Description
Learn specific skills that will help you now and prepare you to live within your community. Workbooks are designed to be used with the online courses (purchased separately) and can be used in a classroom or independently.
Income
- Vocabulary of Earning Money
- Calculating Wages
- Tips and Equivalent Hourly Pay
- Commission
- Withholding’s
- Form W-4
- Understanding the Paycheck Stub
- Direct Deposits
Bills
- The Language of Home Buying
- Nine Steps to Buying a Home
- Understanding Home Loans
- Language of Renting
- Rental Types, Sizes, and Costs
- Utilities
- Choosing a Utility Company
- Language of Car Buying
- Negotiating the Best Price
- Reducing the Grocery Bill
Budgeting
- Components of a Budget
- Using a Spreadsheet
- Graphing a Budget
Banking and Savings
- Banks vs. Credit Unions
- Types of accounts
- Fees
- Bank Statements
- Check Registers
- Balancing Your Account
Investing and Retirement
- Making Sense of Investing
- The Language of Stocks
- Stocks
- Bonds
- Mutual Funds
- The Money Market
- 401K and Other Retirement Accounts
