Course overview
This course introduces learners to the holistic examination of the set of financial decisions and constraints that personal financial planning clients face—personal spending, saving, income taxation, insurance cover, credit and debt, and investments—across stages in their (financial) life cycles. By focusing on personal financial planning as an evolving process and providing appropriate financial tools and techniques—time value of money, personal financial statements, comprehensive analysis of interest rates, returns and risk—it aims to improve learners understanding of and ability to explain personal budgeting, tax management, insurance, consumer debt, and investment decision making.
- Personal Financial Planning, Processes, Tools, and Techniques
- Managing Personal Insurance and Debt
- Personal Investment Decisions and Biases
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate expert skills in the application of time value of money concepts and methods to personal financial management decisions.
- Critically evaluate borrowing and personal investment alternatives and their implications for the accumulation of personal wealth.
- Develop and apply personal financial budgets as devices for the planning and control of personal finances.
- Research, apply and explain fundamental concepts related to risk and return and their relevance to personal investment planning, taxation, and financial management decisions.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 56620
Section WS01
Size 23
Available 23
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 56621
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 30
Online
Class number 50021
Section 01OL
Size 41
Available 41
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