Family Financial Planning

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

*Students in this Program Will...
*Career Areas
*Graduate Faculty
*Course Requirements
*Becoming a Certified Financial Planner

Students in this specialization enhance personal financial knowledge, complete a master's degree or a certificate program and develop competencies that can lead to the Certified Financial Planner designation by the CFP International Board of Standards. The program focuses on the efforts of households to improve their economic well-being through effective use of resources, and on the economic and social systems that enhance or constrain these efforts. The degree prepares students for further graduate study or for work in human services, Cooperative Extension, the private sector or the public sector. If you enjoy working with people and with numbers, consider the Family Financial Planning masters program or graduate certificate within the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies. This online financial planning curriculum lets you do course work when it's convenient for you. You can complete a masters degree or graduate certificate by taking courses that help you enhance your personal financial knowledge. It could lead to professional certification by the CPF Board of Standards.

The program was developed by Great Plains IDEA, a consortium of ten Midwestern universities, including the University of Nebraska. You can complete the program through any of the participating universities. When you select the University of Nebraska, you will take classes from the other participating universities: Iowa State, Kansas State, Montana State, North Dakota State, Oklahoma State University, and South Dakota State. Your credits from these institutions will be placed on your NU transcript.

Students in this program will:

• Apply a systems approach in working with individuals and families relative to financial management
• Integrate financial planning content areas (housing & real estate, insurance, investments, personal income taxation, retirement, and estate planning) into the development of financial plans and targeted financial planning recommendations that meet specific individual and family need sets
• Effectively apply verbal, written, and graphic communication and presentation skills to client presentations
• Synthesize and integrate complex and conflicting information sources into cohesive, defendable recommendations for clients
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• Insurance
• Real estate
• Investments
• Retirement
• Tax and estate planning
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Graduate Faculty: Online family financial planning courses are taught by the best faculty in the discipline from several universities including: Iowa State University, Kansas State University, Montana State University, North Dakota State University, Oklahoma State University, South Dakota State University, University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Course Requirements
The graduate certificate program consists of 18 semester credit hours. You will register for courses and pay tuition and fees to UNL. Your program adviser will send instructions and course registration materials for each course. The following six courses make up the program of studies for the certificate.

CYAF 821 Insurance Planning for Families
CYAF 823 Estate Planning for Families
CYAF 824 Fundamentals of Financial Planning
CYAF 828 Retirement Planning, Employee Benefits and the Family
CYAF 840 Personal Income Taxation
CYAF 883 Investing for the Family's Future
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