Personal Finance For Teens

This straightforward guide provides the fundamental information teens need to know about money matters. This second edition of Personal Finance for Teens shows readers the keys to crafting job-winning resumes, creating a successful spending plan, evaluating college financial aid, managing credit scores and avoiding credit card debt, evaluating the cost of car ownership, and starting retirement savings. In this book teens will find the vital personal finance information they need to know as they transition to living away from home.

In this new book, you will learn how to get and manage credit, make and stick to a budget, save for college, determine your needs versus your wants, pay for a car, finance college, manage risk, open a bank account, write a check, balance a checkbook, avoid the pressures of consumerism, and how to avoid financial mistakes. You will also learn about investment options, taxes, checks, debit cards, credit cards, and basic budget tips. This book is filled with suggestions from financial and family counselors, and you will discover creative ways to get a jumpstart on your financial future and use money responsibly. Even if you have had a few missteps along the way, you will be able to learn from your mistakes and get on the path to financial well-being.

Many parents aren’t sure where to begin when it comes to teaching their teens and young adults about finances. Christian Finance for Teens will help, giving important information in a way teens can understand about job searching, budgeting, debt, banking, investing, insurance, taxes, and other areas of finance. Author Cindy Kersey has taught a high school finance class (Christian Finance) for tenth- and twelfth-grade students for several years, “road-testing” her material on real-world teens to amazing results. Inspired to help other young people, she turned her course curriculum into book format so teens and young adults everywhere can easily understand concepts of personal finance. This material will be useful as they begin their lives as adults.

Despite spending enormous amounts of time on core subjects such as math and science, American students are consistently left out when it comes to financial literacy. In the vast majority of the United States, there is virtually no requirement for high school students to acquire skills related to personal finance. This inadequacy has left most students in the dark when it comes to these crucial skills and has consequently jeopardized the financial future of millions. As students transition from primary education to adulthood, these students end up lost and confused with regard to their finances, creating poor habits that can plague them for the rest of their lives. As teenagers who once lacked exposure to financial education themselves, Avaniko Asokkumar, Sai Bommineni, and Rohit Chakka hope to reverse this trend through writing this guide. By breaking down complex financial topics from investing in bonds to planning for retirement in a simple and relatable way, the authors hope to provide a rich and deep understanding of personal finance to all readers. The information present in the novel's six major sections: Financial Planning; Banking, Loaning, and Credit; Investment Basics; Career-Oriented Finance; End Game Finance; and Miscellaneous Finance, will provide a strong baseline of financial education for readers that they can build on going forward. Ultimately, the authors aspire to provide young readers with practical financial knowledge. By internalizing the concepts presented in this novel, teenagers can leave with skills they will utilize for the rest of their lives.

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Publisher Description

A guide to personal finance for teenagers that covers savings, earnings, credit cards, investing, taxes, and other related topics.

The Money Club Workbook allows students to practice and learn important financial topics with step-by-step, interactive worksheets all students will enjoy.

[This book] will help young people develop good financial habits at an early age - habits that will enable them to successfully make, manage, multiply, and protect their hard-earned money. [The author] motivate[s] teens and remind them that their choice is crystal clear: learn now or pay later! [The author talks about]: Credit Card debt; needs vs. wants; multiplying money; insurance essentials; secrets to saving; Internet scams. -Back cover.