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Personal Finance

Personal money management and financial planning are critical skills to achieving financial freedom and independence. We aim to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to help make informed investment decisions, including how stocks, bonds, and other investments fit together as part of a diversified strategy.

Other topics include wealth management, retirement strategies, asset allocation models, estate planning, and risk management. Come build a comprehensive checklist of important financial documents and a list of follow-up action steps so that you’re better prepared for life’s challenges and obstacles.

Courses

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Blueprint for Financial Success

Review the process of financial planning and get the tools to refine and upgrade your existing financial plan. We'll discuss wealth management and investments, retirement strategies, asset allocation models, estate planning, and risk management.

Blueprint Course Details (Blueprint for Financial Success)
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Financial Planning and Control

This introductory-level course is meant to teach finance concepts to non-financial managers and considers tools for decision-making such as cost benefit analysis, break even analysis, and Balanced Scorecard. The course also teaches the basic finance concepts such as return on investment (ROI), fixed and variable costs, and payback period.

Financial Planning Course Details (Financial Planning and Control)
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How to Read a Financial Statement

This course covers financial reports and their meaning. You will learn the fundamentals and importance of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows, and how they can be used to manage a business.

Financial Statement Course Details (How to Read a Financial Statement)
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Introduction To Finance

This introductory-level course starts at the beginning, discussing finance as an organizational setting and legal forms of business. The course continues on to cover the responsibilities of financial managers, roles of finance in a typical business organization, and relevant financial markets of interest to financial managers.

Introduction to Finance Course Details (Introduction To Finance)
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Personal Finance

This course will familiarize you with the basics of budgeting, including creating and managing a budget, as well as setting financial goals, understanding your credit, tips for saving money, and the basics of investing.

Personal Finance Course Details (Personal Finance)
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Starting an Online Store

This course will guide you through the process of generating product ideas, performing market and audience research, organizing a sourcing process, finding the best eCommerce platform, developing a shipping and fulfillment strategy, and marketing your online store to boost traffic and sales.

Online Store Course Details (Starting an Online Store)