Financial Literacy For Young Adults Simplified

Unlock financial security with our enlightening guide! Master the money mindset, create effective budgets, learn about crypto, and how to distinguish bad debt from good debt. Ideal for students, young adults, or anyone seeking to build wealth. Navigate economic challenges and achieve financial independence.

Acknowledgments -- Prologue: a tale of two teens -- Financial [ms1]planning -- Careers -- Business and entrepreneurship -- Savings and banking -- Budgeting and spending -- Credit and debt -- Bankruptcy -- Investments -- Avoiding financial scams -- Insurance -- Taxes -- Government benefits -- Legal issues -- Growing older -- Appendix 1: Website content -- Appendix 2: Take-away tips -- Appendix 3: curriculum planning guide -- Index -- About the author

You know you need to learn more about personal finance in order to make financial decisions, but you just find it too overwhelming, too intimidating, and too time consuming. This book was written for you, giving you the basics in less than an hour, and then directing you to further resources (fischlearning.com/tldr) if you'd like to learn more. It's about 30 pages and should take less than an hour to read, so instead of TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) it will hopefully be JR;DR;KM (Just Right, Did Read, Know More).This book isn't about "getting rich quickly" (not that's there anything wrong with that), but it's about gaining knowledge and building your capacity in order to live a good life. What's a "good life"? I don't know, everyone's definition is different. What's important is that you take the time to define what a good life is for you, and then align your financial decisions with that. The goal of this book is to help you think about your finances in such a way that you have the independence to lead the life you want to live; to give you as much control as possible over your financial situation so that your finances don't prevent you from living the life you want.I say "book" because that's what Amazon calls it, but it's more like a really long blog post. I wrote it because finances and financial decisions are such a huge part of everyone's life that they should take the time to thoroughly educate themselves. Since many folks won't do that, this book is an attempt to quickly give them the basics and hopefully encourage them - and give them the confidence - to learn more.I am not a financial planner. I have taught students mathematics and computer science for over thirty years, but have no formal training in personal finance or investing, and no certifications. I am simply a lifelong learner, constantly curious, and have been interested in personal finance since working in a credit union during high school and college, and continued to be curious and learn more about finance during my career as a public school teacher. Over my years as a teacher, I discovered that not only did my students not know much about personal finance, but neither did my family, friends and colleagues (I often served as a resource for those folks).Partially as a result of that experience, I see the necessity for a book such as this, as I wanted to do my part to try to help others become financially literate. While it would be nice to make a little bit of money from this, that's not really my expectation or my goal. This is a passion project for me. I hope folks find it helpful. If you do read it, it would be helpful if you could leave a review on Amazon and/or email me at [email protected] a "testimonial" for the accompanying website. I would also love constructive feedback at bit.ly/tldrfeedbackSo, about thirty pages. About an hour. Ready to get started? Future you will thank you.

A book that gives students the basic understanding of the financial world

With over 40 years of industry experience, Steve Mayer takes subjects like reading a paycheck, or doing your own taxes and explains them in an easy to read format that young adults can relate to. Personal finance isn't taught in school and students are leaving without the basic fundamentals in how to run their lives from an accounting perspective. The goal with this book is to ensure that teens moving toward adulthood have the basic skills they need to make decision regarding their personal finances. This book is provided free of charge to young adults through donations to The 5 Bucket 4 Shovels Foundation, whose mission it is to fund financial literacy for young adults. Through the sale of our other two books, 5 Buckets, 4 Shovels, a Beach and a Map, and The Toughest Guy I Ever Knew and Other Short Stories, both available through Amazon.com, all profits go directly to the foundation to fund the mission. We also receive donations directly through our relationships with our corporate sponsors. Our hope is that Adulting 101: A Guide to Personal Finance will easily become the go-to reference book for young adults looking for basic information about personal finance. Many of SD Mayer & Associates clients provide this book to their own kids and find it to be very helpful in explaining these basic concepts.

Many parents aren’t sure where to begin when it comes to teaching their teens and young adults about finances. Christian Finance for Teens will help, giving important information in a way teens can understand about job searching, budgeting, debt, banking, investing, insurance, taxes, and other areas of finance. Author Cindy Kersey has taught a high school finance class (Christian Finance) for tenth- and twelfth-grade students for several years, “road-testing” her material on real-world teens to amazing results. Inspired to help other young people, she turned her course curriculum into book format so teens and young adults everywhere can easily understand concepts of personal finance. This material will be useful as they begin their lives as adults.

Get control of your finances - and your future! Do you feel like you'll never pay off your student loans? Worried about your mounting credit card debt? Wondering when you'll ever make enough money to stop living paycheck to paycheck? You're not alone - millions of young Americans are finding it hard to save for the future and still pay today's bills on time. But with The Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s Book, 3rd Edition, you'll learn how to be financially independent by: Creating a workable budget Minimizing credit card and student loan debt Investing money wisely Building an emergency fund You'll also learn how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can help you navigate the often-confusing world of financial service products. With this easy-to-use guide, you'll learn how to manage, save, and invest wisely - starting today!

With over 40 years of industry experience, Steve Mayer takes subjects like reading a paycheck, or doing your own taxes and explains them in an easy to read format that young adults can relate to. Personal finance isn't taught in school and students are leaving without the basic fundamentals in how to run their lives from an accounting perspective. The goal with this book is to ensure that teens moving toward adulthood have the basic skills they need to make decision regarding their personal finances. This book is provided free of charge to young adults through donations to The 5 Bucket 4 Shovels Foundation, whose mission it is to fund financial literacy for young adults. Through the sale of our other two books, 5 Buckets, 4 Shovels, a Beach and a Map, and The Toughest Guy I Ever Knew and Other Short Stories, both available through Amazon.com, all profits go directly to the foundation to fund the mission. We also receive donations directly through our relationships with our corporate sponsors. Our hope is that Adulting 101: A Guide to Personal Finance will easily become the go-to reference book for young adults looking for basic information about personal finance. Many of SD Mayer & Associates clients provide this book to their own kids and find it to be very helpful in explaining these basic concepts.