The whole personal finance map
9 categories, 120 lessons and about 16 hours of material — from your first paycheck to your first mortgage. Money Foundations and Credit fundamentals are free to start, with no card and no trial clock.
2 categories free to start 7 categories with Plus
- categories
- 9categories
- modules
- 29modules
- lessons
- 120lessons
- per lesson
- 5–10 minper lesson
Categories
Money Foundations
Free basicsWhere your money comes from, and where it actually goes.
18 lessons · 13 free · 4 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Credit
Free basicsThe number that decides what everything else costs you.
10 lessons · 5 free · 4 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Debt
PlusWhat it really costs, and the fastest honest way out.
13 lessons · 12 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Banking
PlusWhere your money sits, and what it earns while it sits there.
9 lessons · 8 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Investing
PlusHow money grows, what that growth costs, and what actually moves it.
17 lessons · 16 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Retirement
PlusThe accounts, the match, and the arithmetic of getting there.
10 lessons · 9 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Taxes
PlusBrackets, withholding, credits, and why your refund is not a bonus.
13 lessons · 12 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Housing
PlusRenting, buying, and the costs nobody quotes you.
13 lessons · 9 with Plus · 4 with Pro
Financial Protection
PlusFraud, scams, insurance, and the defenses that work while you are panicking.
17 lessons · 16 with Plus · 1 with Pro
Not ready for an account? Start with the free resources:Money guidesCalculatorsMoney glossary
Reading the map is not the same as walking it.
Every lesson grades your answers as you go and explains why. Start with the free foundations — no card, and nothing you learn is taken away later.
Beacon provides financial education. It is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and it does not account for your individual circumstances.