BMT 1620: Financial Planning and Investments
by Elijah Cooks
This text addresses financial planning concepts, their application and the risk factor in the management of finances.
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- Publisher
- Prince George's Community College
- Subjects
- Business
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
- Who can read
- Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects
Contents
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- Front Matter
- TitlePage
- InfoPage
- Table of Contents
- Licensing
- 1: Personal Financial Planning
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: Individual or “Micro” Factors That Affect Financial Thinking
- 1.3: Systemic or “Macro” Factors That Affect Financial Thinking
- 1.4: The Planning Process
- 1.5: Financial Planning Professionals
- 2: Basic Ideas of Finance
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Income and Expenses
- 2.3: Assets
- 2.4: Debt and Equity
- 2.5: Income and Risk
- 3: Financial Statements
- 3.1: Introduction
- 3.2: Accounting and Financial Statements
- 3.3: Comparing and Analyzing Financial Statements
- 3.4: Accounting Software-An Overview
- 4: Evaluating Choices - Time, Risk, and Value
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: The Time Value of Money
- 4.3: Calculating the Relationship of Time and Value
- 4.4: Valuing a Series of Cash Flows
- 4.5: Using Financial Statements to Evaluate Financial Choices
- 4.6: Evaluating Risk
- 5: Financial Plans- Budgets
- 5.1: Introduction to Budgets
- 5.2: The Budget Process
- 5.3: Creating the Comprehensive Budget
- 5.4: The Cash Budget and Other Specialized Budgets
- 5.5: Budget Variances
- 5.6: Budgets, Financial Statements and Financial Decisions
- 6: Taxes and Tax Planning
- 6.1: Sources of Taxation and Kinds of Taxes
- 6.2: The U.S. Federal Income Tax Process
- 6.3: Record Keeping, Preparation, and Filing
- 6.4: Taxes and Financial Planning
- 7: Financial Management
- 7.1: Your Own Money- Cash
- 7.2: Your Own Money- Savings
- 7.3: Other People's Money- Credit
- 7.4: Other People's Money- An Introduction to Debt
- 8: Consumer Strategies
- 8.1: Consumer Purchases
- 8.2: A Major Purchase- Buying a Car
- 9: Buying a Home
- 9.1: Identify the Product and the Market
- 9.2: Identify the Financing
- 9.3: Purchasing and Owning Your Home
- 10: Personal Risk Management- Insurance
- 10.1: Insuring Your Property
- 10.2: Insuring Your Health
- 10.3: Insuring Your Income
- 11: Personal Risk Management- Retirement and Estate Planning
- 11.1: Retirement Planning- Projecting Needs
- 11.2: Retirement Planning- Ways to Save
- 11.3: Estate Planning
- 12: Investing
- 12.1: Investment and Markets- A Brief Overview
- 12.2: Investment Planning
- 12.3: Measuring Return and Risk
- 12.4: Diversification- Return with Less Risk
- 13: Behavioral Finance and Market Behavior
- 13.1: Investor Behavior
- 13.2: Market Behavior
- 13.3: Extreme Market Behavior
- 13.4: Behavioral Finance and Investment Strategies
- 14: The Practice of Investment
- 14.1: Investment Information
- 14.2: Investing and Trading
- 14.3: Ethics and Regulation
- 14.4: Investing Internationally- Risks and Regulations
- 15: Owning Stocks
- 15.1: Stocks and Stock Markets
- 15.2: Stock Value
- 15.3: Common Measures of Value
- 15.4: Equity Strategies
- 16: Owning Bonds
- 16.1: Bonds and Bond Markets
- 16.2: Bond Value
- 16.3: Bond Strategies
- 17: Investing in Mutual Funds, Commodities, Real Estate, and Collectibles
- 17.1: Mutual Funds
- 17.2: Real Estate Investments
- 17.3: Commodities and Collectibles
- 18: Purchasing Power Parity
- 18.1: Overview of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
- 18.2: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) and PPP
- 18.3: PPP as a Theory of Exchange Rate Determination
- 18.4: Problems and Extensions of PPP
- 18.5: PPP in the Long Run
- 18.6: Overvaluation and Undervaluation
- 18.7: PPP and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 19: National Income and the Balance of Payments Accounts
- 19.1: National Income and Product Accounts
- 19.2: National Income or Product Identity
- 19.3: U.S. National Income Statistics (2007–2008)
- 19.4: Balance of Payments Accounts- Definitions
- 19.5: Recording Transactions on the Balance of Payments
- 19.6: U.S. Balance of Payments Statistics (2008)
- 19.7: The Twin-Deficit Identity
- 19.8: International Investment Position
- 20: Financial Crises- Causes and Consequences
- 20.1: Financial Crisis Taxonomies
- 20.2: Asset Bubbles
- 20.3: Financial Panics
- 20.4: Lender of Last Resort (LLR)
- 20.5: Bailouts and Resolutions
- 20.6: The Crisis of 2007-2009
- 20.7: Suggested Reading
- 21: Interest Rates
- 21.1: The Interest of Interest
- 21.2: Present and Future Value
- 21.3: Compounding Periods
- 21.4: Pricing Debt Instruments
- 21.5: What’s the Yield on That?
- 21.6: Calculating Returns
- 21.7: Inflation and Interest Rates
- 21.8: Suggested Reading
- 22: The Economics of Financial Regulation
- 22.1: Market Failures and Public Choice
- 22.2: The Great Depression as Regulatory Failure
- 22.3: The Savings and Loan Regulatory Debacle
- 22.4: Better but Still Not Good- U.S. Regulatory Reforms
- 22.5: Basel II, Basel III, and Dodd-Frank
- 22.6: Suggested Reading
- 23: Monetary Policy Tools
- 23.1: The Federal Funds Market and Reserves
- 23.2: Open Market Operations and the Discount Window
- 23.3: The Monetary Policy Tools of Other Central Banks
- 23.4: Suggested Reading
- 24: Central Bank Form and Function
- 24.1: America’s Central Banks
- 24.2: The Federal Reserve System’s Structure
- 24.3: Other Important Central Banks
- 24.4: Central Bank Independence
- 24.5: Suggested Reading
- 25: Financial Derivatives
- 25.1: Derivatives and Their Functions
- 25.2: Forwards and Futures
- 25.3: Options and Swaps
- 25.4: Suggested Reading
- Back Matter
- Index
- Glossary
- Detailed Licensing