MGMT 168Personal Financial Health: Theory and Practice
Management · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Helps develop class of financially literate students who will be financially secure today and in future. Students gain knowledge, skills, and confidence to take charge of their financial futures and have potential to prosper. Covers many financial decisions made by entrepreneurs. Interplay between financial conditions of business and financial situation of owner is something that many entrepreneurs fail to plan for when they launch new business. Specific topics covered include budgeting, time value of money, installment purchases, protection of assets, principles of investing, retirement and estate planning, psychology of money, income taxes, banking, and credit. Topics from behavioral finance include suboptimal spending, mistakes investors make, and money and happiness.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.