BUDG032 Financial Education for a Successful Future (598 words)

Hands up if you learned trigonometry in school, but not how to budget? I’m sure we can all agree that we need to do better at setting up our young adults for financial success. In this article, we cover five tools that can help to change this narrative for future generations.

Think back to when you got your first job and that sweet taste of financial independence. Regardless of what age you started working, it's unlikely you knew how to manage that first paycheck.

Let's face it; our world isn't particularly adept at teaching financial literacy to the younger generation.

I don't know about you, but when I was in school, we learned trigonometry (SOH-CAH-TOA is still permanently etched in my brain), which has been helpful for all the times I've needed to solve the missing sides and angles of a right triangle, but not so much for managing my financial affairs as an adult.