Personal Financial Planning Winter 2025

BUS 3340
Closed
University of Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Andrew Carrothers
Associate Professor of Finance
4
Timeline
  • January 17, 2025
    Experience start
  • April 5, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
1/1 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Canada
Large enterprise
Banking & finance

Experience scope

Categories
Financial services Investment Communications
Skills
business services data analysis personal financial planning research
Learner goals and capabilities

Beginning in January 2025, students with theoretical and practical knowledge regarding personal finances can engage with your organization in a comprehensive financial planning simulation including budgeting, personal taxation principles, the importance of saving, investment strategies, retirement planning, and real estate and mortgages.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Intermediate levels
50 learners
Project
25 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Presentation video

Personal financial plan document

Written report

Project timeline
  • January 17, 2025
    Experience start
  • April 5, 2025
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Students will help satisfy your corporate social responsibility goals related to financial literacy and engagement with post-secondary educational institutions. The simulation exercise includes:

  1. Evaluation of the personal financial planning needs of a new client.
  2. Creation of a personal financial plan for a new client.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Be available to judge student presentations.

Be available to make a presentation about financial planning to students and answer questions.

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.

Are you a large financial institution that provides investment advice and sells investment products?

Do you employ investment advisors in Prince Edward Island?