What to know
Identify the rule, formula, or decision criterion before reading the answer choices. CFA Level I distractors often use the right vocabulary with the wrong condition.
Ethical and Professional Standards
Standard V(B) Communication practice questions
Standard V(B) Communication is part of CFA Level I Ethical and Professional Standards. Ethics questions test judgment under the Code and Standards, especially duties to clients, employers, markets, and the CFA Program. Use this page to review the controlling ideas, then work through 4 questions with answer explanations and common traps.
Review the worked explanations before moving into adaptive practice. The app version can mix this topic with due reviews and weak related concepts.
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Work each item under time pressure, then compare your reasoning with the step-by-step explanation and key takeaway.
Review signal
Missed questions should become scheduled reviews when the error comes from a concept gap, formula setup, or answer-choice trap.
Ethical and Professional Standards
Standard V(B) Communication
A research report most appropriately should distinguish between:
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Standard V(B) Communication
A report recommends a complex structured note but omits liquidity risk and key assumptions. The most direct concern is:
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Standard V(B) Communication
A firm materially changes its investment process from fundamental analysis to short-term technical trading. Existing clients should most appropriately be:
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Standard V(B) Communication
A quantitative fund changes from a value model to a value-momentum model, materially changing turnover and drawdown behavior. The manager says only that the fund uses disciplined quantitative selection. The communication is least appropriate because it omits:
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