These are resource for Financial Literacy:
ASIC's Money Management resource
he Australian Securities and Investment Commission has published a range of educational and money management resources for humanitarian entrants to Australia.
The money management content will equip Literacy Practitioners with a valuable set of teaching resources that will assist in the learning needs of clients. The resources cater for different learning and literacy levels and cover topics including, household budgets, banking, paying bills, saving money, contracts, credit, types of credit debt working in Australia and insurance.
The content can be downloaded for free from ASIC’s MoneySmart website
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Right on the Money: Taking Control of Personal Finances
This DVD and workbook for adult language, literacy and numeracy learners covers:
- developing a personal budget
- using a savings plan
- understanding debt and consumer credit and
- making informed personal financial decisions.
Editorial details
TAFE NSW Access and General Education Curriculum Centre
Imprint: Granville, NSW, 2006. 147 p.; spiralbound + DVD
Availability
Order from: TAFE NSW Resource Distribution Centre
website: www.det.nsw.edu.au/tafenswrdc
email: taferesources@tafensw.edu.au
Phone: 02 9793 3347
Cost
Purchase price: $37.18
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An introduction to Australian Bookkeeping Practices
This resource has been developed to support migrants with overseas skills and experience in bookkeeping, who are currently experiencing difficulty in engaging within the Australian workforce.
The resource contains:
- Customised curriculum incorporating accredited modules from the CGFEA, MYOB and Employability Services Training Packages where appropriate.
- Preparation tools, activities and templates to prepare participants for employment
Editorial details
Author: Marie Pandeloglou and Rhonda Pelettier
Imprint: Spectrum Education and Training, 2009
Availability
Cost:
Purchase price: $25
Free electronic copy available for download from the Spectrum website.
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Get set to work with the GST: a literacy and numeracy resource
This book is designed to help people who need to develop literacy and numeracy skills to work with the Goods and Services Tax (GST). It provides practice exercises and answers and uses examples from four different fields: retail, automotive sales, service and repair, hospitality, and asset maintenance, and addresses units of competency in the training packages relating to these industries. The book is divided into three parts:
- The ideas in the GST
- The jobs in the GST
- The maths in the GST
It provides worksheets, workplace documents, worked examples of how to calculate GST and an introduction to terminology used in the GST. The resource is likely to be useful to anyone struggling to understand the GST and needing to use it to operate their business.
Editorial details
Author: Wardle, Jill
Imprint: Melbourne: AMES Consulting, 2002. vi, 202 p.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: $27.50 (including GST)
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Money Business for Boards
This resource is an interactive learning resource to support BSBGOV403A Analyse financial reports and budgets. The resource is in CD format and has been developed for Indigenous Governing Committee members of incorporated organisations. It uses animation, voice and interactive learning activities to guide the learner through the process of planning, analysing and finalising an organisational budget.
Editorial details
The Learning Workshop Pty Ltd.
Availability
The Learning Workshop Pty Ltd
Suite 12
The Conservatory
12 Lake Street
Cairns QLD 4870
Ph: (07) 4041 0299
Cost
Purchase price: $70
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Peer tutor 3 numeracy activity tool kit
This video contains essential information and learning strategies directed at improving numeracy. The techniques for becoming a peer tutor are demonstrated. Four profiles are offered: lawn-mowing business, making a poster, in the park and travel. Within these profiles tutors can see how topics such as estimation, time, budgeting, measuring, sorting, volume and map work can be applied to everyday practical situations.
Note: this is only one of a set of resources. Peer tutor toolkits 1 and 2 focussing on literacy are also available.
Editorial details
Imprint: Cairns, QLD: Tropical North Queensland TAFE., 2003. video cassette (53 min)
Availability
Indigenous Studies Product Development Unit
Tropical North Queensland TAFE
PMB 1
Cairns QLD 4870
Ph: 07 4042 2347/ 07 4042 2480
Email: ispdu.tnqit@det.qld.gov.au
Cost
Purchase price:
- $31.50 (including GST) plus postage and handling for each of the three toolkits
- $32.50 (inc GST) for a set of 4 learning guides
- $29.00 (inc GST) for the set of 4 learning guides unbound or on CD
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