What's new - 2009 curriculum

CFA Level II
#1

Hi, Has anyone identified the changes in the L2 curriculum from 2008 to 2009? D.

#2

Hi, Can anyone pass a link or some information regarding changes in syllabus?It owuld be really helpful. Thanks

#3

Here is a link to the 2009 Lii curriculum outline. http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprog/resources/leveliioutline.html

#4

If you do a search, someone here made a very thorough comparison of the curriculum this year to last.

#5

Does CFAI provide an entire new set of books or just one extra book with the new material?

#6

Stalla said that Financial Statements are having a very large change.

#7

Tmeister B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stalla said that Financial Statements are having a > very large change. do you really think any study source provider would say there were only minor, inconsequential changes??

#8

I guess we’ll see.

#9

Tmeister B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stalla said that Financial Statements are having a > very large change. Great. I crushed FSA and now they’re changing it.

#10

So there are no real resources here? We have to manually go through the new material to figure out changes? Seem inefficient…

#11

I would not believe what Stalla has to say about the curriculum. I just eyeballed the FSA sections for next year and it does look like much has changed. I hate it when providers try to lie about curriculum when they are actually their to help us not just make money.

#12

Hi Pylon, I did a search and unfortunately couldn’t find anything related to the L2 2008/2009 comparison. I’ve had a quick glance and it looks like there have been some changes to the FSA (i.e. reshuffling of readings, a couple of removals and additions). Also some additonal reading to AI, FI, PM but no major changes by the looks of things. I’ll do a through comparison this weekend and share it with you all…

#13

Dhillon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I’ll do a through comparison this weekend and > share it with you all… That’s awesome…thanks very much in advance!

#14

When I was at Windsor for Schweser’s SSFA seminar, they indicated that level 1 for 2008 had been changed due to the move towards adopting IFRS accounting. I imagine that level two will be changes to reflect that as well for next year.

#15

Also, structurally, the Level 2 exam is now going to have 3 multiple choice questions as opposed to 4.

#16

don’t forget that the 3rd party vendors are in it to make money - so they try to scare you into believing that a huge amount has changed each year - so you buy more stuff from them. Eg. L2 in 2008 was 30% changed from L2 in 2007 - sounds huge. But at least half of that was simply CFAI switching text books - so the texts/readings were different, but the underlying concepts/LOSs were the same. Eg Economics texts/readings were almost all different (new text books), but the content was the same. The LOSs were worded differently and in different order - but essentially the same old stuff. But there were a few genuine changes - eg Time series was shifted from L3 to L2 in 2008. So, use CFAI stuff as your start point - then supplement with 3rd party stuff if you need to. Don’t base your decision on what the vendors tell you - could be more expensive than it needs to be cheers (I did L2 in 2008)