Resource name: ASIC/FIDO Website Links for the NSW Commerce Syllabus Years 7-10
Student group: 7-12
Description: Web-based resource for teachers with links to relevant information pages on the ASIC's FIDO website. The material supports the NSW Commerce syllabus for Years 7-10. The content is topical with real-life examples about financial matters and up-to-date information on financial products and services, and consumer rights and responsibilities.
Publisher: Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC)
Developed by: ASIC
Copyright owned by: ASIC
Last updated: July 2006
Published: August 2003
CFL Framework:
- Knowledge and Understanding: consumer rights and responsibilities; risk factors; making choices; setting goals; budgeting, savings and debt management.
- Competence: Communication skills; resolution of consumer disputes; analytical thinking, interpretive and problem solving skills; prioritising; creation and management of budgets and financial records; evaluation of different methods of payment.
- Enterprise: decision making skills to increase income and wealth; taking informed risks with earning income; building wealth; making business related decisions.
- Responsibility: demonstrate informed and assertive buying behaviours; recognition of responsibilities and consequences for self and others on spending behaviours and attitudes.
Curriculum area: NSW Commerce Y7-10
Adult Education Standards: n/a
Available in: Material can be downloaded from ASIC's FIDO website; hard copies can be obtained at no charge by calling 1300 300 630. Click on the following link to download a copy of the ASIC/FIDO weblinks for NSW Commerce Syllabus Years 7-10 ASIC/FIDO weblinks for NSW commerce syllabus (years 7-10) (ASIC_FIDO_weblinks_NSW_Commerce_syllabus.pdf)
Licensing arrangements: n/a
Professional development: n/a
Quality indicator: Meets the Financial Literacy Foundation's Essential Elements eligibility and assessment requirements and developed in consultation with the NSW Board of Studies and MESSTA.
Material type: Web-based material or hard copies on request.
Website: Download material from ASIC's FIDO website.