The month’s money runs out by the 15th and instant noodles carry you the rest of the way.
Literacy · Money Smarts
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財務策略學院
How do you plan a monthly budget, build credit, and avoid subscription and debt traps?
Why this matters
The most expensive lessons in managing your own money for the first time are usually an overdrawn month, revolving interest, and a subscription you forgot to cancel. The earlier you build the habits around budgeting, credit and debt, the less they cost you.
Situations you will actually meet
You pay only the credit-card minimum and watch the balance quietly grow.
A free trial you forgot to cancel charges you for a full year the next month.
Core course areas
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- Study-abroad budgets
- Monthly spending
- Bank accounts & transfers
- Credit cards & credit history
- Interest & debt
- Tuition & financial aid
- Work income & taxes
- Subscriptions, scams & emergency funds
Common mistakes & risks
Fixed costs, spending money and the emergency fund in one account, so you never know what is actually free to spend.
Reading “minimum due” as “all I owe this month” and ignoring revolving interest.
Taking a card for the welcome offer without checking the annual fee and how it is waived.
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Upcoming courses
Full L｜Money
(Sample) Study-abroad budgeting & remittance basics
- DateSat 08/23, 14:00–16:30
- VenueOnline
- SpeakerTBC
- Seats40 (full)
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