Financial Literacy and Money Script: A Caribbean Perspective

• Explores the importance and golden rules of goal setting; as well as budgets, their importance and the steps necessary in creating such a plan
• Demonstrates financial ratios and their importance when making investment decisions as well as some useful tips on being financially literate
• Showcases the components of financial accounting as well as an introduction in the financial equation

Christine Sahadeo worked as an Audit Senior, Assistant to the Inspector of Banks, CEO/Director of Subsidiary of the Massy Group, Minister in the Ministry of Finance for the period 2003-07. In 2008 she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine. There she embarked on many social programs including the launch of Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter (UWI), Financial Literacy: Train the Trainers, an In-Service Training program for Accounting, Auditing and Taxation Students (ISTAATS) and the Young Entrepreneurs Association of the University of the West Indies (YEA UWI) in 2012. She was the chair of a publicly quoted company and chaired companies both in the private and public sectors.