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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Finance Fundamentals: Managing the Household Balance Sheet
This course explored the constituents of the household balance sheet including debts, savings, investments, property and pension funds.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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
Syllabus
- 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
Issued on 13th March 2017
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