Decision Making and Budgeting (Personal Finance Essentials) - Hardcover

Heath, Julia A; Julia A Heath

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1604139862 ISBN 13: 9781604139860

Publisher: Facts on File, 2012

Synopsis

Students often encounter difficulty making a financial plan and sticking with it. Decision Making and Budgeting teaches them how to discover their financial goals and how to make a budget in order to best reach those goals. This helpful new volume features a wide assortment of useful features to get students excited about planning their financial future, including full-color photographs, an index, glossary, sidebars, and quizzes.

Chapters include:

• Making Decisions
• Setting Goals
• Budgeting
• Insurance
• Consumer Decisions
• Consumer Rights and Avoiding Scams.

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Reviews

The Personal Finance Essentials series offers a far more nuanced understanding of contemporary personal economics than simply balancing a checkbook. This volume boils down decision making to its most basic forms in order to explain fundamental economic principles such as opportunity cost, conscientious consumerism, and budgeting. Real-world economic questions, such as whether collision insurance is worth the cost or whether having a roommate may be a smart fiscal choice, are used as practical discussions. Although the section on responsible use of credit is brief, the book includes many frank and much-needed lessons in financial literacy, with application questions following each chapter. A quiz to test readers’ knowledge is offered in the appendix. Any series that deals with money and finance can be daunting, but the lessons here go far beyond the theoretical. Grades 9-12. --Erin Anderson

Edition details

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604139862
• ISBN 13: 9781604139860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 4