CFA Level 1 Accelerate Batch is SSEI’s self-paced CFA Level 1 course for working professionals, career-switchers, and serious aspirants. Learn through under 300 hours of expert-led recorded lectures, a week-by-week study plan, and weekend live problem-solving workshops.
This course includes
- Under 300 hours of expert-taught video — the complete live-batch recordings covering every CFA Institute learning objective and reading
- Week-by-week study roadmap — a clear schedule telling you exactly which readings, videos, and practice sets to complete each week
- Topic pacing guide — calibrated to your chosen exam window (Aug 2026 · Nov 2026 · Feb 2027 · May 2027 · Aug 2027 · Nov 2027)
- Weekend Live Problem-Solving Workshops — every weekend, faculty (Sanjay Sir · Budhaditya · Anurag Sir) works through practice questions on the specific topics the roadmap assigned that week
- Recorded workshop archive — missed a session? Catch the recording later, no penalty
- Self-practice combined book — (questions + answers), shipped in hardcopy
- Audio summaries — for revision on commutes or between meetings
- 100+ weekly and topic-wise mocks — across the curriculum
- 2 Full-Length Mock Tests — practice before the real exam with two complete mock tests.
- 1.5× Views permanent recorded access — You can watch the complete course content for up to one-and-a-half times its total class duration. —1.5x views
Curriculum
Quantitative Methods
- Returns of Financial Assets and Instruments
- Types of Financial Returns
- Benchmarking Returns
- The Time Value of Money in Finance
- Statistical Characteristics of Asset Returns
- Statistical Distributions Financial Asset price and Returns
- Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
- The Return and Risk of a Financial Portfolio
- Simulation of Financial Assets Prices and Returns
- Applications of Simple Linear Regression in Finance
- Introduction to Financial Data Science
Economics
- The Firm and Market Structures
- Understanding Business Cycles
- Fiscal Policy
- Monetary Policy
- Introduction to Geopolitics
- International Trade
- Capital Flows and the FX Markets
- Exchange Rate Calculations
Corporate Finan
- Organizational Forms, Corporate Issuer Features, and Ownership
- Investors and Other Stakeholders
- Corporate Governance: Conflicts, Mechanisms, Risks, and Benefits
- Working Capital and Liquidity
- Capital Investments and Capital Allocation
- Capital Structure
- Business Models
Financial Statement Analysis
- Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
- Analyzing Income Statements
- Analyzing Balance Sheets
- Analysing Statements of Cash Flows I
- Analysing Statements of Cash Flows II
- Analysis of Inventories
- Analysis of Long Term-Assets
- Analysis of Long-Term Liabilities and Equity
- Analysis of Income Taxes
- Financial Reporting Quality
- Financial Analysis Techniques
- Introduction to Financial Statements Modeling
Equities
- Equity Instrument Features
- Equity Jurisdictions, Classes, and the Voting Process
- Equity Issuance and Trading
- Sources of Equity Valuation
- Introduction to Equity Valuation
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Growth Models
- Relative Value Equity Valuation Approaches
- Financial Statement Forecasting in Equity Valuation
- Industry and Competitive Analysis
- Company Analysis: Past, Present, and Future
- Equity Analyst
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model, Market Model and the Other Factor-Based Equity Models
Fixed Income
- Fixed Income Features
- Fixed Income Cash Flows and Types
- Fixed Income Issuance and Trading
- Fixed Income for Corporate Issuers
- Fixed Income for Government Issuers
- Fixed Income Bond Valuation: Prices and Yields
- Yield and Yield Spread Measure for Fixed-Rate Bonds
- Yield and Yield Spread Measures for Floating Rate Note
- The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Spot, Par, and Forward Curves
- Interest Rate Riska and Return
- Yield Based Bond Duration Measures and Properties
- Yield Based Bond Convexity Measures and Portfolio Properties
- Curve Based and Empirical Fixed Income Risk Measures
- Credit Risk
- Credit Analysis for Government Issuers
- Credit Analysis for Corporate Issuers
- Fixed-Income Securitisation
- Asset-Backed Security (ABS) Instrument and Market Features
- Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS) Instrument and Market Features
Derivatives
- Derivative Instrument and Derivative Market Features
- Forward commitment and Contingent Claim Features and Instruments
- Derivative Benefits, Risks, Issuer and Investor Uses
- Arbitrage, Replication and the Cost of Carry in Pricing Derivatives
- Pricing and Valuation of Forward Contracts and for and underlying with Varying Maturities
- Pricing and Valuation of Future Contracts
- Pricing and Valuation of Interest Rates and Other Swaps
- Pricing and Valuation of Options
- Option Replication Using Put-Call Parity
- Valuing a Derivative Using a One Period Binominal Model
Alternative Investments
- Alternative Investment, Features, Methods, and Structures
- Alternate Investment Performance and Returns
- Investment in Private Capital: Equity and Debt
- Real Estate and Infrastructure
- Natural resources
- Hedge Funds
- Introduction to Digital Assets
Portfolio Construction
- Portfolio Risk and Return: Part 1
- Portfolio Risk and Return: Part 2
- Portfolio Management: An Overview
- Basics of Portfolio Planning and Construction
- The Behavioural Biases of Individuals
- Introduction To Risk Management
Ethical and Professional Standards
- Ethics and Trust in the Investment in the Investment Profession
- Code of Ethics and the Standards of Professional Conduct
- Guidance for Standard I: Professionalism
- Guidance for Standard II: Integrity of Capital Markets
- Guidance for Standard III: Duties to Clients
- Guidance for Standard IV: Duties for Employers
- Guidance for Standard V: Investment Analysis, Recommendation and Actions
- Guidance for Standard VI: Conflict of Interest
- Guidance for Standard VII: Responsibilities as a CFA Institute Member or CFA Candidate
- Application of the Code and Standards: Level 1
2027 Syllabus Notes
- GIPS is no longer a standalone L1 reading. Market Efficiency and the standalone Security Market Indexes reading have been removed from L1.
CFA Level 1Fast Track Batch