A -Z Money matters guide

Standard 2 - Personal and financial goals can be achieved by applying economic concepts and principles to personal financial planning, budgeting, spending, saving, investing,borrowing, and insuring decisions.

Benchmark - Define broad economic goals and desribe the trade-off that exist between them; evaluate how different economic systems achieve these goals in theory and in practice.

Benchmark - 9.2.2.2.1 - 9.2.3.4.3

Here is a list of terms that you will need to; write the definition, find a real world example, and relate it to your life now or life after school.

A: Assets are things that increase in value making you more money over time.  Mutual funds, savings accounts, and (normally) homes are assets.  Each paycheck some of my money goes to my savings account until I have enough to buy a house.

 

    

the best way to accomplish this task is to create a powerpoint that includes the definitionof the term, an image of the term, and how the term applies to you.  Each term can be a page, plus I already did the first one for you.  When you are finished submit your powerpoint via links.

 Here are the TERMS:

B: Budgets    C: Coupons    D: Deductions     E: Email blasts       F: FICO

G: Gasoline prices     H: Home ownership     I: Interest rates     J: Job search     K. as in 401(K)    

L: : Low-cost-index mutual funds     M: Money     N: Nonessentials     O: Overcharges

P.  Positive cash flow     Q: Quotes     R: Reward points     S: Student loans     T: Taxes    

U:  Unemployment     V:Visa    Choose one of your own words for either W,X,Y, or Z.   tongueout