How much does a First Finance certification cost?
The published headline is EUR 3,990 net. That is the vendor's price for a full Executive Online Certificate program - ICCF@HEC Paris over 19 weeks, and the same EUR 3,990 figure for the ICCF2, Strategy, ESCP finance, and Dauphine-PSL performance-management certificates at 18 to 24 weeks. The price buys the complete online tutored program: courses, case studies, live sessions, and the proctored final exam that gates the certificate.
Two honest qualifications. First, the vendor's site is French-first, and these are program prices - no official source publishes a standalone exam fee for booking the Pearson VUE sitting by itself; any exam-level charge confirms inside the signed-in Pearson account. Second, the vendor's own C-SUITE Directeur financier program sits far above the certificate family at EUR 17,900 over twelve months (EUR 14,900 for individuals) - do not let a roundup quote you the certificate price for the executive program or the reverse.
The published program prices, certificate by certificate
From the vendor's homepage and finance category page, retrieved 2026-10-20, the Executive Online Certificate family prices uniformly: ICCF@HEC Paris - the International Certificate in Corporate Finance - runs 19 weeks at EUR 3,990 net; ICCF2@HEC Paris, the M&A and financing-engineering sequel, runs 18 weeks at EUR 3,990; Strategie@HEC Paris runs 24 weeks at EUR 3,990; Finance de marche @ESCP Business School runs 18 weeks at EUR 3,990; and Piloter la performance @Universite Paris Dauphine-PSL runs 18 weeks at EUR 3,990.
Every one of those is the same product shape: 100 percent online, tutored, with continuous assessment and a final exam delivered through Pearson VUE. Session dates move cohort by cohort and the vendor's own pages disagree for some certificates, so this page deliberately omits next-session dates - the prices and durations are the stable, published figures.
Above the certificate family sits the C-SUITE Directeur financier program: twelve months, online tutored plus in-person, at EUR 17,900 with a EUR 14,900 individual rate. It shares the brand but not the product - it is a year-long executive program, not an Executive Online Certificate.
What financing routes does the vendor publish?
The financing layer is France-specific and worth reading before you pay sticker. ICCF@HEC Paris is eligible for the CPF - France's personal training account - under fiche RS5542, registered 15-10-2021 with HEC Paris as the certificateur, and the vendor says over 10,000 people have funded a First Education Online program through their CPF account. Alongside the CPF, the vendor publishes payment in up to four card installments without fees, employer financing through company training plans, and a France Travail route with the published reference 14_AF_0000132594.
The refund policy is blunt and worth quoting exactly: registration fees are not refunded if you abandon the program. Deferral is the softer path - free with valid sick-leave or maternity proof, otherwise subject to partial re-registration fees. These are the vendor's program terms, published on the ICCF page; they are not Pearson's exam terms, and the two should never be conflated.
Is there a separate exam fee?
Not on any public page. Pearson's FIRST FINANCE program page routes scheduling, rescheduling, and cancellation through the Pearson web account, and the live FIRSTFINANCE exam list renders publicly - but the exam-details step signs you in, which is where any exam-level pricing would confirm. Neither Pearson nor the vendor publishes a standalone exam fee for the ICCF or its siblings, and this page says so rather than laundering a prep-site guess into a fact.
For the enrolled candidate the question is usually academic: the EUR 3,990 program includes the final exam as its gate. The separate-fee question matters to anyone pricing a sitting on its own - and the honest answer is that the number lives inside the Pearson booking path. When Exam Assist handles a sitting, the service fee is a separate line from every official charge, due only after the agreed result posts.
Who is behind the price tag?
First Finance Group has operated since 1996 and reports more than 150,000 people trained and 40,000 executives certified across more than 50 countries, with 25,000 regulatory certifications delivered by First Finance itself and 6,000 by partner schools. First Education Online, its online brand, is the exclusive distributor of the Executive Online Certificates - the format the group pioneered in 2014 - and the vendor reports 16,000 alumni and a 90 percent satisfaction rate, with QUALIOPI certification and OPQF qualification on the training side.
The price buys into that structure: the certificate is co-delivered by the partner school - HEC Paris for the ICCF - and First Education Online, with a unique digital identification key on the credential. The vendor also publishes excellence scholarships for participants in sub-Saharan Africa with its academic partners, a discount surface most English-language roundups never mention.
The short version
A First Finance Executive Online Certificate costs a published EUR 3,990 net across the family - ICCF at 19 weeks, the siblings at 18 to 24 - with CPF eligibility, four-times payment, employer, and France Travail routes, a strict no-refund-on-abandonment policy, and free deferral on documented sick leave or maternity. No official source publishes a standalone exam fee; that figure, if any, confirms inside the Pearson account.
If your real question is the cost of getting the exam sitting handled rather than the program, that is the service this site runs: Exam Assist manages the ICCF sitting end to end - registration, delivery logistics, technical setup, and the proctored exam - and the service fee is due only after the agreed result posts. Start at the booking page for a straight feasibility answer.