Financial Literacy is the ability to read numbers and interpret them for profitable use. Organizations show their financial positions, financial performance and cash generation in the form of financial statements.
Financial literacy affords the opportunity to learn to understand these financial statements even when one is not finance professional.
Financial Literacy accords us the opportunity to know all the rules about money, how to make money, how to keep money, how to spend money, what to spend money on, how to make money work for you and many more. Everybody, on this earth uses money, but we are not taught any good deal about money at all at even at the tertiary and professional institutions. We are not being taught Financial Literacy at schools. We are taught literacy but not financial literacy. It is then left with us to take action now to acquaint ourselves with good knowledge of financial literacy. Since every day, we spend money, we make some money and we lose some money sometimes, we need to have very good education on money, that is how to generate money, what to spend the money on, how to sustain it and how to increase it or its worth.
Whoever says, he or she does like money is not only telling a palpable lie but is exhibiting a total denial
No human being in this present world can live without money. We therefore need better education on money whether we are finance professionals or any other person. Remember, everybody needs money to survive this life.
Financial literacy teaches about the types of expenses, types of income, types of loans, types of funding or sources of finance, types of investments, types of financial intermediaries, and many more.
Financial literacy teaches that there different types of income such earned income, if one is an employee , portfolio income from commercial papers such as shares, mutual funds, unit trusts, bonds, options and so on. There is passive income from real estate. What is the source of your income?
Why don’t you consider other genuine means of getting other incomes? Financial literacy would teach you all these and what to do. What is the source of your income and what do spend your income on?
Financial literacy teaches on risks taking and how to manage the risks taken. You should learn to take risks but manage them. Life is full of risks but they should be managed.
In financial literacy, you learn that the rich use what they call the OPT (Other people’s time) and OPM (Other’s people money). In the end they, the rich people have the time to attend to their family and personal problems and they also have the money. They are just smarter to get everything.
In financial literacy, you learn that you need other professionals such as accountants, bankers, brokers, lawyers, estate agents, surveyors, etc to succeed in your quest to achieving your goals and dreams.
Financial literacy is not meant for only highly educated people in society but for everybody, because everybody uses money.
In financial literacy, you learn that there are many ways to retire, such as retire secured, comfortable or free. Which of these do you wish for and what are you doing to get the one you choose?
Financial literacy is not meant for only finance professionals and but for all human
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