Introduction to Personal Finance - PERSONAL FINANCE - Lecture 1 notes

Module: Personal Finance


Lecture 1 – Introduction to Personal Finance


This module overlaps with other modules:
 Personal Taxation
 Management Accounting
 Fundamentals of Finance
 Managerial Finance

Employment opportunities in this area:
 Independent financial advisors – can advise on helping people get out of debt
 Mortgage brokers
 Personal finance society


Core Reading
 Jane King & Mary Carey ‘Personal Finance’ 2 nd Edition, 2017 (Oxford
University Press) – this is the main one that we would be using for the module
 George Callaghan, Ian Fribbance & Martin Higginson ‘Personal Finance’ (2 nd
Edition, 2012, Palgrave)
 A core text book relating to Corporate Finance from either ‘Fundamentals of
Finance’ or ‘Managerial Finance’
 A quality weekend newspaper such as Financial Times and/or a personal
finance website.


Free access to Financial Times
If you haven’t already done so, you should take advantage of the free Financial
Times app on your phone where you are given free access to it as a student of
LSBU. You will need to use you LSBU email address to register.

At the weekend, it publishes a personal finance column.


Financial Planning Resources
Media:
 Books, magazines
 Social media (YouTube, Instagram) TV (Martin Lewis MoneySavingExpert
show), radio (experts that come and speak and answer financial questions)
 Apps, websites, blogs, podcasts
 Online videos, webinars