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Online Master’s Studies – Is it Worth It
More and more professionals are going back to school to build their skill set and make themselves more attractive to future employers. But is an MBA training the sound investment many believe it to be? Is an MBA worth all the trouble? More to the point, will you benefit enough from your master’s studies to make the investment worth every hour, every cent? If numbers are the sole criterion to make judgment calls by, the answer is yes.
A recent survey of employees in the finance sector compared the earning power of Chief Finance Officers without a degree, CFOs with a Bachelor’s degree, and CFOs with an MBA. The finding? CFOs without a degree have an average salary of $39,000 while those with a Bachelor’s degree earned twice as much. CFOs with MBAs, on the other hand, raked in approximately $105,000. Clearly, even in a volatile economy, the return on investment on master’s studies – whether online or off – is well worth the money and the time spent.
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Financial Education Needed ‘More Than Ever’
More needs to be done to improve the nation’s financial knowledge, it has been suggested. According to Alastair Mathews, director of policy at the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg), education on monetary topics, ranging from UK personal loans and savings accounts to budgeting and mortgages, should be delivered over the entire duration of time that a child spends at school. Mr Mathews reported that, “like with a lot of learning”, teaching about money should play a role in each of the four main stages of compulsory education and be tailored towards the specific age of the recipient.
The director stated that financial education needs to start with young children “because attitude formation starts quite early and, even though this is very basic – about the use of money and keeping it safe and saving it – it all helps to set the attitudes in the right direction”. As pupils get older, Mr Mathews reported that such guidance should become more detailed, so that by the time they reach the 14 to 16-year-old age bracket they already have a certain level of awareness about fiscal matters not only from school but also from family members and their friends. In turn this can help them to foster a more responsible attitude to loans, overdrafts and other financial products and so avoid developing unmanageable money problems in later life.
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