{"id":468,"date":"2022-06-09T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:59:01","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/programs\/financial-management\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#\" style=\"margin: 10px 15px;\" class=\"button small\" id=\"collapse\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collapse All<\/a><a href=\"#\" style=\"margin: 10px 15px;\" class=\"button small\" id=\"expand\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Expand All<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">How do you deal with students who enter the program at different levels of experience and knowledge?<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><br \/>\nAll Financial Management students have access to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/programs\/financial-management\/current-students\/self-paced-labs\/\">self-paced introductory labs<\/a>, covering the foundations of business, statistics, R and Python. Each self-paced lab has a follow-up course to cover more in-depth applications.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">How is your Financial Management program accredited?<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>As part of Boston University, Metropolitan College&#8217;s Financial Management programs are accredited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacsb.edu\/educators\/accreditation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">AACSB International\u2014The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neche.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE)<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">I want to become a CFA charter holder. How is the Financial Management program preparing me for the exams?<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>We are a participant in the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program. The Financial Management graduate degree curriculum embeds a significant portion of the CFA\u00ae Program Candidate Body of Knowledge\u2122 (CBOK) and covers the Standards of Practice Handbook, offering excellent preparation for the internationally recognized Chartered Financial Analyst\u00ae (CFA) Program exams.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Can I obtain a scholarship for the CFA exam if I am a student in the Financial Management program?<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Yes! The Financial Management program is affiliated with the CFA institute, and we are therefore able to grant a number of scholarships for the CFA exams to enrolled students.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collapse AllExpand All<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19676,"featured_media":0,"parent":376,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/3093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/adminsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}