Multi-Media Learning:
Personal Finance, third edition, by Jeff Madura is a multi-media package for learning to manage personal finances. Personal Finance includes a comprehensive book, software, and online resources to learn about personal finance management. Personal Finance is a text used at many respected colleges, but is also an interesting and effective self-directed study guide when combined with the software and online resources included with the book.
General Personal Finance Planning:
Learn about general personal financial planning principles such as what a financial plan is, what personal financial statements look like and how to use them, and how to use time value concepts such as compound interest to reach savings goals, and how to handle tax planning.
Liquidity and Financial Assets:
Find out about banking and interest rates, how to use savings in your personal finance plan, which loans and mortgages will work for your financial goals, general money management and how to manage credit effectively
Using Personal Insurance:
Learn how to use personal insurance to protect your financial well-being. Find out when insurance is necessary and when it is not and learn the specifics of auto insurance, homeowner's insurance, health insurance, disability insurance and Medicare. Learn about the variety of life insurance policies being marketed and how to choose life insurance to protect your assets without becoming over-insured.
Investing and Investments:
Learn when investing is appropriate, when it is not, and how to invest to enhance your personal finances. Topics covered include investing fundamentals, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, stock analysis and how to use asset allocation at different life stages.
Retirement and Estate Planning:
Learn what presonal finance planning you need to do now and in years to come to prepare for retirement and plan your estate to protect your assets.
Online Personal Finance Resources:
Each chapter in Personal Finance is complemented by an online study guide, financial planning exercises and quizzes to ensure you can apply what you learn. Online resources include an impressive number of web links which are kept up-to-date so you learn the most recent information on each personal finance topic. View Right on the Money™ video clips, read Financial Planning Online resources, to use mini-cases to enhance learning and to download the Financial Planning Software.
Personal Finance Software Resources:
Download Write Down the Money™ to use with Excel, Open Office or any spreadsheet that opens Excel (.XLS) files. Write Down the Money™ is an online daily budget diary spreadsheet to enter and track your expenses. Using this budget diary will reveal patterns in your spending, will help you to establish amounts for your budget categories and will show you where you could cut back on spending to reach your personal finance goals.
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