BrighterMonday Uganda Financial Literacy Course

Welcome to our exciting Financial Literacy Course!

This course is designed to equip you with the necessary skills and knowledge to take control of your personal finances and achieve your financial goals.

In this course, we will explore the fundamentals of personal finance, including understanding how money flows, managing assets and debts, and using the liquid net worth equation. You'll also learn how to create and stick to a budget, track and manage your expenses, and conduct a monthly financial review.

We understand that financial management can seem daunting, but our expert instructors will guide you through each module in a clear and easy-to-understand manner. Our course is designed to be engaging, interactive, and practical, so you can apply what you learn to your real-life financial situation.

Are you ready to take the first step toward financial freedom? let's get started!

Welcome to BrighterMonday Uganda's Financial Literacy course.

In this module, We will equip you with the tools that you need to understand money management. This understanding will enable you to make financial decisions that will make you feel proud and financially fulfilled.

Over the course of six lectures, we're going to take you on a journey where we hope to equip you with the tools that you need to understand money management.

Learning Objectives:

1.1 Take a personal finance health assessment

1.2 Learn how to track and manage your expenses

1.3 Learn how to budget

1.4 Learn about assets & inflows; debts & outflows

1.5 Understand and use the net worth equation

1.6 Learn how to calculate your current money status

In the last module, we completed a personal finance health assessment. In this module, we are going to dive a little deeper into our personal finances with a focus specifically on cash or money, that is, understanding how your money flows.


Objectives:

2.1 Define the three major flows or movement of money in our lives: money base, money in and money out
2.2 Understand money and its movement.
2.3 Learn how to assess each of these flows in your life.

In this module, we are going to dive a little bit deeper once again into our personal finances and learn about 4 important categories in the areas of finance- assets, inflows, debts, and outflows


Objectives:

3.1 Define debts and outflows.
3.2 Learn about assets and inflows

In this module, you will not only learn how to calculate your own liquid net worth but also develop an understanding of the steps you can take to make it grow.

Learning objectives;

4.1 Define liquid net worth, understand its use and its purpose
4.2 Learn how to calculate your own liquid net worth
4.3 Understand the steps you can take to make your liquid net worth grow

Having a budget helps you see where your money is going. in this module, you will learn all about budgets and also learn how to budget.

Learning objectives

5.1 Define budgets and view a sample budget.
5.2 Understand how to make your own budget.
5.3 Learn what a budget is and what its key components

It is important to monitor how we spend because if you don’t, you will realize that you won’t be able to save up enough money. In this module, we are going to talk about how you set your money rule book and how you stick to it.

Learning objectives

6.1 Learn how to record, analyze and manage your expenses
6.2 Learn how to make use of your budget
6.3 Learn how to track expenses

In this module, you will learn what monthly personal finance review is, how to review how much money you have spent and why you need to review your finances. A monthly personal finance review will help you realize if you have made progress with your financial goals.

Learning objectives

7.1 Understand what monthly personal finance review is.
7.2 Understand why you need to review your finances.
7.3 Learn how to review how much money you have spent