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Learn one of life’s most important lessons – making sound financial decisions! In this course, you will practice money management skills using real-life scenarios. This course teaches the skills and knowledge you need to become a wise consumer, saver, investor, user of credit, and planner. Topics include financial attitudes and behaviors, income and taxes, budgeting, buying goods and services, financial accounts, credit and loans, financial investing, and insuring and planning. Build your financial literacy skills to excel in today’s global workforce and society. And if you are still asking yourself, when will I ever use this information? The answer is every day for the rest of your adult life. Personal Finance and Money Management is a half-credit (0.5) elective and offers an option for students to receive honors credit.
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Students will demonstrate an understanding of financial choices by summarizing factors influencing financial decisions, explaining factors impacting income, and creating a budget.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the risks and rewards of investing by describing options to grow money, explaining the relationship between taking risks and growing money, summarizing features of insurance, and analyzing identity theft.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of spending and saving money by describing factors affecting consumer decisions, describing common contracts, explaining types of financial accounts, and analyzing the relationship between inflation and interest rates.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the use of credit by comparing types of credit, describing types of loans, explaining the influence of credit scores, and explaining the management of debt.