Personal Finance notes

Personal Finance is an option module for students studying Accounting and Finance. This document contains notes taken from coursework guidance sessions on the report assessment for the Personal Finance module at LSBU. It covers tips on how to go about completing the coursework to get a good mark, step-by-step guide on what you need to do, examples of financial innovations you can cover in the coursework, what the report layout should look like and what it must contain, things you need to avoid. ...

Personal Finance is an option module for students studying Accounting and Finance. This document covers: savings, why it is important to have savings, risks associated with saving, reasons for saving, household savings ratio, who is better at saving, capital risk, tax risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk, compound interest, annual equivalent rate, tax implicaton, types of saving accounts, systematic approach to saving, other options for saving, deciding factors when looking for a savings acc...

Personal Finance is an option module for students studying Accounting and Finance. This document contains notes taken from coursework guidance sessions on the presentation assessment for the Personal Finance module at LSBU. It covers tips on how to go about completing the coursework to get a good mark, step-by-step guide on what you need to do, a breakdown of the marking scheme, important points you need to cover in your presentation. For this piece of coursework, students are buying shares of a...

Personal Finance is an option module for students studying Accounting and Finance. This document covers: applying for a mortgage to purchase a property, costs of buying a property, types of mortgages, which mortgage to choose, sale timeline/stages, property investments, buy-to-let investing, benefits of buy-to-let investing, disadvantages of buy-t0-let investing, taxation issues, other property opportunities, how to prepare yourself for a mortgage application.