PFIN

This edition has numerous features, relating personal finance to students’ day-to-day lives. These include “You Can Do It Now” on personal financial actions students can take now, “Financial Impact of Personal Choices” illustrating financial effects of key personal decisions and “Financial Planning Tips.” It presents students with decision-making frameworks and up-to-date information on key topics that include buying a home or car, setting up and maintaining a budget, handling student loans, insuring your life, health and property, investing to meet goals like retirement and doing your taxes.

This edition provides effective emphasis on decision-making frameworks and relevance to students’ day-to-day lives.

Solutions offer an engaging print textbook, tear-out review cards and an interactive online learning solution, all delivered and influenced by a deep understanding of student’s workflow and learning styles.

The “Behavior Matters” feature explores how our psychology affects our financial planning decisions for better or worse and how to take it into account to consistently make better decisions.

This edition allows students to see a road map of their financial futures. The “Planning Over a Lifetime" feature at the end of each chapter shows how the given financial tools allow them to best adapt to changes over a lifetime.

PFIN, 8e allows students to see a road map of their financial futures. The “Planning Over a Lifetime" feature at the end of each chapter shows how the given financial tools allow them to best adapt to changes over a lifetime.

Shorter, comprehensive chapters in a modern design present content in a more engaging and accessible format that increases the number of students who read the chapter without minimizing coverage for your course.

The “Working with a Financial Advisor,” feature is strategically integrated across the book. This helps to target the next steps in applying personal financial planning to students’ lives going forward. A new appendix on “Using Spreadsheets” has also been added. This illustrates how financial planning concepts may be applied using the data in the book and the personal financial data of students.