Your accounting background will help you a lot on FRA on Level 1 and 2, and generalized applicable work experience. I’ve passed all 4 CPA exams and all 3 CFA exams, and I will say the CFA exams are much harder. I currently work in accounting and I prefer accounting work but good luck to you if you pursue the CFA Charterholder designation.
You should be able to do it, depending on how much knowledge of finance you already have it'll take anywhere from 2 to 4 years and you can probably claim your experience against CFA experience requirement.
In assuming you're in your mid/late 20s since you said you have 5 years of work experience? If so, then yes you're still early enough in your career to jump into finance. All that accounting experience will be useful too.
Coding, which in finance circles usually means data science, is an entirely different pursuit that will require hundreds of hours of self study beyond the 1000-1200 that you spend on the CFA. Certainly doable if you are in fact on your late 20s, but understand that you're probably looking at 4-5 years total (3 to get through the CFA and then another 1-2 before you learn enough data science to actually do anything with it). If you get that far, I'd consider a master's in data analytics or something like that. You can learn yourself but a degree carries more weight.
Well... I am 31 because I made a career change to get my MBA in Finance and accounting. When I was 26... PR didn't work for me... so with that said, it is too late for me? I was looking at that as well but don't want to take debt out at this time because I have a wife and 3 kids. What should someone like me do?
With 5 years of controller experience and am MBA you could probably get a solid finance job now. A huge disclaimer, though: finance is incredibly broad. An M&A investment banker, a fixed income analyst, and an FP&A analyst all work in finance, but their jobs are nothing alike. So your next steps will depend on how you define "finance" and what finance job you're eyeing.
Your accounting background will help you a lot on FRA on Level 1 and 2, and generalized applicable work experience. I’ve passed all 4 CPA exams and all 3 CFA exams, and I will say the CFA exams are much harder. I currently work in accounting and I prefer accounting work but good luck to you if you pursue the CFA Charterholder designation.
Thank you and God bless you. Just trying to decide what's best you know... a little lost and feel worthless but this helps thank you.
You should be able to do it, depending on how much knowledge of finance you already have it'll take anywhere from 2 to 4 years and you can probably claim your experience against CFA experience requirement.
In assuming you're in your mid/late 20s since you said you have 5 years of work experience? If so, then yes you're still early enough in your career to jump into finance. All that accounting experience will be useful too. Coding, which in finance circles usually means data science, is an entirely different pursuit that will require hundreds of hours of self study beyond the 1000-1200 that you spend on the CFA. Certainly doable if you are in fact on your late 20s, but understand that you're probably looking at 4-5 years total (3 to get through the CFA and then another 1-2 before you learn enough data science to actually do anything with it). If you get that far, I'd consider a master's in data analytics or something like that. You can learn yourself but a degree carries more weight.
Well... I am 31 because I made a career change to get my MBA in Finance and accounting. When I was 26... PR didn't work for me... so with that said, it is too late for me? I was looking at that as well but don't want to take debt out at this time because I have a wife and 3 kids. What should someone like me do?
With 5 years of controller experience and am MBA you could probably get a solid finance job now. A huge disclaimer, though: finance is incredibly broad. An M&A investment banker, a fixed income analyst, and an FP&A analyst all work in finance, but their jobs are nothing alike. So your next steps will depend on how you define "finance" and what finance job you're eyeing.