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Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet

Explore household assets (investments, property and pensions) and liabilities (debts).

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Summary

Price
Free
Study method
Online
Duration
4 weeks · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification

Overview

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

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Description

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

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.

What topics will you cover?

  • 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

Academic credit

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.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • 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

Who is this course for?

For further information about registration, the final assessment course, your eligibility and the BA in Business Management, visit the Open University website.

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