Time to be smart with your money. Learn how, from home.
Published on 6th May 2020
Have you long been meaning to try to get on top of your personal finances? Didn’t quite know where to start and were too time-poor to dip your toe? Now is your golden opportunity to capitalise on the current hiatus, skill up and take control with our fantastic range of FREE online personal finance management courses. Brought to you by the experts, our courses cover the many facets of personal financial planning and wealth generation - including budgeting, debt reduction, funding your retirement, investing and even couponing! There is something here for everybody who wants to optimise their financial health, whatever their life stage or circumstances. Start your journey to financial wellbeing today! All FREE and all available with your Dublin City Libraries card.
Universal Class provides access to over 500+ online courses including the wide range of courses on personal financial management below:
To access online, register with your library card number and email address.
Personal Finance: How to manage your money
This course will provide you with everything you need to understand your spending habits, chart your progress, grow your current savings and achieve your dreams.
Debt Reduction
This course teaches the concept of debt reduction and shows students how to wisely manage credit and personal debt.
Understanding and managing your personal credit
This course will explain how to repair credit using the tips that have helped millions of other people raise their credit score hundreds of points through know-how and determination.
Retirement Planning
There are many questions about retirement, mainly because retirement is now considered a phase of our lives rather than a couple years spent marking time after we stop working. We need to develop a financial plan. This online class will address a number of these issues and give you a place to start. See also related courses on Retirement Tips and Estate Planning
Habits of millionaires
Today more than ever before, people from all walks of life are becoming millionaires. There are several explanations for this including the worth of the dollar, the internet, and the study of those who have become millionaires. Learning how a millionaire not only achieved that status but how it was maintained and managed for continual growth is your first step.
Couponing
In our difficult economy, it has become more important than ever to save money wherever possible. Couponing simply means using available coupons offered in newspapers, magazines, and online which advertise discounts on commonly used items such as things one finds in the grocery store.
Investing: Stocks, bonds and mutual funds
This course will help you demystify the stock market and start making money! Everyone yes, everyone is sure to find something suitable in the stock market to invest in. It doesn't matter if you are looking for a very safe investment to protect your nest egg or a risky investment with a huge potential to make a killing!
See also related course - Investing: Intro to Commodity, Options, and Futures Markets. Learn also about a special software package below to help in your overall money management:
Introduction to Quicken 2010 - Quicken Deluxe is a personal finance management tool that provides features that we all need to keep track of where our money is going. However, this software gives you more than just the power to log your finances and manage your bills. It can also be used to plan for retirement and increase the amount of money you put into savings.
See also the related course: Quicken tutorial, an introduction.
Or would you prefer not to have to do ‘homework’? Then The Great Courses Library Collection may be more to your liking. The Great Courses Library Collection Is a series of thought-provoking half-hour video lectures. You can play, pause, and review information as often as you like. Each course is taught by experts in their field, and includes a supplementary guide book. You can access as many courses as you want to for 7 days. After 7 days, simply log in again and get another 7 day’s access. On your first visit, create a new account (inputting your Dublin City library membership card number) and complete registration. Email address required.
Money Management Skills
Learn the basic principles of money management with this course that teaches you how to build a financial plan to achieve your goals.
Fundamentals of sustainable living
Learn practical strategies for sustainable living that can help you cut costs, live healthier, and promote a more regenerative world.
Understanding Investments
Take control of your financial destiny with this comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to the basics of investing taught by a professor of Economics.
The Art of Investing: Lessons from story's Greatest Traders
An award-winning professor reveals the secrets of the most successful financial investors in history. See also a related course The Economics of Uncertainty which may be of interest. Learn how to cope with economic uncertainty and risk in these 24 advice-filled lectures from a master economist.
I hope that you have found plenty of relevant and useful content here to help you along on your financial wellness journey. Enjoy empowering yourself with this knowledge