Personal
Finance
S E C O N D E D I T I O N
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Personal
Finance
S E C O N D E D I T I O N
Jeff Madura
Florida Atlantic University
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BRIEF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Overview of a Financial Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PART 1 TOOLS FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 2 Planning with Personal Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 3 Applying Time Value Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 4 Using Tax Concepts for Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
PART 2 MANAGING YOUR LIQUIDITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Chapter 5 Banking and Interest Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Chapter 6 Managing Your Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Chapter 7 Managing Your Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
PART 3 PERSONAL FINANCING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Chapter 8 Personal Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Chapter 9 Purchasing and Financing a Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
PART 4 PROTECTING YOUR WEALTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Chapter 10 Auto and Homeowner’s Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Chapter 11 Health and Disability Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Chapter 12 Life Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
PART 5 PERSONAL INVESTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Chapter 13 Investing Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Chapter 14 Stock Analysis and Valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Chapter 15 Investing in Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Chapter 16 Investing in Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Chapter 17 Investing in Mutual Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Chapter 18 Asset Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
PART 6 RETIREMENT AND ESTATE PLANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Chapter 19 Retirement Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Chapter 20 Estate Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
PART 7 SYNTHESIS OF FINANCIAL PLANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
Chapter 21 Integrating the Components of a Financial Plan . . . . . . . . . . 585
Appendix A: Financial Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Appendix B: Solutions to In-Text Study Guide Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
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Chapter 1 Overview of a Financial Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
HOW YOU BENEFIT FROM AN UNDERSTANDING
OF PERSONAL FINANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
MAKE YOUR OWN FINANCIAL DECISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
JUDGE THE ADVICE OF FINANCIAL ADVISERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
BECOME A FINANCIAL ADVISER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
COMPONENTS OF A FINANCIAL PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A PLAN FOR YOUR BUDGETING AND TAX PLANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A PLAN TO MANAGE YOUR LIQUIDITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A PLAN FOR YOUR FINANCING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A PLAN FOR PROTECTING YOUR ASSETS AND INCOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A PLAN FOR YOUR INVESTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A PLAN FOR YOUR RETIREMENT AND ESTATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
HOW THE TEXT ORGANIZATION RELATES TO THE FINANCIAL PLAN’S COMPONENTS . . . . . 7
DEVELOPING THE FINANCIAL PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
STEP 1. ESTABLISH YOUR FINANCIAL GOALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
STEP 2. CONSIDER YOUR CURRENT FINANCIAL POSITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
STEP 3. IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE ALTERNATIVE PLANS THAT
COULD ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
STEP 4. SELECT AND IMPLEMENT THE BEST PLAN FOR ACHIEVING
YOUR GOALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
FOCUS ON ETHICS: PERSONAL FINANCIAL ADVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.1 Financial Planning Online: Financial Planning Tools for You . . . . 15
STEP 5. EVALUATE YOUR FINANCIAL PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
STEP 6. REVISE YOUR FINANCIAL PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SUMMARY ................. .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
INTEGRATING THE KEY CONCEPTS . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
REVIEW QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
FINANCIAL PLANNING PROBLEMS . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
FINANCIAL PLANNING ONLINE EXERCISES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Building Your Own Financial Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Sampsons—A Continuing Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
IN-TEXT STUDY GUIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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