It is a very popular certificate in finance but was wondering how it is perceived in consulting
I am following this thread to see responses. From my personal experience and looking at job postings it looks like consulting firms prefer PMPs and Lean certifications to CFA. My guess is finance and accounting consulting firms would value the CFA but not so much more general firms.
Depends on what type of consulting you want to do and what you're looking to do in the future as well. In management consulting (like at Mckinsey), i don't hear people discussing this as a value add or even as a concept. so i imagine it's not that popular. if you want to get it for personal development reasons, you should! but in i doubt it'll be professionally helpful in the consulting industry
Consulting as a whole wouldn't care much , but if you had finance projects where you could do finance engineering or advisory work then definitely