Managing your personal finances /

Ryan, Joan S.

Managing your personal finances / Joan S. Ryan. - Mason,OH : South-Western Cengage Learning, 2010. - xv, 738 p.: col. ill 27 cm.

Includes index

Choosing your career -- Planning your career -- Getting the job -- Adapting to work -- Work laws and responsibilities -- Pay, benefits, and working conditions -- Federal income tax -- Budgets and financial records -- Checking accounts and other banking services -- Saving for the future -- Investing for your future -- Investing in stocks -- Investing in bonds -- Investing in mutual funds, real estate, and other choices -- Retirement and estate planning -- Credit in America -- Credit records and laws -- Responsibilities and costs of credit -- Problems with credit -- Personal decision making -- Renting a residence -- Buying a home -- Buying and owning for a vehicle -- Family decisions -- Introduction to risk management -- Property and liability insurance -- Health and life insurance -- Role of consumers in a free enterprise system -- Consumer protection -- Dispute resolution

While focusing on the student`s role as citizen, student, family member, consumer, and active participant in the business world, this title informs students of their various financial responsibilities. It provides opportunities for self-awareness, expression, and satisfaction in a highly technical and competitive society


English

978-0-538-74277-1


Finance, Personal
Finance, Personal--Study and teaching (Secondary)

332.024 R95m