It’s one thing to make money, and another thing entirely to know how to manage your finances.
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve taken several courses on financial management as part of #TheSprintYear.
Last year, through the Victoria Fakiya from Techpoint newsletter, I joined a WhatsApp community called Equity Merchant. At first, I didn’t really take it seriously. But over the past two months, I started paying closer attention to the conversations happening there, only to realize that the discussions went far beyond everyday finance talks.
They weren’t just the regular conversations around budgeting and expenditure, but deeper discussions around finance, investment, and equity. The conversations focused on how finance and equity can either sustain a company or lead to its downfall.
Along the line, I’ve learned that not every investor should be accepted, and not every deal should be closed with equity as the return.
This growing interest in finance also pushed me to attend one of the sessions organized by the The Investment Society FUTO. Although I’m a member, I haven’t attended the finance classes in a while.
Our last session was particularly interesting as we kicked off classes on financial modelling. We learned a lot about the dos and don’ts of building financial models. During the discussions, we also touched on equity, and that was the part that caught my interest the most.
I’m really looking forward to having more conversations around equity in the next classs.
