PF - Personal Finance
PF-01 - Money Explained
How Money Works and Shapes Personal Financial Decisions
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About this course
This course explains why money exists, how its forms have evolved and how people use it to exchange, measure and store value. It distinguishes money from currency, income and wealth; shows how inflation affects purchasing power; and explains the different jobs performed by saving, investing and an emergency reserve. It also introduces digital payments, fraud safeguards and a practical framework for everyday money decisions in Pakistan.
What you'll learn
- Explain money as a widely accepted system for exchanging and measuring value.
- Describe how money developed from barter and commodity money to cash, bank balances and digital payments.
- Apply the three functions of money: medium of exchange, unit of account and store of value.
- Distinguish money, currency, income, assets and net wealth.
- Explain inflation, purchasing power, nominal return and approximate real return.
- Distinguish saving, investing and emergency reserves by purpose, time horizon, liquidity and risk.
- Use digital money safely and apply a simple decision framework before spending, saving or investing.
Requirements
- No prior financial knowledge is required
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