What is the CFP Exam?

Question

What is the importance of the CFP? Does anyone know much about this, is the exam pretty easy for someone with a finance degree? Anything you know about it will help.

Answer 1

Here are the sections on the CFP exam:

General Principles of Financial Planning
Insurance Planning and Risk Management
Employee Benefits Planning
Investment Planning
Income Tax Planning
Retirement Planning
Estate Planning

Many people take a special exam prep class just to prepare for this test, because it covers so much material. You can also buy books to review for it.