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Personal Finance: Turning Money into Wealth, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (July 6, 2022) © 2023

  • Arthur J. Keown Virginia Polytechnic Instit. and State University
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Title overview

Personal Finance: Turning Money into Wealth empowers you to successfully make and carry out a plan for your financial future. By introducing the 10 fundamental principles of personal finance in a way that leaves a lasting impression, this text provides you with lifelong tools that will help you effectively cope with an ever-changing financial environment.

The 9th Edition reflects recent changes in the world of personal finance. This includes tax changes, new laws, the ever-changing investments landscape, the explosion of student loans, and credit card challenges facing graduating students.

Table of contents

PART I: FINANCIAL PLANNING

  1. The Personal Financial Planning Process
  2. Measuring Your Financial Health and Making a Plan
  3. Understanding and Appreciating the Time Value of Money
  4. Tax Planning and Strategies

PART II: MANAGING YOUR MONEY

  1. Cash or Liquid Asset Management
  2. Using Credit Cards: The Role of Open Credit
  3. Student and Consumer Loans: The Role of Planned Borrowing
  4. The Home and Automobile Decision

PART III: PROTECTING YOURSELF WITH INSURANCE

  1. Life and Health Insurance
  2. Property and Liability Insurance

PART IV: MANAGING YOUR INVESTMENTS

  1. Investment Basics
  2. Investing in Stocks
  3. Investing in Bonds and Other Alternatives
  4. Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds: An Easy Way to Diversify

PART V: LIFE CYCLE ISSUES

  1. Retirement Planning
  2. Estate Planning: Saving Your Heirs Money and Headaches
  3. Financial Life Events: Fitting the Pieces Together

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