Karka

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Personal Finance & Investing — Money, Mastered

Budgets, EMIs, SIPs, tax and retirement — learned in real spreadsheets and simulators, India-first. Education, not advice.

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8 modules 49 lessons 24 enrolled ~12h of material

First three lessons free. Full access with Karka Pass from ₹49 for 7 days (7 days ₹49 · 30 days ₹199 · 1 year ₹1,999).

Personal Finance & Investing — Money, Mastered

By the end

What you'll build

  • Build a real budget, emergency fund and debt plan in live spreadsheets
  • Understand SIPs, mutual funds, index funds and the 80C tax bucket
  • Plan goals, retirement corpus and net worth with the 25x rule
  • Finish with a complete one-page financial plan (education, not advice)

Curriculum

What's inside

8 modules · 49 lessons

  1. 01

    Money Foundations

    5 lessons
    • The Snowball, the Leak, and the Pocket Test
    • Money Words You Will Hear Everywhereflashcard sr
    • Watch ₹10,000 Snowballspreadsheet lab
    • Foundations Check: Snowballs and Leaksquiz
    • The Money Order of Operations
  2. 02

    Budgeting & Cash Flow

    5 lessons
    • The 50/30/20 Rule, Pune Edition
    • Build a ₹60,000 Monthly Budgetspreadsheet lab
    • Size Your Emergency Fundspreadsheet lab
    • Budget Language: Fill the Gapsfill blank
    • The Food Delivery Interventionprompt lab
  3. 03

    Debt, EMIs & Credit

    5 lessons
    • EMIs Decoded: The Price Tag Behind Easy Payments
    • The True Cost of a ₹8 Lakh Carspreadsheet lab
    • Credit Check: Scores, Cards and Trapsquiz
    • Two Debts, One Planprompt lab
    • Your Credit Score in Plain Words
  4. 04

    Investing: SIPs, Funds & Stocks

    6 lessons
    • The Shared Bus: Mutual Funds, Index Funds and SIPs
    • SIP Growth Machine: Your First Corpus Calculationspreadsheet lab
    • Lumpsum vs SIP: A Ten-Year Racechart lab
    • Funds, NAV and Risk: Check Your Understandingquiz
    • Risk and Diversification: Never One Basket
    • + 1 more lesson
  5. 05

    Tax & Insurance, Simply

    5 lessons
    • The Tax Staircase: Slabs, 80C and the Regime Choice
    • The 80C Bucket: How Much Room Is Left?spreadsheet lab
    • Insurance Is an Umbrella You Rent
    • Tax and Insurance: Check Your Understandingquiz
    • Roleplay: Talk Your Cousin Out of a Bad Bundleprompt lab
  6. 06

    Goals, Retirement & Net Worth

    10 lessons
    • Give Every Rupee a Job
    • The 25x Rule: Find Your Retirement Numberspreadsheet lab
    • Net Worth: Your Money Scoreboardspreadsheet lab
    • Goal Planner: The ₹12 Lakh Down-Paymentprompt lab
    • Checkpoint: Goals, Corpus and Net Worthquiz
    • + 5 more lessons
  7. 07

    Capstone — Your Financial Plan

    6 lessons
    • The Brief: One Page for Meera
    • D1: Meera Budget and Savings Ratespreadsheet lab
    • D2: The Safety Net, In the Right Orderprompt lab
    • D3: The Goal Map — Wedding, House, Retirementprompt lab
    • D4: The SIP Allocation That Uses Every Rupeespreadsheet lab
    • + 1 more lesson
  8. 08

    Get Hired — Careers in Finance

    7 lessons
    • What the Job Actually Is
    • Tools of the Trade
    • Talk Like the Trade: Recruiter Vocabularyflashcard sr
    • The Skills Assessmentprompt lab
    • Your X-to-Y Case Studyprompt lab
    • + 2 more lessons

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

49 lessons across 8 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.

Practice as you go

Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.

A certificate at the end

Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.

Ready when you are.

Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.