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Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet 

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Overview

Explore household assets (investments, property and pensions) and liabilities (debts). Find out how to manage each effectively.

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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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: Managing the Household Balance Sheet
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Highlights

  • Access to this course for 6 weeks
  • Offered by The Open University
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Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet
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Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Identify and understand the different forms of borrowing and the cost of debt
  • Explore the different ways to invest and the returns provided by different investments
  • Identify and understand how to buy and sell property
  • Explore the ways to plan for a pension income
  • Identify and understand how to compile a household balance sheet and to measure the risks associated with it
More about this course
  • This online course will help you manage the household balance sheet, by looking at four key assets and liabilities.You??ll explore debt, and how it affects credit scores and your ability to borrow; investments, including savings accounts, bonds, shares and holdings in funds; property, and the costs and risks of buying and selling it; and pension funds, including how to properly plan and save for your retirement.

Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Different ways of borrowing

The cost of borrowing

The lending institutions

Managing debts

Savings products and their returns

Investment products and their returns

Buying and selling property

Mortgage products

The household balance sheet and how to manage it

Pension planning

Pension products

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