The Pathfinder’s Financial Planning!

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About Course

Welcome to the Financial Planning for YOU course by FFA!

You’re joining scores of learners currently enrolled in the course.

We are excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the learning community.

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Learning Outcomes:

The desired learning outcomes of these course content is highlighted below. At the end of the course, you should be able to

  • Determine and set personal financial goals.
  • Understand the importance and implement the process of personal budgeting.
  • Understand why and how to deal with obstacles to successful savings strategies.
  • Have a firm grasp of the fundamentals of the time value of money.
  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of borrowing and the use of loans.
  • Learn how to evaluate the impact of religious, economic, regulatory, and political issues with respect to your finances
  • Plan ahead to make your goals financially achievable

 

Learning Indicators

By these we will know if the learner has been able to achieve the learning outcomes above:

  • Completion of course content.
  • Assessment of knowledge.
  • Completion of tailored surveys.
  • Video Interactive sessions with FFA through:
    • Group Video discussions.

 

Course Design

The design of the content of the course will follow the highlighted approaches;

  • Story-based
  • Problem-based
  • Learning centred, and;
  • Video-based approach.

 

Conclusion

After the completion of the course, it is expected that the learners: Become exposed to practical and experiential financial knowledge that work, can define his/her financial plan, understand various laws of managing money, can align their finances with personal life target so you honour God and bless humanity.

 

We are delighted to have you! Throughout this course, we hope to hear from you. Good luck and enjoy the course!

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What Will You Learn?

  • The following learning goals should be achieved at the conclusion of the course:...
  • ● Determine and set personal financial goals.
  • ● Understand the importance and implement the process of personal budgeting.
  • ● Understand the importance of overcoming barriers to successful savings strategies.
  • ● Understand the basic concept of the time value of money.
  • ● Identify the advantages and disadvantages of borrowing and the use of loans.
  • ● Learn how to evaluate the impact of religious, economic, regulatory, and political issues with respect to your finances
  • ● Plan ahead to make your goals financially achievable

Course Content

Week 1: Part 1 – Introduction to Financial planning and the course of life
Funke Felix-Adejumo is your educator and guide through this course. She is the founder and Chief Director of FFA Matrix Institute. In the Course Intro Video, FFA will tip you off about highlights and challenges, to encourage you on learning journey and to help you make the most of the Financial Planning for You Course. Note that each of the four weeks of the course is designed to be studied over a period of three hours, ideally with one week being studied per module.

  • Introduction and Course Overview
  • Building a Financial Life Plan: Understanding Your Economic Background and Priorities
  • How Your Personality Might Impact Your Finances.
  • Planning your financial future with a financial planning cycle

Week 1: Part 2 – Income, taxation and benefits
This is where you start to build your budget, filling in all your sources of income using a budget planner. Make sure you keep a copy of your workings so that you can refer to them again when you complete your budget by adding your expenditure. You can record these details in your fact find.

Week 2: Part 1 – Expenditure and budgeting
The previous week focused on income; this week, we will look at household spending. Bringing the two together allows you to create a budget, e Look at more budgetary issues and how spending can help you achieve your long-term goals. This part looks at household expenses and demonstrates how to create a budget by combining expenditure and income.

Week 2: Part 2 – Debt and borrowing
Welcome back, as we go on the journey to tackle debt, interest and inflation.

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