Level 3 Personal Financial Management

Personal Financial Management explores the themes of: managing money and income, setting financial goals, and managing financial risk, at Level 8 of the Financial Capabilities Framework. Successful students will be able to: explain different sources of financial advice, make recommendations about credit options, explain options to increase personal income and monitor changing financial circumstances in order to achieve a goal.

This course uses Unit Standards for assessment. Students can gain grades of Achieved, Achieved with Merit and Achieved with Excellence that can contribute to their Level 3 NCEA Certificate endorsement. It is currently not possible to gain a subject endorsement in Personal Financial Management as it is fully internally assessed.

This is not a University approved subject.

The standards offered in this course may be altered at the discretion of the Head of Department.