Personal Financial Literacy Updated, 3rd Precision Exams Edition

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PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY, Third Edition, covers the most current and relevant financial topics that impact today’s students, including budgeting, identity theft, saving, investing, risk management, and careful use of credit. This text teaches students how to plan and manage their personal finances; how to live a financially successful life; and what their financial responsibilities are as citizens. It is aligned with the Jump$tart Coalition's National Standards for Personal Financial Literacy. The personal focus of this course makes it relevant and meaningful to those just starting down the path to personal financial independence. MindTap for Personal Financial Literacy, Updated Precision Exams Edition, 3rd edition is the digital learning solution that helps teachers engage and transform today’s students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. MindTap for this course includes the full, interactive eBook as well as auto-graded reading activities throughout the eBook for each lesson as well as student tools like flashcards, practice quizzes, and auto-graded homework and tests.

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Authors

Joan Ryan

Joan Ryan has taught personal finance for more than 20 years. While teaching at Willamette High School in Eugene, Oregon, she developed the original personal finance course materials for publication. Dr. Ryan currently is a faculty member in the business department at Clackamas Community College, Portland, OR. She also teaches accounting at Portland State University and is a Certified Managerial Accountant.

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Christie Ryan

Christie Ryan, B.A., M.A., LMHC. As a licensed mental health counselor, she works with troubled and disadvantaged youth and their families, teaching budgeting and money management skills. She has also taught student success skills and psychology courses at Highline Community College and Tacoma Community College. She holds an Educational Staff Associate certificate in school counseling and has also worked as a case manager for Southwest Washington Aging and Disability Services.

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Table of Contents

UNIT I: MONEY AND INCOME.
1. How Your Choices Affect Income.
2. Income, Benefits, and Taxes.
3. Your Purchasing Power.
UNIT II: DECISION MAKING AND PLANNING.
4. Financial Decisions and Planning.
5. The Banking System.
6. Personal Risk Management.
UNIT III: USING CREDIT WISELY.
7. Buying Decisions.
8. Preserving Your Credit.
9. Credit Problems and Laws.
UNIT IV: SAVING AND INVESTING.
10. Basics of Saving and Investing.
11. Saving and Investing Options.
12. Buying and Selling Investments.

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Personal Financial Literacy Updated, 3rd Precision Exams Edition

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Joan Ryan

Christie Ryan