I am taking this course with the aim of going on to complete the Facilitating Personal Financial Management course. As such I hope to not only broaden my own understanding of the financial world but also of building towards being able to share that understanding with others.
While I am already knowledgeable about some of the more sociological aspects of finance and its effects on our daily lives, I expect that this course will give me a better understanding of the formal mechanisms of the financial system and technical terms/language.
I hope that what I learn here will contribute to my main area of study but will also be useful in my personal life. As a student who is also a new mother, being savvy about the financial world has become a more pressing concern for me than previously.