MONEY MATTERS

A Financial Literacy Textbook Sponsored by CFA Society Ireland

Money Matters is a new and ready-to-go learning package offering an opportunity for Transition Year (TY) students to learn fundamental life skills relating to financial literacy. Money Matters will help students to learn about saving, investing, enterprise and general money management.

The book is tailored for young people in the following ways:

1. It is story-focused whereby students can learn about pensions through characters like Sarah who starts her first job and is wondering what “tax relief” means for her.

2. It is full of relevant modernity including ESG, fintech, online brokers, differentiating between trading and investing as well as using technology for active learning.

3. It gives a real taste of the diversity of careers available today and tomorrow in finance. Each chapter contains a case study of a CFA Institute charterholder and highlights how the theory learned in subjects like accounting, business, maths and economics connect with the practicality of everyday life and life-changing decisions.