EMGT 175 - Personal Finance
- Credit Hours: 4R-0L-4C
- Term Available: -
- Graduate Studies Eligible: No
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: None
The purpose of this course is to provide knowledge on personal finance so that students can learn how to make quality financial decisions that enable them to manage their money daily and to build wealth over a lifetime. Topical areas include saving, spending, paying taxes, and investing, with consideration of insurance to mitigate risk. This course explores conventional and online banking to establish credit and to use debt to achieve goals. Considerable attention is paid to budgeting, with an emphasis on saving for short term needs and longer-term retirement goals through investments in stocks and bonds.