Personal finance

"Personal Finance is a comprehensive Personal Finance text which includes a wide range of pedagogical aids to keep students engaged and instructors on track. This book is arranged by learning objectives. The headings, summaries, reviews, and problems all link together via the learning objectives. This helps instructors to teach what they want, and to assign the problems that correspond to the learning objectives covered in class. Personal Finance includes personal finance planning problems with links to solutions, and personal application exercises, with links to their associated worksheet(s) or spreadsheet(s). In addition, the text boasts a large number of links to videos, podcasts, experts' tips or blogs, and magazine articles to illustrate the practical applications for concepts covered in the text."--Open Textbook Library.

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Personal financial planning -- Basic ideas of finance -- Financial statements -- Evaluating choices : time, risk, and value -- Financial plans : budgets -- Taxes and tax planning -- Financial management -- Consumer strategies -- Buying a home -- Personal risk management : insurance -- Personal risk management : retirement and estate planning -- Investing -- Behavioral finance and market behavior -- The practice of investment -- Owning stocks -- Owning bonds -- Investing in mutual funds, commodities, real estate, and collectibles -- Career planning.