Free Online course
Managing the Household Balance Sheet
17 Feb, 11 May 2020
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.
What topics will you cover?
What will you achieve?
Who is the course for?
For further information about registration, the final assessment course, your eligibility and the BA in Business Management
Who will you learn with?
Martin Upton, I am Director of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) at the OU Business School. Previously I was Treasurer of Nationwide Building Society.
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.
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
What will you achieve?
- 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 the course for?
For further information about registration, the final assessment course, your eligibility and the BA in Business Management
Who will you learn with?
Martin Upton, I am Director of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) at the OU Business School. Previously I was Treasurer of Nationwide Building Society.
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