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UNISA Short Course in Basic Financial Life Skills

UNISA Short Course in Basic Financial Life Skills

University of South Africa Short Course in Basic Financial Life Skills

Short Course in Basic Financial Life Skills (7182X)

 

Purpose

To educate students, individuals, parents, teachers, skills/HR trainers, brokers to be, employees, entrepreneurs and school leavers in basic personal financial life skills. This knowledge is a prerequisite for life, a career and entrepreneurship.

 

 

Target group

Adults interest in learning about basic financial life skills

 

Admission requirements

No admission requirements. Anybody can register

 

Duration

6 months

 

Language medium

English

 

Registration periods

 

 

Tuition method

Distance education by means of a study guide, tutorial letters and a prescribed book.

 

Kind of assessment

Note:

Formative assessment and examination admission will comply with UNISA’s formative assessment rules and policies

Formative assessment:

Assignments

Summative assessment:

Examination

 

Basic Financial Skills (SBFS016)
Syllabus/Content Topics

The module shows you how to:

●do your own personal financial planning

●draw up your own budget

●identify debt problems and plan your debt situation

●choose the best micro-loan from the best micro-lender

●budget to purchase a car

●evaluate and plan the purchase of a residence

●avoid investment pitfalls and how to choose the right investments

●protect your income and assets

●do timeous retirement planning in order to retire financially independent

●protect your job and how to start or buy a business

●make use of a bank, banking products and services

 

Course leader

Mr N J Swart

Discipline expertise: Personal Financial Management and Real Estate (the only Personal Financial Management lecturer in South Africa for the last 20 years); author of more than 50 books on Personal Financial Planning; the Academic Father of Financial Skills and Literacy Education and Training In South Africa and the World; South Africa’s Mr Personal Financial Management

Centre for Business Management

Office 3-113, A J H van der Walt Building, UNISA

Tel: 012 429 4651

Cell: 082 822 4419

Fax: 086 641 5404

E-mail: swartnj@unisa.ac.za

 

 

Programme administrator(s)

 

Tel: (012) 352 4288 / 4170 / 4317 / 4383

Fax: 012 429 4150

E-mail: cbm@unisa.ac.za

www.unisa.ac.za/cbm

See Also:

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