Finance Fundamentals: Financial Planning and Budgeting

With household budgets feeling the pinch this course shows how to bring order to your finances and make good financial decisions Find out how to manage your income and expenditure more effectively 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 The Open Universitys Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance created this course with the generous support of True Potential LLP 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