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BMT 1620: Financial Planning and Investments
This text addresses financial planning concepts, their application and the risk factor in the management of finances.
- Author
- Elijah Cooks
- Publisher
- Prince George's Community College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Business Administration
Contents· 141 sections
- 01: Personal Financial Planning
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: Individual or Micro Factors That Affect Financial Thinking
- 1.03: Systemic or Macro Factors That Affect Financial Thinking
- 1.04: The Planning Process
- 1.05: Financial Planning Professionals
- 02: Basic Ideas of Finance
- 2.01: Introduction
- 2.02: Income and Expenses
- 2.03: Assets
- 2.04: Debt and Equity
- 2.05: Income and Risk
- 03: Financial Statements
- 3.01: Introduction
- 3.02: Accounting and Financial Statements
- 3.03: Comparing and Analyzing Financial Statements
- 3.04: Accounting Software-An Overview
- 04: Evaluating Choices - Time Risk and Value
- 4.01: Introduction
- 4.02: The Time Value of Money
- 4.03: Calculating the Relationship of Time and Value
- 4.04: Valuing a Series of Cash Flows
- 4.05: Using Financial Statements to Evaluate Financial Choices
- 4.06: Evaluating Risk
- 05: Financial Plans- Budgets
- 5.01: Introduction to Budgets
- 5.02: The Budget Process
- 5.03: Creating the Comprehensive Budget
- 5.04: The Cash Budget and Other Specialized Budgets
- 5.05: Budget Variances
- 5.06: Budgets Financial Statements and Financial Decisions
- 06: Taxes and Tax Planning
- 6.01: Sources of Taxation and Kinds of Taxes
- 6.02: The U.S. Federal Income Tax Process
- 6.03: Record Keeping Preparation and Filing
- 6.04: Taxes and Financial Planning
- 07: Financial Management
- 7.01: Your Own Money- Cash
- 7.02: Your Own Money- Savings
- 7.03: Other People's Money- Credit
- 7.04: Other People's Money- An Introduction to Debt
- 08: Consumer Strategies
- 8.01: Consumer Purchases
- 8.02: A Major Purchase- Buying a Car
- 09: Buying a Home
- 9.01: Identify the Product and the Market
- 9.02: Identify the Financing
- 9.03: Purchasing and Owning Your Home
- 10: Personal Risk Management- Insurance
- 10.01: Insuring Your Property
- 10.02: Insuring Your Health
- 10.03: Insuring Your Income
- 11: Personal Risk Management- Retirement and Estate Planning
- 11.01: Retirement Planning- Projecting Needs
- 11.02: Retirement Planning- Ways to Save
- 11.03: Estate Planning
- 12: Investing
- 12.01: Investment and Markets- A Brief Overview
- 12.02: Investment Planning
- 12.03: Measuring Return and Risk
- 12.04: Diversification- Return with Less Risk
- 13: Behavioral Finance and Market Behavior
- 13.01: Investor Behavior
- 13.02: Market Behavior
- 13.03: Extreme Market Behavior
- 13.04: Behavioral Finance and Investment Strategies
- 14: The Practice of Investment
- 14.01: Investment Information
- 14.02: Investing and Trading
- 14.03: Ethics and Regulation
- 14.04: Investing Internationally- Risks and Regulations
- 15: Owning Stocks
- 15.01: Stocks and Stock Markets
- 15.02: Stock Value
- 15.03: Common Measures of Value
- 15.04: Equity Strategies
- 16: Owning Bonds
- 16.01: Bonds and Bond Markets
- 16.02: Bond Value
- 16.03: Bond Strategies
- 17: Investing in Mutual Funds Commodities Real Estate and Collectibles
- 17.01: Mutual Funds
- 17.02: Real Estate Investments
- 17.03: Commodities and Collectibles
- 18: Purchasing Power Parity
- 18.01: Overview of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
- 18.02: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) and PPP
- 18.03: PPP as a Theory of Exchange Rate Determination
- 18.04: Problems and Extensions of PPP
- 18.05: PPP in the Long Run
- 18.06: Overvaluation and Undervaluation
- 18.07: PPP and Cross-Country Comparisons
- 19: National Income and the Balance of Payments Accounts
- 19.01: National Income and Product Accounts
- 19.02: National Income or Product Identity
- 19.03: U.S. National Income Statistics (20072008)
- 19.04: Balance of Payments Accounts- Definitions
- 19.05: Recording Transactions on the Balance of Payments
- 19.06: U.S. Balance of Payments Statistics (2008)
- 19.07: The Twin-Deficit Identity
- 19.08: International Investment Position
- 20: Financial Crises- Causes and Consequences
- 20.01: Financial Crisis Taxonomies
- 20.02: Asset Bubbles
- 20.03: Financial Panics
- 20.04: Lender of Last Resort (LLR)
- 20.05: Bailouts and Resolutions
- 20.06: The Crisis of 2007-2009
- 20.07: Suggested Reading
- 21: Interest Rates
- 21.01: The Interest of Interest
- 21.02: Present and Future Value
- 21.03: Compounding Periods
- 21.04: Pricing Debt Instruments
- 21.05: Whats the Yield on That
- 21.06: Calculating Returns
- 21.07: Inflation and Interest Rates
- 21.08: Suggested Reading
- 22: The Economics of Financial Regulation
- 22.01: Market Failures and Public Choice
- 22.02: The Great Depression as Regulatory Failure
- 22.03: The Savings and Loan Regulatory Debacle
- 22.04: Better but Still Not Good- U.S. Regulatory Reforms
- 22.05: Basel II Basel III and Dodd-Frank
- 22.06: Suggested Reading
- 23: Monetary Policy Tools
- 23.01: The Federal Funds Market and Reserves
- 23.02: Open Market Operations and the Discount Window
- 23.03: The Monetary Policy Tools of Other Central Banks
- 23.04: Suggested Reading
- 24: Central Bank Form and Function
- 24.01: Americas Central Banks
- 24.02: The Federal Reserve Systems Structure
- 24.03: Other Important Central Banks
- 24.04: Central Bank Independence
- 24.05: Suggested Reading
- 25: Financial Derivatives
- 25.01: Derivatives and Their Functions
- 25.02: Forwards and Futures
- 25.03: Options and Swaps
- 25.04: Suggested Reading