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Personal & Family Financial Planning
Beginner English Professional CertificateFREE
What you'll learn
Build a personal budget and track cash flow
Manage credit, debt, and your credit score
Understand insurance and how to choose coverage
Grasp the basics of taxes and how they affect you
Get started with investing and risk
Plan toward retirement and long-term goals
This course includes
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Certificate
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English
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University of Florida
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Offered by the University of Florida, whose family and consumer-economics faculty designed it as practical personal-finance education for a general audience — everyday decisions, not Wall Street.
Requirements
- No background required
Who this course is for
- Anyone wanting to manage their own money better
- Young adults and new earners
- Families planning for the future
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Frequently asked questions
Personal money. It's a life-skills course on managing your own finances — budgeting, credit, insurance, investing, retirement — not career finance training.
You can audit the full course free on Coursera. A certificate is available with a subscription.
None. It's built for complete beginners and explains each topic from the ground up.
Some details (like taxes and retirement accounts) reflect the US context, but the core principles — budgeting, debt, insurance, investing — apply broadly.
No — it teaches principles and frameworks for decisions, not specific investment recommendations, which is the responsible way to approach personal finance.