The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has acknowledged that its program for raising the financial literacy of Australian students, DollarSmart, needs more industry support. [...] Rebecca Murray, FPA general manager of marketing and membership [...] acknowledged that not all schools have taken up the FPA’s offer for planners to teach financial literacy in the classrooms, despite it running since 2003.
- Dollarsmart Needs More Support, via http://www.moneymanagement.com.au/
What is Dollarsmart you ask? The FPA say ‘Dollarsmart is A financial toolkit for young Australians’ that examines six key aspects of financial literacy : planning, budgeting, saving & investing, credit & debt, insurance and finally study & work. This is an amazing free resource aimed at Australians available as a series of PDFs, a complete workbook in PDF or you can even order it on a CD.
