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Week 3: Expenditure and budgeting

Introduction

The previous week was about incomes; now you turn to household expenditure. Bringing the two together enables you to build a budget. Look at more budgetary challenges and at how spending links to lifetime goals.

Martin introduces the week, which examines household expenditure and shows you how, by combining expenditure and income, you can compile a budget.

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Once again you use the MAS budget planner to assist you in filling in the relevant parts of your fact find. 

This course is presented with the kind support of True Potential LLP.

The True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (True Potential PUFin) is a pioneering Centre of Excellence for research in the development of personal financial capabilities. The establishment and activities of True Potential PUFin have been made possible thanks to the generous support of True Potential LLP, which has committed to a five-year programme of financial support for the Centre totalling £1.4 million.