Key Areas of Financial Literacy Everyone Should Know. Budgeting and Saving. Budgeting is the cornerstone of financial health. Knowing how to track income and expenditures enables individuals to ...

The first step to improving financial literacy is understanding your business's financial statements.These statements include the balance sheet, which lists your business's assets and liabilities ...

Millions of Americans started 2025 with rising credit card debt, living paycheck-to-paycheck and falling further behind their financial goals. Charlotte, N.C., financial advisor Marcus Sturdivant ...

Robust financial guidance can help prepare students to make smart decisions about which college would be a good financial fit, create budgets, manage scholarships and plan for loan repayments. To ...

Financial literacy programs have been called useless in the past. But a new study suggests that's due to the way the subject is taught, rather than the subject itself.

India’s flagship financial inclusion programme, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), has been able make universal access to a bank account a near reality, but the level of usage of accounts ...

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As part of the National Financial Literacy Month observance, Crary hosted an online Lunch and Learn session via Zoom April 7. He and other counselors have three more online sessions coming up, 11: ...

If you don’t feel confident in your financial decision making, you’re obviously not alone. And you can do something about it. "Thinking about finances can be stressful, but starting simple – like ...

2. Budgeting. There’s no point in making money if you don’t understand how to manage it. Setting goals. As any parent knows, delayed gratification is not a strong suit for young children.