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Participation Prompt Week 1, Day 5 (Saturday)
1. What is one method for developing personal financial goals? What could stand in your way
of reaching these goals?
Participation Prompt Week 2, Day 5 (Saturday)
1. How are budgets created and used? What success have you had with creating and using a
personal budget?
Participation Prompt Week 3, Day 5 (Saturday)
1. Imagine you have credit-card debt with an interest rate of 18% and your student loan interest
rate is 6%. Which debt would you make your priority to pay off? Why? What steps would you
take to keep this debt as your priority for paying off?
Participation Prompt Week 4, Day 5 (Saturday)
1. Discuss how education plays a critical role in financial success. List at least two financial
benefits of being college educated. How might a college education affect your long-term
financial plan? Consider future income and loan repayment in your response.
Participation Prompt Week 5, Day 5 (Saturday)
1. What is one reason for investment planning? What is one strategy that you learned about
investment planning? How do you think this strategy will help you have your ideal
retirement?
Wiley
Question 6
You are calculating your potential return on your stock investments. If you calculate different possible
returns based on assuming a variety of interest rates and stock market conditions, this is an example
of
reasonable assumptions.
sensitivity analysis.
marginal analysis.
opportunity cost.
Question 13
You decide to take a part-time job to help with your college expenses. The hours available for study
are thus reduced. The reduction in study hours would be your:
opportunity cost.
variable cost.
direct cost.
fixed cost.
Question 14
You can afford to make monthly payments of a certain amount for three years, and you want to know
how much you can borrow based on this payment amount. Which type of time value of money
calculation should be used to solve this problem?
future value of a lump sum
present value of a lump sum
present value of an annuity
future value of an annuity
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