Summary

Students often encounter difficulty making a financial plan and sticking with it. Decision Making and Budgeting teaches them how to discover their financial goals and how to make a budget in order to best reach those goals. This helpful new volume features a wide assortment of useful features to get students excited about planning their financial future, including full-color photographs, an index, glossary, sidebars, and quizzes.

Chapters include:

• Making Decisions
• Setting Goals
• Budgeting
• Insurance
• Consumer Decisions
• Consumer Rights and Avoiding Scams.

Specifications

Full-color photographs and illustrations. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Sidebars.

About the Author(s)

Julia A. Heath received a Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina and currently teaches economics at the University of Cincinnati. She is the director of the Economics Center for Education and Research at the university and has won several teaching awards, including the Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year Award; the economics discipline's highest award, the Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award; and the Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Financial Literacy.