CFI is strongly committed to our mission, vision, and values. Because who we are and the values we keep have everything to do with the value you get.

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Our mission

The ongoing mission of Corporate Finance Institute is simple: Enhance the skills, knowledge, and productivity of finance professionals. This means:

• Giving individual learners the content and tools to build new skills, gain confidence, work more effectively and efficiently, and get the jobs and recognition they care about.
• Give organizations a powerful, easily-implemented training resource to identify and close skills gaps, boost productivity, improve the quality and impact of overall finance skills, and increase employee retention through engaging learning experiences.

Our vision

Our vision is to be an enduring resource for finance professionals worldwide as they build their path to success. We aim to support each step of every customer’s career journey in a high-value and high-impact way.

This includes a commitment to putting our customers’ needs first and being laser-focused on value. Earning and maintaining credibility in our expertise and the trust of our learners and users. Setting the highest standard for content quality and product functionality. And providing meaningful resources for every customer at any stage of their finance career—now and in the future.

Our values

CFI’s values define who we are as an organization, how we work together as a team, and the ways in which we interact with and deliver value to our learners and customers.

Ambitious

We’re passionate about creating a world-class learning experience and productivity tools. Driven to provide a global go-to resource for current and aspiring finance professionals, we’ll accept nothing short of excellence for CFI and Macabacus customers.

Creative

We strive for innovation and welcome diverse perspectives to offer the best possible customer experience. Creative approaches and reframing are encouraged to give finance professionals the best real-world solutions to real-world problems.

Accountable

We set the highest standard of excellence as our benchmark, own our mistakes, and treat them as learning opportunities. Our content and products are relied on by customers to be relevant, applicable, valuable, and up-to-date—expectations we aim to exceed.

Data-Driven

We make decisions based on data and actionable insights, approaching everything with an informed and user-centric mindset. Consistent experimentation is encouraged to definitively understand what delivers the most value to our customers.

Inclusive

We foster a collaborative environment fueled by open-mindedness and feedback. As an international brand with over one million learners and professional customers, we’re mindful of creating a unified, accessible learning experience everyone can benefit from.

Agile

We’re designed to be adaptable, innovative, and resilient in the face of change. Being flexible in our solutions while maintaining core product integrity allows us to quickly and proactively respond to customer needs—without sacrificing quality.

Ambitious

Creative

Accountable

Data-Driven

Inclusive

Agile

Our culture

Recognized for our work-life balance, open-mindedness, and commitment to make financial education accessible for everyone, we strive to create the best possible place to work.

While our employees work from all around the globe, our headquarters are in Vancouver. Technology helps us stay connected and keep our teams together, no matter where they are located.

Meet Our Team