This program is registered with Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. CFP Board is a certifying organization whose mission is to benefit the public by fostering professional standards in personal financial planning.

By studying this Certificate of Higher Education in Economics and Personal Finance, you'll appreciate how economic theory helps understand real-world important issues in areas such as government policy, international trade, business decisions, work and innovation. You’ll discover how economics and the economies have evolved.

The capital market is the most useful mechanism for financing companies and, in turn, for safeguarding the savings of the different economic actors in a country.

The purpose of this course is for you to obtain both a broad overview of the role of finance in society and your role in it, and a degree of greater comfort that you know how to approach the major financial decisions you will confront. The course will emphasize both sound decisions and financial mistakes that are all too common and can have major damaging results.

The qualification aims to develop learner understanding and skills in the inter-related mathematical process skills of representing, analyzing, interpreting, using numbers, geometry, and statistics within functional contexts.