Difference between Charter and Certification?

a charter grants the right to do something. a certification specifies you have the skills necessary to perform a certain task.
for example, you may be very well certified to be a financial analyst, but a CFA is a charter that allows you to state you are amongst the top investment professionals in the world.
I think a charter has a stronger meaning.
thats why you dont say someone is CFA. you say someone is a CFA charter holder.
 
My initial understanding was that a Charter is akin to a license and it disallows people other than the charter holder to do certain things thanks to the enforceable authority behind it. e.g. Chartered Accountants.
Once I learned about CFA, I realized that the two can be used interchangeably as long as you can have people agree to it.
 
A charter is a big piece of paper saying that you have the right to do something (in this case, put CFA after your name, provided you’ve paid up).
A certificate is small piece of paper saying that you have done something.
A diploma is like a ploma, except you have two of them.
 
BayStreet Wrote:
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> a charter grants the right to do something. a
> certification specifies you have the skills
> necessary to perform a certain task.
>
> for example, you may be very well certified to be
> a financial analyst, but a CFA is a charter that
> allows you to state you are amongst the top
> investment professionals in the world.
>
> I think a charter has a stronger meaning.
>
> thats why you dont say someone is CFA. you say
> someone is a CFA charter holder.
I don’t think you can drop the ‘since I’m a charterholder I’m among the top investment professionals in the galazy’, can you?
 
bchadwick Wrote:
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> A charter is a big piece of paper saying that you
> have the right to do something (in this case, put
> CFA after your name, provided you’ve paid up).
>
> A certificate is small piece of paper saying that
> you have done something.
>
> A diploma is like a ploma, except you have two of
> them.
oh bchad. you’re what every man needs on a higher than expected jobless claims Thursday morn…
 
jcole21 Wrote:
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> BayStreet Wrote:
> ————————————————–
> —–
> > a charter grants the right to do something. a
> > certification specifies you have the skills
> > necessary to perform a certain task.
> >
> > for example, you may be very well certified to
> be
> > a financial analyst, but a CFA is a charter
> that
> > allows you to state you are amongst the top
> > investment professionals in the world.
> >
> > I think a charter has a stronger meaning.
> >
> > thats why you dont say someone is CFA. you say
> > someone is a CFA charter holder.
>
>
> I don’t think you can drop the ‘since I’m a
> charterholder I’m among the top investment
> professionals in the galazy’, can you?
No. Ethics part of the curriculum clearly states you can’t make a statement like that
 
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