Financial Wisdom: Personal Finance and Career Skills to Guide Teens and Young Adults on Their Journey to Success and Happiness - Softcover

Forsyth Ph.D., Joetta

9780983468608: Financial Wisdom: Personal Finance and Career Skills to Guide Teens and Young Adults on Their Journey to Success and Happiness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983468605 ISBN 13: 9780983468608

Publisher: Financial Wisdom Preparatory Institute, LLC, 2011

This Unique Textbook Trains High-Achieving Teens and Young Adults in Personal Finance and Career Skills at a
Very Sophisticated Level

The author is a Harvard Ph.D./Harvard Business School graduate, and professor of finance at Pepperdine University.

This textbook provides high-achieving teens and young adults the tools to:

Have sophisticated conversations with financial advisors.
Understand most loans as well as any consumer loan officer.
Do detailed financial planning and forecasting in Excel.
Know how to build wealth for retirement.
Become wise at an early age about spending.
Anticipate financial risks and protect themselves from financial pressures, reducing the likelihood of divorce.
Start their career off on the right foot when they graduate from college.

Homeschoolers will find this textbook ideal for fostering learning between parent and child

Topics include:

The Financial Environment
Tax Codes
Personal Financial Statements
Managing Cash/Budgeting
Interest and Loans
Retirement
Financing College
Financial Forecasting in Excel
Spending Money
Career Skills
Borrowing/Risk
Credit Scores
Financial Distress
Identity Theft
Managing the Public Dissemination of Personal Information

Parents will want to use this book as a powerful personal finance reference.
The chapters on financing college, mortgages, and retirement are especially helpful.

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About the Author:

Dr. Joetta Forsyth received her Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard with concentrations in finance and industrial organization. Her Ph.D. was awarded through a joint program with the Harvard Business School and Economics Department. She has a B.A. and M.A in Economics from the University of Chicago. In addition to years of experience in business, Dr. Forsyth was a finance professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California before joining the faculty at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business and Management as a finance professor.

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