3 Months is enough for CFA 1, it's mostly what you've already learned in your undergra assuming you studied Accounting or Finance. approx 25% will come from basic accounting principles/ financial reporting and about another 25% coming from basic corporate finance. Level 1 is basically 2 line questions. Get some extra learning materials, Kaplan books, CFA books are too detail and long stories.

If your undergraduate is not in FINANCE/Accounting or Business in that matter, it will take you longer to master the concepts. With basic accounting/ Finance/ Economics, you might pass level 1 but the bigger question is are you going to complete the entire program? Considering the fact that it get hard in level 2 and level 3. It's expensive, we're talking about between Kshs 60k-120k, per level, only to register before you even add additional material to study.

Maybe take the MSC Finance path and once you're done then you can go for CFA? MSC Finance will provide a good prep for derivavtive and financial instruments that you'll have to master to pass CFA

Have you considered that there is no Level 1 sitting in Kenya in December?

I really feel sorry for this young guys they overpay to only be taught formulas, which in real life don't even work, remember there were more than 20,000 economist and analyst in wall street, most of whom went to Ivy league schools,and none fore saw the eminent disaster in 2008, you need to know that studying investing is a life long journey, things are changing everyday has any of you even picked up any Kenyan public company financial statement and seen the amount of changes IFRS has put forward since the last recession. Yet CFA is supposed to be an analyst heaven,thinking you know and knowing are two very different things, I read a story of one lady who at first tell us how it was struggle to finish her CFA exams and at the end after clearing with her CFA exams she became a bond analyst, simple logic should tell you that over the last 100 years bonds have probably beaten stocks returns wise for only 2 or 6 years out of the 100 years,talk of a career choice. It's not investing that matters its successfully doing it over a long period of time even during down years. That means having a strategy and sticking to it. With all the CFA's in Kenya none stand out as a voice of reason even when fraud is committed, so was there fraud in KQ you may never know if all your energy is focused on excelling in exams.

I thought they were only 37 CFA's in the whole of Kenya.

That's about only one CFA per million people!

I have the 2016 notes from shweser and CFA institute plus over 4000 questions from shweser also for 2016...my email: infoexpressoagencies@gmail.com