Prepare for the CFA® Exam with a structured learning experience delivered by BINUS Executive Education. Learn from CFA Charterholders and experienced practitioners through a comprehensive curriculum designed to help you succeed in the CFA exam.
Why Choose BINUS Financial Analyst Academy?
✅ Trusted Preparatory Program Provider since 2002
✅ Experienced CFA® Charterholders & Industry Practitioners
✅ Comprehensive curriculum aligned with the CFA® Program
✅ Flexible weekday & weekend classes
✅ Kaplan Schweser learning resources
✅ Mock exams & exam preparation support
✅ Professional networking opportunities
What You’ll Learn
- Ethical and Professional Standards: Understand the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct, and learn to apply ethical principles, professional standards, and ethical decision-making in investment management.
- Quantitative Methods: Apply quantitative techniques, including the time value of money, statistical measures, probability concepts, sampling, hypothesis testing, and data analysis, to support financial analysis and investment decisions.
- Economics: Understand microeconomic and macroeconomic principles, market structures, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, and international trade and currency exchange rates to assess their impact on financial markets and investment performance.
- Financial Statement Analysis: Analyze financial statements, evaluate the quality of financial reporting, and interpret key financial ratios to assess a company’s profitability, financial position, cash flows, and overall performance for investment analysis and valuation.
- Corporate Finance: Understand corporate governance, capital budgeting, the cost of capital, capital structure, and working capital management to evaluate corporate financial decisions and their implications for shareholder value.
- Equities: Learn the fundamentals of equity markets, market organization, equity securities, and company valuation. Develop the ability to analyze equity investments using relevant valuation concepts and financial metrics.
- Fixed Income: Understand fixed-income securities, bond valuation, interest rate risk, credit risk, and yield measures to evaluate bond investments and assess the risk and return of fixed-income portfolios.
- Derivatives and Risk Management: Understand the fundamentals of forwards, futures, options, and swaps, including their valuation principles and their use in hedging, risk management, and investment strategies.
- Alternative Investments: Explore the main categories of alternative investments, including real estate, private equity, private debt, hedge funds, commodities, and infrastructure, and understand their characteristics, valuation considerations, risks, and potential role in portfolio diversification.
- Portfolio Construction: Understand portfolio risk and return, diversification, systematic and unsystematic risk, and the principles of portfolio construction to evaluate how an investment portfolio can be designed to suit an investor’s objectives and constraints.
Career Opportunities
The CFA® designation opens doors to a wide range of career opportunities in finance, including:
- Investment Analysis: Equity research, fixed-income analysis, and credit analysis
- Portfolio Management: Managing investment portfolios for individuals, institutions, or hedge funds
- Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial risks
- Financial Planning: Providing financial advisory and planning services to individuals and businesses
- Corporate Finance: Working in corporate finance departments, focusing on areas such as mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and financial modeling
Program Modules
The Level 1 preparation program is structured into 57 sessions over 3.5 months, covering the following modules.
| Modules | Number of Sessions |
| Ethical and Professional Standards, Quantitative Methods, Economics + Practice Question 1 | 15 Sessions |
| Financial Statement Analysis + Corporate Finance + Equities + Practice Question 2 | 18 Sessions |
| Asset Valuation + Portfolio Construction + Practice Question 3 + Exam Tips | 18 Sessions |
| Practical Skills + Practice Exam + Explanatory | 6 Sessions |
| TOTAL | 57 Sessions |
Our Experts
- Franky Kumendong, CFA.
Portfolio Manager, Sequis Asset Management
- Budi Rustanto, M.M., CFA, FRM, CSA
Head of Research, OCBC Sekuritas - Andre Varian, CFA, FRM
AIA Financial – Portfolio Manager - Bramantya Egin Pratama, CFA, FRM
Product & Sharia Investment Management Division Head, PT BRI Manajemen Investasi - Christian Linardo, CFA, FRM.
Credit Risk Modelling Head at Bank OCBC NISP - Matthew Fajar, CFA.
Manager of Multi Asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management
- Vivi Handoyo Lie, CFA.
Head of Investment & Advisory at Stockbit/ Bibit - Ferry Wong, MBA., CFA., FRM.
Head of ASEAN Regional Research, Citigroup - Arvy Raoul, CFA.
Investment Professional | Credit & Structured Finance | Risk Management - Galvin Batti, CFA.
Investment Management and M&A Department Head, Sinar Mas Land
- Fernando Prasetya, CFA, FRM
Credit Analyst, Sector Solution Group, UOB Indonesia - Santoso Himawan, CFA, FRM
Independent Practitioner
CFA® Exam Topic Weights
| Topic Area | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 |
| Quantitative Methods | 11 – 14% | 5 – 10% | – |
| Economics | 6 – 9% | 5 – 10% | – |
| Financial Statement Analysis | 11 – 14% | 10 – 15% | – |
| Corporate Finance | 6 – 9% | 5 – 10% | – |
| Equities | 11 – 14% | 10 – 15% | – |
| Fixed Income | 11 – 14% | 10 – 15% | – |
| Derivatives and Risk Management | 6 – 9% | 5 – 10% | 10 – 15% |
| Alternative Investments | 6 – 9% | 5 – 10% | – |
| Portfolio Construction | 8 – 12% | 10 – 15% | 15 – 20% |
| Ethical and Professional Standards | 10 – 15% | 10 – 15% | 10 – 15% |
| Asset Allocation | – | – | 15 – 20% |
| Performance Measurement | – | – | 5 – 10% |
| Pathways | – | – | 30 – 35% |
| TOTAL | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Prerequisites for Taking the CFA® Exam
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in any field. In addition to the bachelor’s degree, candidates should have at least four (4) years of relevant work experience.
- Submit a completed registration form to CFA® Institute together with the exam fee.
- Agree to abide by the CFA® Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct.
Financial Analyst Academy Level 1 Batch 51
Two class options are available:
| Weekdays Class | Weekend Class | |
| Introduction Session To help candidates with a non-finance background |
Saturday, 9 January 2027 (5 Sessions) | |
| Class Sessions (hybrid) | 57 Sessions | 57 Sessions |
| Date | 11 January – 1 May 2027 | 16 January – 1 May 2027 |
| Day | Monday – Wednesday – Friday | Saturday |
| Time | 18.30 – 21.35 WIB | 08.45 – 17.35 WIB |
Financial Analyst Academy Level 2
| Weekend Class Only | |
| Sessions | 43 Sessions (hybrid) |
| Training Schedule | -TBA- |
| Day | Saturday |
| Time | 08.45 – 17.35 WIB (full-day session) |
Preparatory Program Investment Fee
| Package | Fee |
| Complete Package (Level 1 + Introduction) | IDR 16,300,000 (save IDR 1,000,000) |
| Level 1 Program | IDR 15,500,000 |
| Introduction Class | IDR 1,800,000 |
The course fee includes:
- Access to the Extra LMS
- Digital course materials
- Certificate of Attendance
- Complimentary meals (on-site only)
- Complimentary parking (on-site only)
Available Discounts
- 5% Early Bird until 11 December 2026
- 15% BINUSIAN Alumni
- 25% BINUS Undergraduate Students (T&C apply)
- 5 % Corporate rates for groups of 5 or more participants
Payment & Cancellation
- Course fees are net.
- Full payment is required at least 7 days before the program begins.
- Cancellations must be made at least 3 days before the program begins and are subject to an administration fee of Rp100,000.
- No refunds will be issued after the program begins.
- Registrations are non-transferable.
0% Credit Card Installment
- BCA: 3 months
- CIMB Niaga: 6 months
- BNI: 9 months
- BRI: 3, 6, or 12 months
*Valid only for the banks listed above.
*Credit card transactions must be made at the BINUS @Senayan.
Kaplan Schweser Study Packages
Optional Kaplan Schweser study packages are available to enhance your CFA exam preparation.
Prices are valid until 31 January 2027.
| Package | Price | Package Includes |
| Essential (Level 1) |
Rp 9,000,000,- | SchweserNotes™ eBooks, CFA Institute Question Review Videos, Masterclass (OnDemand)*, SchweserPro™ Qbank, CFA Mock Exams (4 Mock Exams), Checkpoint Exams, Performance Tracker, Activity Feed, QuickSheet, Kaplan Schweser Community, Prerequisite Content, JumpStart, Schweser’s PassProtection™ |
| Premium (Level 1) |
Rp 12,000,000,- | SchweserNotes™ eBooks, CFA Institute Question Review Videos, Masterclass (OnDemand)*, SchweserPro™ Qbank, CFA Mock Exams (6 Mock Exams), Checkpoint Exams, Performance Tracker, Schweser’s Secret Sauce®, CFA Review Workshop (OnDemand)*, Activity Feed, QuickSheet, Kaplan Schweser Community, Prerequisite Content, JumpStart, Schweser’s PassProtection™ |
| Essential (Level 2 & 3) |
Rp 9,500,000,- (Level 2) Rp 10,000,000,- (Level 3) |
SchweserNotes™ eBooks, CFA Institute Question Review Videos, Masterclass (OnDemand)*, SchweserPro™ Qbank, CFA Mock Exams (4 Mock Exams), Checkpoint Exams, Performance Tracker, Activity Feed, QuickSheet, Kaplan Schweser Community, Schweser’s PassProtection™ |
| Premium (Level 2 & 3) |
Rp 13,250,000,- (Level 2) Rp 13,750,000,- (Level 3) |
SchweserNotes™ eBooks, CFA Institute Question Review Videos, Masterclass (OnDemand)*, SchweserPro™ Qbank, CFA Mock Exams (6 Mock Exams), Checkpoint Exams, Performance Tracker, Schweser’s Secret Sauce®, CFA Review Workshop (OnDemand)*, Activity Feed, QuickSheet, Kaplan Schweser Community, Schweser’s PassProtection™ |
*Updated by KaplanLearn
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Enroll Now to start your journey towards becoming a future-ready executive!
For More Information, Please Contact Us:
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