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Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting 

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Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting
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Overview

With household budgets feeling the pinch this course shows how to bring order to your finances and make good financial decisions.

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Official Website

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Credential

Certificate

Future job roles

Accounts Manager Commercial Banking, Senior Manager - Operations (F & A) , Asset Allocation, Team Head-Finance & Margin Management , Business Development

Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Access to this course for 6 weeks
  • Offered by The Open University
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Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting
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FutureLearn 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Identify and understand how financial needs change over the life course
  • Identify, understand and Apply a model for financial decision-making
  • Identify and appreciate how human behaviour affects financial decisions
  • Identify and understand the impact of inflation and tax on incomes
  • Apply and appreciate the social and economic factors that influence spending
  • Design and manage a household budget
  • Identify and understand insurance products and when to buy them
More about this course
  • This online courses explore how current economic conditions impact household finances, before showing you how to manage yours more effectively.You will find out whether you have bad financial habits and how to address them; discover a simple four-stage model for making sound financial decisions; examine the two components of household budgeting ?? income and expenditure ?? and how to manage them; and look at a key area of household spending ?? insurance.

Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Financial planning over the life course

Prioritising plans

Human behaviour and financial decisions

Applying a financial decision-making model

Income and inflation

Income and taxation

Government benefits

Factors influencing household expenditure

Creating and managing a household budget

Understanding when to buy insurance products

The range of insurance products

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