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Comprehensive Final Exam in Finance

Solidify and demonstrate your knowledge and abilities in finance fundamentals, financial accounting, quantitative finance, and derivatives markets in this comprehensive assessment. This is the final requirement of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.

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Estimated: 4 weeks, 10-14 hours per week
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About this Course

The Comprehensive Final Exam (CFx) is the culminating exam for the MicroMasters Program in Finance. The CFx is offered twice annually (Spring and Fall) and consists of two 180-minute, online, virtually proctored tests covering material from all five courses.

To qualify for the CFx, learners must earn certificates in all five courses by the eligibility cutoff date.

Refer to the program overview for upcoming CFx and eligibility cutoff dates.

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Prerequisites

Course certificates in all five Finance MicroMasters courses:

15.415.1x Foundations of Modern Finance I

15.415.2x Foundations of Modern Finance II

15.516x Financial Accounting

15.455x Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance

15.435x Derivatives Markets: Advanced Modeling and Strategies

Meet your instructors

Egor Matveyev

Executive Director of MicroMasters Program in Finance

Egor Matveyev is an Executive Director of the MicroMasters Program in Finance and a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research interests are in the fields of corporate finance, organizational economics, and corporate governance. Matveyev’s work has studied corporate director labor markets, the impact of management teams and CEOs on firm value and performance, and the challenges investors face in valuing firms’ investment options. At MIT Sloan, he teaches 15.401 Managerial Finance and 15.434 Advanced Corporate Finance.

Matveyev holds an MA in Economics from the New Economic School in Moscow and a PhD in Finance from the University of Rochester.

Current Research Focus: Matveyev’s current research focus is corporate finance, with a particular interest in the role of top corporate executives in creating firm value and its implications for executive compensation and the design of corporate governance systems. Current research projects include measuring the value of CEOs, allocation of executive skill across firms, and the role of non-pay job characteristics in the executive and director labor markets.