Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet

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Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet

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Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet

The course Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet is an online class provided by The Open University through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

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

Course description

Start to manage debt, investments, property and pension funds effectively
4 weeks

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.
The Open University’s Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance created this course, with the generous support of True Potential LLP.

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

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

For further information about registration, the final assessment course, your eligibility and the BA in Business Management, visit the Open University website.
IMPORTANT! If you are aiming to use your study of courses in the Business and Finance Fundamentals program to obtain academic credit, please be aware that the final planned presentation of the Open University Assessment Course BXM191 Business and Finance Fundamentals in Practice starts October 2020. Please ensure that you allow yourself enough time to obtain all eight Certificates of Achievement from courses in the program before registering for the Assessment Course. Details of runs of the relevant FutureLearn courses in 2019 and 2020 are available here.

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Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet

Course Topic

Business & Management, Finance & Accounting

University, College, Institution

The Open University

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / The Open University you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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