Year 10 Money Management

Course Aims:

This course will enable students to gain knowledge and understanding to become financially capable.  The course teachers skills, knowledge and dispositions that enable a person to make "well informed financial decisions through their lives" (Ministry of Education, 2007).

Course Outline:

• Topics include: Economics, income and taxation, spending and wise buying, saving, budgeting, use of credit, student loans, KiwiSaver, investment and enterprise.
• Focus on how to use money most effectively.
• An enterprise unit where students will learn about business planning, product development, marketing and financial management through selling a product or service at a school market day.

This course provides an introduction and background for Level 1 Economics and Business Courses later on.