Hub 05 · Finance
Finance: Understand and organize your money.
As more of your money moves online, get the basics and the admin clear in plain English, with general information from official sources and never product advice. Plain-English money courses with AU, UK and US rules, official sources and official help lines. Open now: Understanding financial basics (inflation, tax returns, retirement savings, investing, insurance and financial statements) and Money admin (credit scores, saving, budgeting, a first home, a first job, paying off debt, loans and negotiating salary). General information only, not financial advice. More topics open one at a time.
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Topics
Topics in Finance.
Open topics have courses you can start now. Planned topics open one at a time.
- 05.01Live
Money admin
Adults organizing credit, bills, saving and everyday money paperwork.
8 courses
- 05.02Live
Understanding financial basics
Adults who want clear facts about money basics.
7 courses
Courses
Finance courses you can start now.
- Adulting 101: Life Skills for Late Teens Moving Into Adult LifePremium courseCourse in Money admin
- The Money Year: Build and Run Your 12-Month Money PlanPremium courseCourse in Money admin
- Budgeting for beginners: the 50/30/20 ruleCourse in Money admin
- Credit scores: how they work and how to improve yoursCourse in Money admin
- Financial literacy course: personal finance for beginnersCourse in Understanding financial basics
- Buying your first home: how mortgages work for a first home buyerCourse in Money admin
- How insurance works: home, car, life and income coverCourse in Understanding financial basics
- How loans work: credit cards and buy now, pay laterCourse in Money admin
- How to negotiate your salary: a step-by-step guideCourse in Money admin
- How to save money: cut bills and build an emergency fundCourse in Money admin
- Inflation explained: everyday economics for your moneyCourse in Understanding financial basics
- Investing course for beginners: index funds and compound interestCourse in Understanding financial basics
- Money management basics for your first job: payslips, tax and your first budgetCourse in Money admin
- How to pay off debt: snowball vs avalancheCourse in Money admin
- How to read financial statements: the basicsCourse in Understanding financial basics
- Retirement savings basics: 401(k), pensions and superCourse in Understanding financial basics
- Tax return basics: how to do your taxesCourse in Understanding financial basics
Premium courses
Premium Finance courses.
Full programs with templates and a capstone project, guided by Elly. Each is bought on its own, with 12 months of access.
Adulting 101: Life Skills for Late Teens Moving Into Adult Life
A life skills course for late teens: ID and documents, banking and budgets, credit, first jobs, insurance, cars, renting, bills, doctors and emergencies.
The Money Year: Build and Run Your 12-Month Money Plan
Build a written 12-month money plan with costed goals, a money calendar for Australia, the UK or the US, and four quarterly reviews. General education only.
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Elly
The plain-English money explainer
Never recommends financial products.
Please note
Please note
General information only, not financial advice. We don't recommend financial products.
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