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The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Do you want to improve your financial nutrition? This podcast series will inspire you to think more purposefully about your personal finance and money habits.
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Managing my money for young adults
This free course, Managing my money for young adults, will help you start to think about managing your finances. You will learn how to budget effectively, and will be encouraged to start thinking about your financial future.
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Retirement planning made easy
This free course on money and retirement planning has been produced by The Open University in collaboration with Legal & General.
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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Introducing your Midlife MOT. Your midlife years – that is, when you’re between about 40 and 60 – will probably be a very hectic time indeed. You might have ended up in a challenging job, or you might be working hard to get one. You could be looking after the kids, your parents or maybe both. Maybe you’re putting time and energy into a whole new...
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Academi Arian MSE
Mae'r Brifysgol Agored wedi ymuno â MoneySavingExpert (MSE) i gynhyrchu'r cwrs rhad ac am ddim newydd hwn i roi'r sgiliau a'r wybodaeth i chi feistroli eich arian. Ysgrifennwyd y cwrs gan y Brifysgol Agored, gyda chyngor ac arweiniad MSE.
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MSE’s Academy of Money
The Open University has joined forces with MoneySavingExpert (MSE) to produce this new free course to give you the skills and knowledge to master your finances. Packed with videos, audios, quizzes and activities the course covers all the key aspects of personal finance in six sessions of study that each take around two hours to complete.
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Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Inflation is trending above 5% in 2022, driven by rises in fuel, food and transport costs, while taxes go up to cover the costs of the pandemic. The government promises matching increases in basic pay. But real income growth, already stalled since 2008, could now be knocked into reverse by the rising cost-of-living.
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Society, Politics & Law
My career goal: Legal, finance and accounting
If you want to utilise your ability to handle complex situations with moving parts - whether that's balancing the books or assessing the letter of the law - you can hear from professionals in the field and determine your next steps on this page.
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Nature & Environment
Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Divestment from fossil fuels has increased over the last decade as a moral and financial response to the climate crisis, but is it an effective approach to tackle the severity of challenges we now face and how can it support the goals of COP26?
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Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate
You might now understand what COP stands for, but have you heard of the TCFD requirements?
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Business support for small and medium-sized enterprises
Many Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) faced challenges due to Covid-19, and continue to do so even several years on from its outbreak. With lives and livelihoods affected, many organisations were forced to reimagine the future. Studying our free business courses and interactives will help improve your skills and knowledge in business ...
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Companies and financial accounting
This free course, Companies and financial accounting, introduces you to the legal characteristics of limited companies and how limited companies raise finance through ordinary shares and loan capital. It also introduces the interests of company stakeholders, and looks at three different perspectives on companies and their role in society. ...