Brassdale courses

OUR COURSES

Three Volumes Written for Where You Are Now

Each course addresses a specific financial question that arrives in the second half of life. Read the full descriptions to decide which one is right for your situation.

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Written Lessons

Each session is a written document — careful, thorough, and designed to be read at your own pace rather than watched on a timer.

Weekly Release

Sessions are released on a weekly schedule to allow for reflection and application between each one. You proceed at a pace suited to adult learning.

Practical Materials

Every course includes printable templates, worksheets, or workbooks designed for actual use alongside the reading, not merely for downloading.

The Household Ledger course
4 WEEKS VOLUME I

The Household Ledger

A four-week course for adults who would like to keep a simple monthly ledger of household finances — not a budgeting system or an app, but a quiet handwritten record of inflows, outflows, and small reflections. Participants are walked through setting up the ledger, choosing the few categories that genuinely repay attention, and developing the modest weekly habit of bringing the records up to date.

The course presents this as a contemplative practice rather than a productivity tool. Includes a printable ledger template and a guide to keeping the practice over years rather than months.

What Is Covered

  • How to set up a personal ledger from scratch
  • Choosing categories that mean something to your household
  • The weekly habit of keeping records current
  • Monthly review and reflection practice
  • How to sustain the practice over years, not weeks

Session Outline

1

Why a Ledger, and Why Now

The case for keeping records and what a simple ledger accomplishes

2

Setting Up the Page

Designing your ledger format and choosing meaningful categories

3

The Weekly Entry

Building the habit of regular recording without it becoming burdensome

4

The Monthly Close and What It Tells You

Reading your own ledger and using it to notice patterns over time

COURSE FEE

RM 700

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Saving for Children's Education course
6 SESSIONS VOLUME II

Saving for Children's Education in Midlife

A six-session course built for adults who began parenting later or whose children are now approaching tertiary education while household finances are also bracing for retirement. Lessons cover the realistic cost picture of Malaysian and overseas tertiary education, the role of SSPN-i, education insurance products and their limitations, the conversation with adult children about shared responsibility for fees, and how to balance education funding against one's own retirement plan.

The course offers no formula and is honest about the trade-offs. Includes calculation worksheets.

What Is Covered

  • Realistic cost benchmarks for Malaysian and overseas study
  • SSPN-i — how it works, its limits, and how to use it
  • Education insurance: what it covers and what it does not
  • Balancing education funding with EPF and retirement needs
  • Conversations with adult children about shared responsibility

Session Outline

1

The Cost Picture, Honestly Drawn

What tertiary education costs in Malaysia and abroad, in 2025 figures

2

SSPN-i in Practice

How the scheme works, its tax advantages, and its realistic limits

3

Education Insurance Products

Reading policy terms, understanding commissions, and making an independent assessment

4

Your Own Retirement in the Same Frame

How education funding sits alongside EPF, private pension, and other savings

5

The Conversation With Your Child

How to frame shared financial responsibility — and when to have it

6

Your Own Calculation

Completing the worksheets for your specific situation

COURSE FEE

RM 1,580

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Small Business Succession course
9 MODULES VOLUME III

Small Business Succession in the Second Half of Life

A nine-module course for adults who own a small or family business and are beginning to consider, even loosely, what happens next — whether continuation by a child, sale to a key employee, sale to a third party, or a gradual wind-down. Lessons cover an honest valuation of the enterprise, the legal structures around succession in Malaysia, the tax considerations on transfer, the personal conversations with family members and key staff, and the calendar that typically governs a successful transition.

The course offers no urgency, only a clearer view. Includes a planning workbook.

What Is Covered

  • Honest valuation — what your business is actually worth
  • Four succession paths and how each one works
  • Malaysian Companies Act and succession structures
  • Tax implications of business transfer in Malaysia
  • Conversations with family members and key staff
  • A realistic transition calendar

Module Outline

1

Is This the Right Time to Begin Thinking About Succession?

2

What Your Business Is Worth — An Honest Assessment

3

The Four Paths: Family, Employee, Third Party, Wind-Down

4

Malaysian Legal Structures for Business Transfer

5

Tax Considerations in Malaysian Business Succession

6

Preparing a Successor — Whether Family or Staff

7

The Conversations You Will Need to Have

8

The Transition Calendar — What a Two-to-Five Year Process Looks Like

9

Completing Your Planning Workbook

COURSE FEE

RM 2,250

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT COURSE

Which Course Fits Your Situation?

YOU ARE LOOKING FOR… HOUSEHOLD LEDGER EDUCATION FUNDING SUCCESSION
A personal finance foundation
Household spending clarity
Tertiary education cost planning
Understanding SSPN-i and education insurance
Planning what happens to your business
Malaysian business law and tax context
Printable working documents included

FEES

Course Fees

Each fee is a single payment covering all sessions, all downloadable materials, and future annual updates. No subscriptions. No upselling.

VOLUME I

The Household Ledger

4 weeks · written lessons · printable ledger template

RM 700

  • 4 weekly sessions
  • Printable ledger template
  • Practice maintenance guide
  • Annual content updates
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VOLUME III

Small Business Succession

9 modules · planning workbook

RM 2,250

  • 9 weekly modules
  • Planning workbook (printable)
  • Malaysian legal and tax reference guide
  • Annual content updates
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ACROSS ALL COURSES

Standards That Apply to Every Programme

Annual Updates

All regulatory and data references reviewed at least once annually. Updates sent to enrolled participants.

PDPA 2010 Compliant

Participant data held strictly under Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act 2010.

Practitioner-Reviewed

Legal and tax content reviewed by a qualified Malaysian corporate lawyer before each edition.

No Product Affiliations

No financial product licences held. No commissions received from any provider.

QUESTIONS BEFORE ENROLLING?

We Are Happy to Help You Choose

Contact us by telephone or email before committing to any course. We will help you decide whether it suits your current situation.