Mind you, CFA is much more competitive in financial field than an ordinary MSF. Have to remind you that CFA is getting more difficult due to the ever growing candidates. CFA has to increase the benchmark to control the membership. It is much more difficult than five years ago. Do not underestimate it if you decide to do it.
yep, corporates all have planing or budgeting departement. basically at the end of fiscal year, you come up a budget for the next fiscal year~ you try to stick to the budget in the following year and make variance analysis at the end~ then you try to come up a more reasonable budget for later fiscal years~ it might be a quartely basis or even monthly~ depends on the industry you are in~ it is more related to managerial accounting~ pricing is also related to managerial accounting~ it's quite interesting~