Managing Your Personal Finances - Softcover

Ryan, Joan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0538628979 ISBN 13: 9780538628976

Publisher: South-Western Pub, 1997

Synopsis

Challenges students with vocabulary exercise, review questions, problem-solving activities, financial check-ups, and template disk activities.

About this title

Review

1. Choosing Your Career. 2. Planning Your Career. 3. Getting the Job. 4. Adapting to Work. 5. Work Laws and Responsibilities. 6. Pay, Benefits, and Working Conditions. 7. Federal Income Tax. 8. Budgets and Financial Records. 9. Checking Accounts and Other Banking Services. 10. Saving for the Future. 11. Investing for Your Future. 12. Investing in Stocks. 13. Investing in Bonds. 14. Investing in Mutual Funds, Real Estate, and Other Choices. 15. Retirement and Estate Planning. 16. Credit in America. 17. Credit Records and Laws. 18. Responsibilities and Costs of Credit. 19. Problems with Credit. 20. Personal Decision Making. 21. Renting a Residence. 22. Buying a Home. 23. Buying and Owning for a Vehicle. 24. Family Decisions. 25. Introduction to Risk Management. 26. Property and Liability Insurance. 27. Health and Life Insurance. 28. Role of Consumers in a Free Enterprise System. 29. Consumer Protection. 30. Dispute Resolution.

About the Author

Joan Ryan, M.B.A., Ph.D., C.M.A., has taught personal finance for over 20 years. She began at Willamette High School in Eugene, Oregon, where this textbook was initially developed and tested. After four years there, she taught in the business department at Lane Community College (also in Eugene) for 12 years. After eight years at Clackamas Community College, she was department chair for the next six years. Then she resumed teaching accounting, personal finance, and business law, retiring from full-time teaching in 2014. She also is a C.M.A. (certified management accountant), a state-certified mediator, and adjunct faculty at Clackamas Community College and Portland State University in the graduate Masters in International Management program.

Edition details

• Publisher: South-Western Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0538628979
• ISBN 13: 9780538628976
• Binding: Paperback