Accounting & Financial Literacy
If you live modestly, you can live a comfortable lifestyle!
Syllabus
Some of the project concepts we will cover in this class include:
- Getting an Apartment & Living on your Own - Life After High School worksheet
- Banking Basics,
- Paycheck-to-Paycheck vs Creating a Spending Plan or Budget
- Getting your first job; Taxes and the IRS
- Run your own Business, Entrepreneurs - Contracts, Commissions & Billable Hours
- Checking & Overdrafts
- Savings, CDs, Money Market Accounts, Specialties (HSA & Roth IRAs), etc
- What is Credit PPT
- Career Balance, Retirement & your lifestyle
- HELOCs & Planning an Emergency Plan
- Stocks, Savings, Simple vs Compound interest
- The Stock Market Game
- Technical Skills Resume
Government Resources: DSHS, Umemployment Insurance,
Students who enjoy Finance & Accounting should also consider signing up for further classes in:
- Financial Literacy
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software
- How to run Bookkeeping Quickbooks software
- MySQL database management
- Fiscal Analysis & Banking
HS Competitions: DECA Business & Finance, FBLA Business & Finance challenge