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Access OCAD University handouts and links, external websites, online tools and mobile apps! For more information about each step, read Do What You Love: Financial Planning for Artists & Designers.
Understand Your Relationship with Money
Set Goals
Know Your Numbers
Track Your Money
Build a Budget
Make a Savings Plan
Make a Debt Repayment Plan
Protect Yourself
Get Help
Stay Motivated
Step 1. Understand Your Relationship with Money
- How Financially Fit Are You? quiz (Do What You Love, p. 2-3)
- Risk profile quiz (getsmarteraboutmoney.ca)
- Eight Financial Archetypes quiz (Brent Kessel)
- Moolala: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things with Their Money (Bruce Sellery)
- Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money (Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin)
- Unhappiness and the Fear of Not Fitting In (Gail Vaz-Oxlade)
Step 2. Set Goals
- Personal Goal-Setting (Mind Tools)
- Planning for Post Secondary Education (CanLearn)
- Saving for a Goal (Practical Money Skills for Life)
- Financial Planning for Students (Debt Free Forever)
- My Financial Plan module (see The City: A Financial Life Skills Resource)
- Career Planning (see Career Development)
- VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire
Step 3. Know Your Numbers
- Net Worth Statement (Gail Vaz-Oxlade)
- Budgeting worksheets (see Net Worth tab, Excel 97, Financial Aid & Awards)
- OSAP (Ontario Student Assistance Program)
- Bursaries (OCAD U)
- Employment (Work-Study program and OCAD U job board)
Step 4. Track Your Money
- Budgeting worksheets (see Track Your Money tab, Excel 97, Financial Aid & Awards)
- Cash Flow Worksheet for Artists & Designers (Financial Aid & Awards)
- Cash Flow Worksheet for Artists & Designers (Excel 97) (Financial Aid & Awards)
Step 5. Build a Budget
- Budget Calculator (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
- Budgeting in 5 Steps (Financial Aid & Awards)
- Budgeting worksheets (Excel 97, Financial Aid & Awards)
- Managing Your Money for School (budget worksheets, Debt Free Forever)
- Determining Your Expenses (OCAD U)
- Student Discounts (OCAD)
Step 6. Make a Savings Plan
- Saving Money (Investor Education Fund)
- 118 Ways to Save Money in College (CollegeScholarships.org)
- Save a Million Calculator (Practical Money Skills for Life)
- Investments at a Glance (Canadian Securities Adminstrators)
- Emergency Fund (Practical Money Skills for Life)
Step 7. Make a Debt Repayment Plan
- What's the Cost? (debt repayment calculator)
- Financial Blog for Students (Debt Free Forever)
- How to Manage Student Debt (video, Investor Education Fund)
- 10 Tips to Beat Debt (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
- Loan Repayment Calculator (CanLearn)
- How Much Debt Can You Afford? (Debt Free Forever)
- Taking Charge of Your Debts (Industry Canada)
- Credit Card Interactive Tool (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
- TransUnion (Credit Bureau)
- Equifax (Credit Bureau)
Step 8. Protect Yourself
- Types of Scams (Phonebusters)
- Banking calculators (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
- Insurance (Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
- Fraud Prevention Forum (Competition Bureau)
- Protect Your PIN (Interac)
- Consumer Information (Industry Canada)
Step 9. Get Help
- Financial Aid & Awards Office (OCAD U)
- Getting Advice (Investor Education Fund)
- The Financial Guide for Post Secondary Students (PDF, Industry Canada)
- Your Money (Canadian Bankers Association)
- Education Savings for Your Child (for parents, CanLearn)
- Canada Council (scholarships, research and art grants)
- Toronto Arts Council
- Art and Artists Info Guide (Canada Business Ontario)
- Career Development (OCAD U)
- CRA (Canada Revenue Agency)
- Harmony Tax Services (Tammi Hensch)
Step 10. Stay Motivated
- Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist (Cay Lang)
- Career resources available in Career Development
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Last Modified:12/20/2012 10:13:44 AM
