Personal Finance Planning, Loose-Leaf Version

Billingsley, Randy; Gitman, Lawrence J.; Joehnk, Michael D.

ISBN 10: 1305862333 ISBN 13: 9781305862333

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2016

Synopsis

In the midst of today's constantly shifting financial environment and ever-changing lives, personal financial planning is more important than ever before for life success. PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING, 11e creates a solid framework with the tools and techniques to help you better understand, define, and achieve your financial goals. The book follows a life-cycle approach, covering financial plans, assets, credit, insurance, investment, and retirement as you progress through a lifetime. Written in a conversational style with an inviting design and focus on decision making, this edition reinforces solid financial principles with expert advice, helpful tools and examples of both financial successes and failures drawn from actual life. You learn how to effectively use the financial calculator and Internet as critical financial tools. Numerous resources and additional financial insights on this edition's valuable companion website further your learning. Financial Planning software that corresponds with the text provides the first step in your continued personal financial success. The innovative new CengageNOW online learning system helps with homework and achieving the grade you want while focusing your study on the areas you need most. Personal financial planning at its best begins with Gitman/Joehnk's Personal Financial Planning, 11e in your hands today!

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About the Author

Dr. Billingsley is a finance professor at Virginia Tech University and is an award-winning teacher at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research, consulting, and teaching focus on equity valuation, risk management and derivatives-based strategies, and regulatory finance. In 2006 he published a financial analysis book with the Wharton School. In addition, his research has been published in refereed journals, including the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, the Journal of Financial Research, and the Journal of Futures Markets. As a consultant, Dr. Billingsley has served as an expert witness on equity valuation, capital cost estimation, and economic damages analysis. His consulting clients include BellSouth Telecommunications, the United States Telecommunications Association, LECG, Sprint and others. A CFA charter-holder, Dr. Billingsley has taught CFA examination review courses at multiple levels for the last 15 years throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is the author of Portfolio Management, Equity Investments and Alternative and Derivative Investments in Candidate Study Notes, Volumes 3 and 4.

Edition details

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1305862333
• ISBN 13: 9781305862333
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Language: English