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CFA study notes written from the curriculum up.
WSU Notes is our own set of original CFA study notes — one book per topic, built directly from the official curriculum, checked for completeness, and rewritten in original, exam-focused language. Ten topics. Every Learning Outcome. Worked examples and practice built in.
Source-Grounded
Written from the curriculum — and checked against it.
WSU Notes isn't a summary of someone else's summary. Each reading is written directly from the official CFA curriculum and key concepts, then verified line by line: every bold term the sources define, we define too; every key concept they list, we cover.
The result is a set of notes you can actually trust for the exam — complete, aligned, and free of the gaps and filler you get from scraped content.
Curriculum-alignedCompleteness-checkedGlossary & term indexSource-verified
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Three Principles
Grounded, structured, and written to be studied.
Every book is built on the same three commitments — designed to make the notes accurate, exam-aligned, and genuinely pleasant to learn from.
Source-grounded
Built from the curriculum, not memory
Every reading is written directly from the official CFA materials and cross-checked for completeness — every term the curriculum defines, WSU defines too. When a point can't be supported by the source, it doesn't go in.
Curriculum-alignedCompleteness-checkedNothing invented
LOS-structured
Organised the way you're tested
Each topic is a book, each chapter a subtopic, and each reading maps to a single Learning Outcome — so what you study lines up exactly with what the exam asks of you.
Book → Chapter → ReadingOne reading per LOSAll 10 topics
Original & exam-focused
Rewritten in plain, original language
Worked examples use fresh numbers, curriculum exhibits are redrawn as clean tables and charts, and every reading closes with dense, exam-style practice — no filler, no scraped text.
Original wordingWorked examplesPractice built in
Learn By Doing
See the concept. Work it. Then test it.
Every idea is taught the way it sticks — a short intuition, the formula that matters, then a worked example you can follow end to end. And when a page won't click, a full financial calculator and the WSU Assistant are one tap away: highlight a passage, hit Explain, and keep moving.
Built-in financial calculator
A full CFA-style financial calculator opens right inside the reader — run TVM, cash-flow and rate problems without leaving the page.
WSU Assistant, in context
It sees the page you're on — highlight any passage and hit Explain to get it in plain English, with links back into the notes.
Worked examples & practice
Every reading has step-by-step worked examples and exam-style practice with fully explained answers.
Key formulas, boxed
The equation that matters is set apart in a titled callout you can find at a glance.
One Reader
A reader built to study in.
Highlight in four colours, resize the text, flip to dark mode, track your progress page by page, jump by chapter, and search the whole book. The WSU Notes reader is built to study in — not just read.
Highlight & annotate
Mark up the page in four colours and bookmark anything you want to return to.
Text size & dark mode
Size the type to your liking and switch to dark mode for late-night sessions.
Progress tracking
A live page counter and progress bar show exactly how far through each book you are.
Search & chapters
Jump by chapter or search the whole book for any term, formula, or concept in seconds.
A Real Study Companion
Made to feel like a book worth keeping.
Serif headings, generous margins, numbered readings, chapter intros, and a glossary in the back — WSU Notes is designed like a proper textbook, not a wall of web text. It reads like something worth studying from.
The same content, the same care — whether you're at your desk or on your phone between meetings.
How They're Built
From the curriculum to a finished book.
01
Analyse
We map every Learning Outcome to the exact curriculum pages and extract every term and key concept that must be covered.
02
Author
Each reading is written from those sources in original, exam-focused language — intuition, formulas, worked examples, and practice.
03
Verify
Every reading is checked for factual accuracy, completeness, and originality — line by line, against the sources.
04
Polish
Chapter intros, captions, clean figures, and a glossary are added so the finished book reads like a textbook.
Get WSU Notes
Start free today — or keep it in print.
Try every topic in the digital reader for free — no commitment. Prefer paper? Order the printed book and study offline, annotate, and keep it on your shelf.
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The printed WSU Notes — available for CFA Level I, II & III. Pick your level, then study offline, annotate, and keep it on your shelf.
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Not sure yet? Start with the free digital version — try it first, and grab the printed book whenever you're ready.