Chapter 1: Personal Financial Overview - Test Review Flashcards

1
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Financial Planning

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Helps you reach important goals and financial security over your lifetime

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2
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Helps you reach important goals and financial security over your lifetime

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Financial Planning

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3
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The ability to meet essential needs without taking on more debt than you can repay

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Financial Security

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4
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Possessing and applying financial knowledge to make informed and responsible financial choices

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Financial Literacy

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5
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Using your resources to achieve predetermined objectives

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Management

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6
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Tangible items that can be purchased

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Goods

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7
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Intangible activities that another person usually performs for a fee

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Services

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8
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Things that are considered necessities

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Needs

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9
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Things you would like but they are not essential

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Wants

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10
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Your beliefs about what is important and desirable

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Values

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11
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The overall structure of values and goals that guides your behavior

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Value System

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12
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The moral principles or beliefs that direct a person’s behavior

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Ethics

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13
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An objective you want to attain

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Goal

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14
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A value or goal that is given more importance than other values and goals

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Priority

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15
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An established measure of quality, value, or quantity

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Standard

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16
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Tools you can use to reach goals

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Resources

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17
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Weighing the costs against the benefits of an action, purchase or financial decision

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Cost-benefit analysis

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18
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The change in total benefit of using one additional unit

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Marginal benefit

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19
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The change in total cost of using one more unit

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Marginal cost

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20
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The choice you give up when you make one choice over another

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Trade-off

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21
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The value of the option you gave up

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Opportunity cost

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22
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A process of choosing a course of action after evaluating information and the costs and benefits of alternative actions

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Systematic decision-making

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23
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The state of the economy at a given time

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Economic conditions

24
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Period of slow or no economic growth

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Recession

25
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Period of rising prices

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Inflation

26
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The statistical characteristics of the population

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Demographics

27
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The beliefs, behaviors, and other characteristics common among members of a group or society

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Culture

28
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The application of science and research to human life and environment

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Technology

29
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Refers to worldwide markets, links and communications

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Globalization

30
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Examples of needs

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Food, clothing, shelter

31
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Be able to give examples of unethical behavior

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1 example: Lying to your boss about why you were out sick

32
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Be able to give examples of To Be goals

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Example: To be a teacher, to be happy

33
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Be able to give examples of To Do goals

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Examples: To go to a concert, to exercise everyday

34
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Be able to give examples to To Have goals

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Examples: To have the latest iphone, to have lots of money

35
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The marginal benefit of using each additional unit of something tends to decrease as the quantity used

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Increases

36
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Be able to identify examples of a trade-off

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Example: If you buy a new cell phone, the trade-off is the other ways you could have used that money

37
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Identify the 5 steps of the systematic decision-making process

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  1. Define the decision to be made
38
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What are the 3 parts of the management process

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  1. Planning
39
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During inflation prices go up while the value of the dollar

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goes down

40
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What are examples of (demographic) vital statistics

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births, deaths, marriages

41
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What are examples of (demographic) social statistics

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age, sex, race, geographic distributions and growth rates

42
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What are examples of (demographic) social -economic statistics

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education levels, income levels, employment, religion

43
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What are ways that outsourcing affects the economy

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lower incomes for workers, loss of jobs for workers

44
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Examples of government entitlements are:

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Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security

45
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Keeps you focused on the final goal

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Determination

46
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Helps you adjust to new and unexpected situations

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Flexibility

47
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Financial security is the ability to purchase everything you

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Need

48
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Goals are closely related to

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Values

49
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You should be able to _____________ progress toward achieving a goal

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Measure

50
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Your possessions can be ___________ that help you achieve a goal

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resources

51
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The panning phase of management involves:

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  1. identifying goals
52
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____________ can be touched, used, and purchases

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Goods

53
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Long term goals may take

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3 or more years

54
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Medium term goals may take

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1 - 3 years

55
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Short terms goals may take

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under 1 year

56
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During a recession, consumers tend to spend ___________ money

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less