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Champion Empowerment Institute

Financial Literacy Basics

Individual Course $77.77 · Member Price: $0.00

Prerequisite

You must complete the course titled Why is FINANCIAL LITERACY Important? to receive your Certificate of Completion for the Financial Literacy Basics course. Champion also recommends our basic math course, Subtracting Adds to Your Life, if you are a little rusty on adding and subtracting. It will support your learning for creating and maintaining a realistic budget. This is an optional course, so it is not a prerequisite. Champion’s Financial Literacy Basics course has been created to help you understand the basics of financial literacy and to help you develop or sharpen your budgeting and monetary management skills. Life is less stressful and less expensive when you manage your money well.

This course will help you:

  • Make a realistic budget
  • Prioritize expenses and spending
  • Create a plan for saving for emergencies and your future
  • Help you understand interest and how to save money in interest
  • Make good decisions about taking out credit
  • Recognize the differences between good and bad credit
  • Find the best banking options
  • Understand and improve your credit score
This course is best experienced by reading it in the order presented below. Please click on the first lesson below to get started.
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Lessons

  1. LESSON 1: Financial Literacy Basics
  2. LESSON 2: Getting Real About Money
  3. LESSON 1: Make a Realistic Budget
  4. LESSON 2: Budgeting Components
  5. LESSON 3: Prioritize Your Budget Components
  6. LESSON 5: Budgets Need to be Flexible
  7. LESSON 6: Key Thoughts on Successful Budgeting
  8. LESSON 2: Identify Your Savings Goals
  9. LESSON 3: Create A Budget
  10. LESSON 4: Start Saving Money
  11. LESSON 5: More Sophisticated Savings Plans
  12. LESSON 6: Simple Formula to Double Your Money
  13. LESSON 1: What Affects Interest Rates?
  14. LESSON 2: Fixed vs Variable Rate Interest
  15. LESSON 3: The Interest Factor
  16. LESSON 4: Key Thoughts on Interest
  17. LESSON 1: A Brief History of 20th-Century Loans
  18. LESSON 2: Why Do Loan Companies and Organizations Loan Money?
  19. LESSON 3: Necessary Loans
  20. LESSON 4: There Are Good Loans and Bad Loans
  21. LESSON 5: Practice Credit Choices
  22. LESSON 6: Credit Scores Can Determine Your Interest Rates
  23. LESSON 7: Key Thoughts on Credit Karma
  24. LESSON 1: Pay with Cash or Money Orders
  25. LESSON 2: Checking and Savings Accounts
  26. LESSON 1: About Credit Scores
  27. LESSON 2: Credit Score Determining Factors
  28. LESSON 3: Ensuring the Accuracy of Your Report
  29. LESSON 4: How Credit Scores Affect Your Life
  30. LESSON 5: Achieving Your Credit Score Goal
  31. LESSON 3: Mobile Banking

Quizzes

Pass quizzes to earn certificates where configured.

  • QUIZ: Financial Literacy Basics Completion