MIDTERMS Flashcards
Three Categories of Finance
Public Finance
Corporate Finance
Personal Finance
- Behavioral Finance
a term that covers managing your money as well as saving and investing. It encompasses budgeting, banking, insurance, mortgages, investments, retirement, tax, and estate planning.
Personal Finance
5 MAIN AREAS OF PERSONAL FINANCE
Earning Income
Spending
Saving
Investing
Protection
It refers to a source of cash inflow that an individual receives and uses to support themselves and their family.
Earning Income
It refers to all types of expenses an individual incurs related to buying goods and services or anything that is consumable.
Spending
It refers to excess cash that is retained for future investing or spending.
Saving
It relates to the purchase of assets that are expected to generate a rate of return, with the hope that overtime the individual will receive back more money than they originally invested.
Investing
It refers to a wide range of products that can be used to guard against an unforeseen and adverse event.
Protection
Personal finance enables individuals to build a safety net against unexpected events like medical emergencies, job loss, or other unforeseen circumstances.
Financial Security
These targets can help you find effective ways to spend and save money, both at work and in your personal life. In the long term, these aspirations can help you improve your lifestyle, reduce debt, and plan for a comfortable retirement. It can be short-, medium-, or long-term goals.
Financial Goals
First observed around 10,000 – 3000 BCE. It is the oldest form of payment for the exchange of goods and services. The Exchange of Goods and Services is executed based on perceived equal value.
The barter observes the ‘IOU’ concept.
Barter System
6 CHARACTERISTICS OF MONEY
Must have value
Must be durable
Must be portable
Must be uniform
Must be limited
Must be divisible
5 KEY FUNCTION OF MONEY
Store of Value
Item of Worth
Means of Exchange
Unit of Account
Standard of Deferred Payment
Money must not be perishable for people to store it as their wealth in the future and people should be able to use it anytime, anywhere.
Store of Value
Money contains an intrinsic value, such as that of a precious metal that was used to make a coin. Hence, it will act as a guarantee of acceptance to pay for transactions.
Item of Worth
Money must be freely and widely used for exchange of goods and services, and there must be stability to the money being used.It should easily be divisible and there are sufficient denominations.
Means of Exchange
Money must be used to record wealth possessed, traded, or spent personally or nationally. must only be issued and recognized by one authorized government body, otherwise, trust in its value would disappear.
Unit of Account
Money must be widely accepted to value a debt thereby allowing good and services to be acquired now and paid for in the future.
Standard of Deferred Payment
2 TYPES OF STORE VALUE
INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC VALUE
has an equivalent backup of Gold, used in the present.
Intrinsic