
14.48 Effective, Modified, and Macaulay Duration
14.49 Convexity
14.50 Price Value of a Basis Point (PVBP)

15. Derivatives
15.1 Introduction
15.2 What is a Derivative?
15.3 Common Characteristics of Futures and Forwards
15.4 Fundamental Differences Between Futures and Forwards
15.5 Forward Contracts
15.6 Future Contracts
15.7 Options: Calls and Puts
15.8 Options: Basic Characteristics
15.9 Swaps
15.10 Purposes and Benefits of Derivatives
15.11 Criticisms of Derivatives
15.12 Arbitrage
15.13 Forward Markets and Contracts: Settlement Procedures
15.14 Terminating a Forward Contract Prior to Expiration
15.15 End Users and Dealers
15.16 Equity Forward Contracts
15.17 Forward Contracts on Bonds
15.18 Eurodollar Time Deposit Markets
15.19 Characteristics of Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs)
15.20 Currency Forward Contracts
15.21 Futures vs. Forwards
15.22 Futures Markets Margin
15.23 The Futures Trade Process
15.24 Computing the Margin Balance for a Futures Account
15.25 Closing and Terminating a Futures Position
15.26 Other Types of Derivatives
15.27 European vs. American Options and Moneyness
15.28 Exchange Traded Options
15.29 Interest Rate Options vs. FRAs
15.30 Interest Rate Caps and Floors
15.31 Minimum and Maximum Values for Options
15.32 Straddles and Strangles
15.33 Option Prices and the Time to Expiration
15.34 Put-Call Parity
15.35 Effect of Cash Flows on Put-Call Parity and the Lower Bounds
15.36 Swap Markets and Contracts
15.37 Currency Swaps
15.38 Interest Rate and Equity Swaps
15.39 Managing Risk with Options Strategies: Long and Short Call and Put Positions
15.40 Managing Risk with Options Strategies: Covered Calls and Protective Puts

16. Alternative Investments
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Open and closed-end funds
16.3 Net Asset Value
16.4 Fees
16.5 Investment Strategies
16.6 Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
16.7 Real Estate Investments
16.8 Real Estate Calculations
16.9 The Stages in Venture Capital Investing
16.10 Venture Capital Investment Characteristics and NPV
16.11 Hedge Fund Basics
16.12 Hedge Fund Classifications
16.13 Hedge Fund Risks and Performance
16.14 Fund of Funds Investing
16.15 Alternative Investment Valuation
16.16 Commodities as Alternative Investments

17. Portfolio Management
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Rate of Return Basics
17.3 The Risk Premium
17.4 The Security Market Line (SML)
17.5 The Portfolio Management Process
17.6 Return Objectives and Investment Constraints
17.7 Portfolio Management Theories
17.8 Portfolio Calculations
17.9 Capital Market Theory
17.10 The Capital Market Line
17.11 The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

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