Personal Finance 101: Everything You Need to Know

Everything you need to know about personal finance in the U.S presented through concise, engaging, animated videos.

What you’ll learn

Personal Finance 101: Everything You Need to Know

At the end of this course, students will be able to…
Build excellent credit
Manage debt, including student loans
Invest wisely and effortlessly
File a tax return
Get a great bank account
Understand credit cards
Understand and get six types of insurance
Make a spending plan
Buy a car
Find a great apartment
Buy a house
Get a jump start on retirement
Save for college
Get out of credit card debt
Avoid identity theft and fraud
Understand an estate plan
Navigate dating and finances
Navigate marriage and finances
Navigate children and finances
Navigate divorce and finances

Requirements

No outside materials or software is required to take this course.
No knowledge of mathematics or statistics is required for this course.
No prior personal finance experience is required for this course.
The only thing you need is access to the internet and a willingness to learn!

Description

This course is designed for anyone looking to gain an excellent, practical knowledge of personal finance, covering everything from to taxes to credit cards. Sound intimidating? Don’t worry! This course is designed with complete beginners in mind. No previous personal finance knowledge (or math!) is required, and you will never need outside software or materials.

As for how this course is structured, we designed it to maximize your enjoyment and engagement. That’s why we teach you an entire personal finance curriculum through a series of short (<5 min), engaging, animated videos. Each video teaches you everything you need to know (practically speaking) about a specific topic, like investing, in a way that even a total beginner can understand. And with over 52 videos in total and more than 3 hours of content, you’ll learn everything you need to know about personal finance, from how to pay your taxes to how to buy a car to how to pay off your student loans!

Finally, as for our background, we’re MoneyCoach, a financial education startup that has spent the past year developing this curriculum (with the help of a financial advisor) to fill the void in financial education and to teach people personal finance in the most effective way possible. So what are you waiting for? Get started today!

Who this course is for:

This course is meant for anyone looking to learn (and eventually master!) personal finance. And yes, we do mean anyone! We designed this course to be accessible and useful for everyone, especially complete beginners, whether they’re just heading off to college or just getting ready for retirement.
This course is NOT meant for anyone looking to learn advanced investment techniques or financial modeling.

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Personal Finance 101: Everything You Need to Know