Corporate Finance Institute Reviews - CFI

Anyone with a first-hand experience with this company?

is corporate finance institute legit?

Yes - the Corporate Finance Institute is a legitimate company that offers both free and paid courses to help learn accounting and finance fundamentals. Whether or not having a certification from the CFI will help you in a hiring process is a different story. CFI courses should be considered mainly for educational purposes.

2020 WSO Announcement

WSO is now offering similar courses through the Elite Modeling Package. You can learn more about those financial modeling and other courses here: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/courses

More info on CFI

You can learn a bit more about the company in the below video.

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interested in this as well, how does it compare to WSP and BIWS? it is cheaper, run by a guy from dartmouth and has experience in ibd in canada (big 5)

 
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