Financial Readiness for Young Professionals 

Master your finances and invest in your future.

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Sound personal financial management is a critical skill that equips students to be future-ready, face life's changes and transitions with confidence, and thrive across personal and professional life domains.

Most financial literacy programmes focus only on the hard skills, tools and techniques associated with personal finance management. CFG's Financial Readiness for Young Professionals (CFG1004) course provides students with training in essential financial planning skills. Students will develop the financial know-how as well as positive habits and practices related to financial decision-making.

Students will learn fundamental principles of planning for life goals, managing debt and budgeting as well as be introduced to insurance, tax and CPF. They will also learn how to make sound decisions on how to invest in line with their return objectives, risk tolerance and cashflow needs, and how to regulate their emotions in response to the inevitable volatilities in the financial markets.

Learning Outcomes

Character Investing Principles
Understand the basics of money and inflation
Fundamental Skills of Financial Management
Learn how to plan for life goals, budget and manage debt
Emotional Regulation
Be introduced to insurance, tax and CPF
Evaluate Risk
Learn how to invest in line with return objectives, risk tolerance and cashflow needs



Course Details & Registration 

Course Units: 2 Units, Unrestricted Elective (UE) Course. This course is exempt from the limit on Level-1000 courses.
Pre-requisites: No requirements
Assessment and Grading Basis: CS/CU
Schedule: Semester 1 and 2 of AY26/27
Mode of Enrolment: CourseReg Rounds 1-3

Please select the lecture group according to your faculty:
L01 – FASS, L02 – CDE/CEG, L03 – FoS, L04 – SoC, L05 – Business, L06 – Law/ YLLSoM/YST, L07 – Exchange Students.

For students who are not successful during the CourseReg registration period, you may submit an appeal via EduRec during the appeal period.

All undergraduate students are welcome to apply.

Postgraduate and BTech students who are interested in enrolling in CFG1004 may fill out the registration form starting 2 July 2026.

Please refer to the FAQs for more information.

Email

For any questions on this course, email May Hua at financialreadiness@nus.edu.sg.


What our students say

As somebody who only knows the basics about financial management and initially found the topic very daunting, this course felt like the perfect place to start.

It helped me introspect on why I felt the way I did about money and gave some concrete advice on the steps I can take to move towards financial independence: How I can control my money instead of letting money control me.


— Asfar Banu Alim, Faculty of Science

I really like that this course can be done at one's own pace and time as I have been busy with project deadlines and tests. Furthermore, the 14 sections were engaging and halfway through the course, I was already thinking about how to properly budget to achieve my financial goals.


— Tan Zi Feng, NUS Business School

This course provides us with many essential life skills that we may think we have, but in fact are not equipped with. I love how flexible this course is, and it is very interactive due to the inclusion of many videos and drawings.


— Lucia Pan Yucheng, College of Humanities and Sciences

This course was well taught and had content that was relevant and of importance. The course debunked many incorrect notions of budgeting and financial planning as well. Would highly recommend it to students who are interested in financial planning but do not know where to start.


— Haja Shareef Mohamed Suhail, College of Design and Engineering

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