CFA Level 1 Complete Course Regular Batch

Your Finance Background Meets Structured CFA Preparation

This CFA Level 1 course is designed for students who already have a background in accounting, finance, or business. It builds on what you already know, connects familiar concepts to investment analysis, valuation, markets, and portfolio basics, and helps you prepare for the full CFA Level 1 exam in a structured way.

What you'll learn

• The most detailed CFA course for CA / CMA / MBA Finance students - depth-first content recalibrated for an already-grounded audience
• FSA & Corporate Issuers as review-only modules - no re-teaching the basics
• Fresh, deep teaching on Equities (2027 rebuild), Fixed Income, Derivatives, Quant, Portfolio Construction, and re-segmented Ethics

This course includes

• FSA and Corporate Issuers review-only modules — no re-teaching the basics; revision videos + practice only, so you save weeks
• Audio summaries after every class — revise on the go
• 1.5× Course Hours for recorded content — You can watch the complete course content for up to one-and-a-half times its total class duration. —1.5x views
• Weekly topic-wise mock tests — measure readiness every week, not just before the exam
• Reading-wise quizzes , Subject-wise mocks , Full CBT mocks (with percentile ranking) — exam-condition simulation at three granularities
• Around 3,000 practice questions — across reading-wise quizzes
• PDF class notes — Reading-wise summaries · Mind maps · Spreadsheets — full revision toolkit
• Use telegram for direct doubt-solving access — direct doubt-solving access

Curriculum

Quantitative Methods

• Returns of Financial Assets and Instruments
• Types of Financial Returns
• Benchmarking Returns
• The Time Value of Money in Finance
• Statistical Characteristics of Asset Returns
• Statistical Distributions Financial Asset price and Returns
• Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
• The Return and Risk of a Financial Portfolio
• Simulation of Financial Assets Prices and Returns
• Applications of Simple Linear Regression in Finance
• Introduction to Financial Data Science

Economics

• The Firm and Market Structures
• Understanding Business Cycles
• Fiscal Policy
• Monetary Policy
• Introduction to Geopolitics
• International Trade
• Capital Flows and the FX Markets
• Exchange Rate Calculations

Corporate Finance

• Organizational Forms, Corporate Issuer Features, and Ownership
• Investors and Other Stakeholders
• Corporate Governance: Conflicts, Mechanisms, Risks, and Benefits
• Working Capital and Liquidity
• Capital Investments and Capital Allocation
• Capital Structure
• Business Models

Financial Statement Analysis

• Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
• Analyzing Income Statements
• Analyzing Balance Sheets
• Analysing Statements of Cash Flows I
• Analysing Statements of Cash Flows II
• Analysis of Inventories
• Analysis of Long Term-Assets
• Analysis of Long-Term Liabilities and Equity
• Analysis of Income Taxes
• Financial Reporting Quality
• Financial Analysis Techniques
• Introduction to Financial Statements Modeling

Equities

• Equity Instrument Features
• Equity Jurisdictions, Classes, and the Voting Process
• Equity Issuance and Trading
• Sources of Equity Valuation
• Introduction to Equity Valuation
• Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Growth Models
• Relative Value Equity Valuation Approaches
• Financial Statement Forecasting in Equity Valuation
• Industry and Competitive Analysis
• Company Analysis: Past, Present, and Future
• Equity Analyst
• The Capital Asset Pricing Model, Market Model and the Other Factor-Based Equity Models

Fixed Income

• Fixed Income Features
• Fixed Income Cash Flows and Types
• Fixed Income Issuance and Trading
• Fixed Income for Corporate Issuers
• Fixed Income for Government Issuers
• Fixed Income Bond Valuation: Prices and Yields
• Yield and Yield Spread Measure for Fixed-Rate Bonds
• Yield and Yield Spread Measures for Floating Rate Note
• The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Spot, Par, and Forward Curves
• Interest Rate Risks and Return
• Yield Based Bond Duration Measures and Properties
• Yield Based Bond Convexity Measures and Portfolio Properties
• Curve Based and Empirical Fixed Income Risk Measures
• Credit Risk
• Credit Analysis for Government Issuers
• Credit Analysis for Corporate Issuers
• Fixed-Income Securitisation
• Asset-Backed Security (ABS) Instrument and Market Features
• Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS) Instrument and Market Features

Derivatives

• Derivative Instrument and Derivative Market Features
• Forward commitment and Contingent Claim Features and Instruments
• Derivative Benefits, Risks, Issuer and Investor Uses
• Arbitrage, Replication and the Cost of Carry in Pricing Derivatives
• Pricing and Valuation of Forward Contracts and for and underlying with Varying Maturities
• Pricing and Valuation of Future Contracts
• Pricing and Valuation of Interest Rates and Other Swaps
• Pricing and Valuation of Options
• Option Replication Using Put-Call Parity
• Valuing a Derivative Using a One Period Binominal Model

Alternative Investments

• Alternative Investment, Features, Methods, and Structures
• Alternate Investment Performance and Returns
• Investment in Private Capital: Equity and Debt
• Real Estate and Infrastructure
• Natural resources
• Hedge Funds

Portfolio Construction

• Portfolio Risk and Return: Part 1
• Portfolio Risk and Return: Part 2
• Portfolio Management: An Overview
• Basics of Portfolio Planning and Construction
• The Behavioural Biases of Individuals
• Introduction To Risk Management

Ethical and Professional Standards

• Ethics and Trust in the Investment in the Investment Profession
• Code of Ethics and the Standards of Professional Conduct
• Guidance for Standard I: Professionalism
• Guidance for Standard II: Integrity of Capital Markets
• Guidance for Standard III: Duties to Clients
• Guidance for Standard IV: Duties for Employers
• Guidance for Standard V: Investment Analysis, Recommendation and Actions
• Guidance for Standard VI: Conflict of Interest
• Guidance for Standard VII: Responsibilities as a CFA Institute Member or CFA Candidate
• Application of the Code and Standards: Level 1

2027 Syllabus Notes

• GIPS is no longer a standalone L1 reading. Market Efficiency and the standalone Security Market Indexes reading have been removed from L1. Index calculation now lives under Quant ("Benchmarking Returns").