Open University (OU) is offering free online course on Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting. This facilitated 4-week course is up-to-date and uses an array of audio-visual assets to help you through the subject matter.
With household budgets feeling the pinch this course shows how to bring order to your finances and make good financial decisions. The course will start on June 26, 2017.
Course At Glance
Length: 4 weeks
Effort: 3 hours/week
Subject: Finance Fundamentals
Institution: Open University (OU) and Future learn
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes
Session: Course starts on June 26, 2017
Providers’ Details
The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning.
About This Course
Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting starts by looking at the current economic backcloth and its impact on household finances. We then move on to explore your attitude to financial management and whether you have bad financial habits and how these should be addressed.
We introduce a simple four-stage model for making financial decisions before moving on to examine the two components of household budgeting – income and expenditure. In doing this we learn about the impact of inflation and taxation on incomes and the support to households provided by the state benefit system.
Why Take This Course?
This is a free online course. Applicants can get a verified certificate.
Learning Outcomes
- 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
Requirements
For further information about registration, the final assessment course, your eligibility and the BA in Business Management, visit the Open University website. The Open University does not operate in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. This means that Learners based in those countries will not be able to convert their participation in this Program to Open University course credits.
Instructors
Martin Upton
He is Director of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) at the OU Business School. Previously I was Treasurer of Nationwide Building Society.
How To Join This Course
- Go to the course website link
- Sign Up At FutureLearn
- Select a course and Join
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- After the start date, students will be able to access the course by following the Go To Course link on My Courses page.
- Applicants can buy, to show that they have completed a FutureLearn course.
- On some FutureLearn courses, learners will be able to pay to take an exam to qualify for a Statement of Attainment. (These are university-branded, printed certificates that provide proof of learning on the course topic(s)).