Course Overview

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Overview

This course presents basic principles for achieving financial freedom. Emphases include confident expectancy, setting goals, preparing personal financial spreadsheets, escaping debt, managing cash flow, investing, and generous giving.

The vision is to create an army of people who are debt free, prosperous and successful who will be willing to serve others with no limits or boundaries.  We believe a free and prosperous society can be generous and can achieve many more things than a society that is in bondage by debt, poverty, consumption, and selfish desires.

The purpose is to transform the mindset of society so that each individual recognizes the great wealth that God endowed each of us with at birth.  We are all equal before God. We were all given the same gifts – a mind, a will, a heart, a conscience, and a body and 24 hours every day - and thus each of us has the same opportunity to generate wealth during our lifetimes and live the life of our dreams. What we choose to do with each of these gifts is up to us.

Outcomes:

1.      Understand basic principles to help achieve financial freedom.

2.      Understand the importance of dreaming in regard to financial goals

3.      Learn how to prepare personal financial spreadsheets

4.      Learn principles for getting out of debt.

5.      Understand concepts of managing cash flow and investments

6.      Discover why giving is an important part of financial freedom.

Assignments
1. Read the online articles for each unit. You may also save these articles to your own computer for further study. 
2. Listen to online video lectures. For some videos, there is also a corresponding article. Slides for each video are posted as a PDF file. If you wish, you may save each file on your computer and adapt the the slides to use when you teach others.
3. Use the discussion forum to ask questions and exchange ideas with others. 
4. Take the online quiz for each unit. You will have 75 minutes to answer 20 multiple-choice questions for each quiz. Once a quiz has started, you must finish it, and you can't retake it. So be ready ahead of time. Each quiz covers readings and video lectures for that unit. While taking the quiz, you may use your notes and refer to articles and other materials. Tip: First answer all the questions you know. Then try to look up answers to questions you don't know. When you have entered an answer for every question, submit the quiz for grading before the 75-minute limit. 
*The course has a total of 240 points: 20 points for each of the twelve quizzes.

Grading Scale
A 95-100%   A- 90-94%   B+ 87-89%   B 83-86%   B- 80-82%
C+ 77-79%   C 73-76%   C- 70-72%    D+ 67-69%   D 63-66%   D- 60-62%   F 0-59%
Your average for the course must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no credit.

Deadline
You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically unenrolled, and all course work will be removed. You will have to start over and take the class again to receive credit.

Accessibility

All videos have slides available with them.