Understanding Your Finances
Welcome to the Office of Financial Aid Financial Literacy Counseling Center!
Brooklyn College has contracted with Ocelot, an educational information company, to provide 24/7 online financial literacy counseling. Sessions include short videos that help you digest complicated financial information easily and effectively.
Financial literacy courses topics include:
- Money Basics
- Budgeting
- Saving Money
- Debt and Borrowing
- Credit Cards and Credit Scoring
- Identity Theft
How to Access Financial Literacy Counseling
- Visit the Brooklyn College Counseling Center.
- Create (register) a login (if you do not have one); otherwise, sign in with the email you used to register. If you forgot your password, select the “FORGOT PASSWORD” option.
- Choose the “Sessions” tab at the top of the page to view the available sessions.
- Start or resume a session by selecting the “Start” or “Resume” button next to the session of interest.
- Complete the session or return to the session later (session can take about 20 minutes).
- Use the knowledge you learned in the session to improve your finances.