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This course includes:

  • 3 hours on-demand video
  • 17 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
Finance & Accounting Finance Personal Finance

Simple Basics of Personal Finance

Learn The Fundamentals Of Your Personal Money and Finances Using Easy-To-Understand Language And Clear Examples
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (17 ratings)
1,029 students
Created by Ron Trucks
Last updated 8/2020
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Understand and feel comfortable with the basics of the money-related elements of everyday life and how to approach every financial aspect responsibly and confidently.

Requirements

  • If you're wanting a better understanding of the basics of how money is used in your daily life, you're ready to go!

Description

In today's world, our personal financial health is vital.  This course explains the basics so you understand what's involved and how everything works.  This also serves as an introduction to help relate personal finances to business finances.

Topics include:

  • What's the difference between banks, credit unions and other financial institutions?

  • Explaining savings, checking, debit cards, credit cards...

  • Other methods to making payments than cash or checks

  • Borrowing money and the basics of loans

  • Auto loans, home loans, paying for college and higher education

  • Payday loans - The good, the bad and the ugly

  • Other "Grown Up" stuff including payroll taxes, insurance, social security, saving for retirement, identity protection...

The course also works great for teens and young adults in helping them start to understand life economics and how all the pieces work together.

Who this course is for:

  • From young to old, beginners to experienced... Anyone wanting to grasp the elements of financial responsibility and control on a personal level will feel much more confident!

Course content

5 sections • 22 lectures • 3h 7m total length

  • Preview03:31
  • Preview03:37

  • Financial Institutions and Banks vs Credit Unions
    Preview09:46
  • Savings
    10:09
  • Checking Accounts and Making Payments
    05:44
  • NSF vs Overdraft - Does It Matter?
    06:43
  • Understanding Credit & Debit Cards
    25:17
  • Other Payment Methods - Mobile Payments, Prepaid Cards and More...
    05:08
  • Banking Quiz
    10 questions

  • Borrowing Fundamentals
    Preview05:44
  • Credit Score
    09:32
  • The Basics of Loans
    07:36
  • The Loan Process
    06:42
  • Auto Loans
    03:51
  • Home Loans - Are You Ready?
    11:34
  • Home Loans - Mortgages
    15:11
  • Higher Education Loans - The Basics
    16:01
  • Higher Education Loans - 529 Plans
    06:30
  • Payday Loans
    03:31
  • Borrowing Money Quiz
    10 questions

  • Preview02:15
  • Payroll and Income Taxes
    10:09
  • Insurance - The Overview
    16:22

  • Preview02:18

Instructor

Ron Trucks
Small Business Coach and College Instructor
Ron Trucks
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 3,316 Reviews
  • 14,776 Students
  • 4 Courses

Over 25 years ago, after building his experience in the hospitality industry and working with many business start-ups, Ron Trucks founded his privately owned firm guiding and coaching small businesses and non-profit organizations in a wide variety of fields and industries both in his home town of St. Louis, MO and across the country.

In addition to his professional work in small-business support, Ron has also been an Business Management adjunct instructor at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, MO for over 15 years.

Over those two-plus decades of both teaching and coaching small businesses and non-profit organizations, Ron has served on various boards and in many volunteer positions including the Board of Directors of a $300 million dollar credit union, developing leadership skills with members of national fraternities and sororities, and working with troubled youth dealing with identity and self-confidence issues.

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