IT and CFA

Can someone explain why so many individuals are jumping from IT to finance? I’ve never understood this.

synergy.

>$potential

I should know. I was a programmer. After I had to read through thousands lines of code written by others, understand the 1’s and 0’s, and doing complex computations in my head, I reasoned that reading a company’s financials can’t be that hard…

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