Personal Finance 101 – Personal Finance for Regular People

This course is intended for anyone who is interested in learning and managing personal finances differently.

Created by: Erich Heneke
I work at Mayo, for ISCEA and Heneke Business Consulting

What Will I Learn?

• The course is designed to teach students about a myriad of personal finance topics, starting with the most basic tenants of personal finance.
• Within the course, students learn about their current spending, how to budget and tips/tricks to save money while still living.
• Students will learn about debt reduction strategies and ways in which they can lessen the burden of debt and lack of emergency savings.
• Students will learn about the importance of personal financial goal setting, how to create actionable goals and how to align future goals to current situations.

Requirements

• This course is designed with no requirements or prerequisites, other than a strong desire to learn about yourself and new personal finance principles.
• Students should be ready to challenge their norms, consider opportunity costs and trade-offs and prepare to move the needle on their personal finance journey.

Target audience

• This course is designed for anyone, of any age, who wants to strengthen their personal financial situation. It is designed to think both short and long-term, therefore, age and maturity of personal finance is not of concern.
• Those less knowledgeable to personal finance will take away a GREAT deal from this course.