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Billingsley/Gitman/Joehnk's PFIN, 8th Edition, uses practical and relatable examples of personal financial planning strategies, relating to students’ day-to-day lives. These include features like “Do It Now,” “Financial Impact of Personal Choices,” “Financial Planning Tips,” “Behavior Matters” and “Planning Over a Lifetime.” This edition presents students with essential decision-making frameworks and up-to-date information on key topics, including buying a home or car, setting up and maintaining a budget, handling student loans, insuring your life, health and property, investing to meet goals like retirement and doing your taxes. The latest tax information and financial market rates and data further strengthen this edition, while MindTap the online learning platform enhances students' financial understanding.
- The “Working with a Financial Advisor,” feature is strategically integrated across the book. This helps to target the next steps in applying personal financial planning to students’ lives going forward. A new appendix on “Using Spreadsheets” has also been added. This illustrates how financial planning concepts may be applied using the data in the book and the personal financial data of students.
- This edition has numerous features, relating personal finance to students’ day-to-day lives. These include “You Can Do It Now” on personal financial actions students can take now, “Financial Impact of Personal Choices” illustrating financial effects of key personal decisions and “Financial Planning Tips.” It presents students with decision-making frameworks and up-to-date information on key topics that include buying a home or car, setting up and maintaining a budget, handling student loans, insuring your life, health and property, investing to meet goals like retirement and doing your taxes.
- This edition provides effective emphasis on decision-making frameworks and relevance to students’ day-to-day lives.
- Solutions offer an engaging print textbook, tear-out review cards and an interactive online learning solution, all delivered and influenced by a deep understanding of student’s workflow and learning styles.
- The “Behavior Matters” feature explores how our psychology affects our financial planning decisions for better or worse and how to take it into account to consistently make better decisions.
- This edition allows students to see a road map of their financial futures. The “Planning Over a Lifetime" feature at the end of each chapter shows how the given financial tools allow them to best adapt to changes over a lifetime.
- PFIN, 8e allows students to see a road map of their financial futures. The “Planning Over a Lifetime" feature at the end of each chapter shows how the given financial tools allow them to best adapt to changes over a lifetime.
- Shorter, comprehensive chapters in a modern design present content in a more engaging and accessible format that increases the number of students who read the chapter without minimizing coverage for your course.
1. Understanding the Financial Process.
2. Using Financial Statements and Budgets.
3. Preparing Your Taxes.
Part II: MANAGING BASIC ASSETS.
4. Managing Your Cash and Savings.
5. Making Automobile and Housing Decisions.
Part III: MANAGING CREDIT.
6. Using Credit.
7. Using Consumer Loans.
Part IV: MANAGING INSURANCE NEEDS.
8. Insuring Your Life.
9. Insuring Your Health.
10. Protecting Your Property.
Part V: MANAGING INVESTMENTS.
11. Investment Planning.
12. Investing in Stocks and Bonds.
13. Investing in Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Real Estate.
Part VI: RETIREMENT AND ESTATE PLANNING.
14. Planning for Retirement.
15. Preserving Your Estate.
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This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.
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- ISBN-10: 0357988051
- ISBN-13: 9780357988053
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- ISBN-10: 0357988124
- ISBN-13: 9780357988121
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Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.
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