What You'll Learn
Graduates will have the ability to help their clients by doing a formal financial assessment at least annually. Families will better understand the effect of debt on their cash flow and ultimately their ability to accumulate wealth for the future by understanding their debt.
You'll be able to help clients determine what is affordable, how much is affordable and what to do when it’s unaffordable: define an order of debt reduction. As well, the debt to asset ratio, debt to disposable income ratio and debt to equity ratio will be demonstrated and you'll learn what good debt and bad debt are and how to consolidate debt effectively.
Using online demonstrations linked to the topics in each chapter, you'll learn how to use various powerful, professional calculators to establish a savings strategy, as well as a debt management strategy. Most importantly, you'll learn how to pay down debt and in what order, what types of debt are necessary to accelerate the building of wealth, and how to manage cash flow for upcoming life events.