Foundations in Personal Finance Elective

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The goal of this course is to provide students with a foundation for how to think about personal finance. This course provides a practical approach to managing one’s personal finances that includes financial record keeping, personal federal income tax, major consumer purchases, financing, investment fundamentals and other financial topics of interest. Students will take a look at the millionaire culture in America to begin to understand what it means to be rich and how it is possible perceptions created by pop culture do not truly match up with how wealthy families live.