FREE courses for Financial Eduction - at home, on puter.....

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These are some great starter courses to help peeps get their head around the courts system, the way the financial services industry operates, causes and remedies of debt and a bit about CCA's.

Have a look, have a read. If you follow a course and do activities let us know how you get along.


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Personal finance: Debt and borrowing in its wider context

• knowledge and understanding of the relationship between variables relevant to financial capability, for example income and expenditure, and time;
• knowledge and understanding of how financial decisions are part of a broader dynamic process of social and economic change;
• knowledge and understanding of the debates and negotiations around finance which take place within households;
• knowledge and understanding of the significance of trade-offs/opportunity cost in decision-making, with particular reference to financial decisions;
• the ability to describe and compare the impact of social and economic factors on financial decisions;
• the ability to interpret and use key financial and economic terms and concepts;
• the ability to develop an understanding of the financial planning process;
• the ability to interpret and use simple graphs, tables and charts;
• the ability to make connections between course material and relevant parts of the financial press;
• the ability to understand relevant financial products;
• the ability to recognise diversity in relation to personal finance.