When will the rest of the Wiley Elan Guides be available?

Does anyone know when the rest of the studyguide for Level II from Wiley Elan be released? Tried asking Wiley directly but they were very unhelpful. Its almost mid December now and the rest of the material is not available yet. So if anyone can tell me when the rest of their stuff will be released I would be very greateful.

So far I am very disappointed with the Wiley’s customer service. Its a shame, since their study material is actually quite great.

For some material they had posted available on Dec 14, i always assume it means 31 Dec 14.

For those will be available on Feb 15, i always assume 28 Feb 2015.

However for the study guide ebook i am pretty sure it will come out before end of Jan 2015 based on this link

http://www.amazon.com/Wiley-Study-Guide-2015-Level/dp/1119045916/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1418278696&sr=8-11&keywords=cfa+level+2

The Analyst Success even didn’t give the estimation date for the availability of L2 material.

It looks like Analyst Success material is ready to ship. At least, the “print materials are not ready to ship yet” thing seems to be gone now.

Yes, the L2 Study Guide (both hard copy and e-book) will be available by 20 January 2015.

Here’s a schedule with dates for other Wiley Elan products: http://www.efficientlearning.com/wiley-cfa/product-availability-schedule/

and what about the rest of vidoes that should be available in December , are we going to expect some delays ?

The remaining seven videos, listed below, will all be available in mid-January. The instructor will be Darren DeGraff.

Reading 1: Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct

Reading 2: Guidance for Standards I-VII

Reading 20: Evaluating Quality of Financial Reports A

Reading 25: Corporate Performance, Governance, and Business Ethics

Reading 33: Discounted Dividend Valuation

Reading 42: The Term Structure and Interest Rate Dynamics

Reading 43: The Arbitrage-Free Valuation Framework

I worked with Darren at Stalla.

He’s a great guy, despite being a Canadian.

You accidentally said “despite being” instead of “because he’s”

You accidentally wrote “because he’s” instead of “for someone who’s”.

wink

Following link has all the details on availability of video, ebooks etc.

http://www.efficientlearning.com/wiley-cfa/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/12/Availability-Schedule-Level-II.pdf

Finally their ebook (study guide) had already been updated… smiley

I am completely puzzled. Are the Elan Notes available on Vital Source? When I asked Wiley, they said no. Here is the e-mail exchange:

“Thank you - this has been incredibly helpful so far. I have one pending issue though: when opening the dashboard on the ipad, I am unable to read the material offline. Is there a way to see the notes as a pdf or similar to the curriculum on your reader software? Thank you once more & best regards”

And the response that Eileen from Wiley sent back was:

"There is no offline material for any of the CFA products. They are all online.

Thanks,

Eileen Customer Service/Technical Support Specialist

Wiley Efficient Learning

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Description: cid:166CC97E-4110-4952-9876-7014560120F6"

Is this true? Does anyone have Vitalsource access?

^^ Everything is available online through Vital Source. I read many pages at work every day through it. Love the convienence.

Elan’s customer service has gotten better since moving to Wiley…but they still baffle me sometimes. All of the sudden I have to pay $120 USD to get the 11th hour guide shipped to me in Canada. No thanks. Secret Sauce here I come.

I figured it out eventually and with the help of Vanessa @Wiley. It was in the end a misunderstanding I guess. You can download all of the books; but I had to delete the app on the tablet and reinstall it. Now I have everything on there which is pretty good! No more excuses. Good luck to everyone!

That sucks, got it for $70 shipped with a discount. #America

I also gave up at the $120 shipping. That’s a completely ridiculous number, even for shipping to Europe.

Replies to various items:

OFFLINE/ONLINE:

There is no offlien video or practice questions … most test prep students tend to think of “offline” in the context of streaming video so Eileen was refering to that aspect. We’ll be more clear in the future. We may develop an offline video streaming feature … but nothing for June exam and probabably not Dec exam.

CANADA SHIPPING:

We’ll look into the canadian shipping charges. There is some customs fees to ship from US to Canada but the shipping cost shouldn’t be that high. You can try Amazon Canada or Wiley Canada: http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119032466.html

Having worked as a shipper receiver for a couple years, I can definitely agree that shipping a single book (even if it was overnight) shouldn’t be anywhere near $100 or more.

Thankfully Amazon had it, so I don’t have to go the secret sauce route. It was almost half the price on Amazon with shipping included!

A better question is when will the website be back up. If it’s down for more than 3 days that’s absolutely horrible, since all your content is online.

Wiley usually is really bad about shipping stuff. So I would recommend if you are really stressing out about the exam to just get the 11th hour from amazon. That way you are guaranteed to get it.

Last year when I was taking level 1 I was sent my 11th hour guide with 30 days left to the exam.

Not going to make the same mistake again.