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: 

1. Getting an Apartment & Living on your Own - Life After High School worksheet, Finance Evaluation Quiz
2. Banking Basics
3. Paycheck-to-Paycheck vs Creating a Spending Plan or Budget
4. Getting your first job; Taxes and the IRS
   
5. Run your own Business, Entrepreneurs - Contracts, Commissions & Billable Hours
   
6. Checking & Overdrafts
7. Savings, Simple vs Compound interest, CDs, Money Market Accounts,
   
8. What is Credit PPT
9. Career Balance, Lifestyle Affordability
   
10. HELOCs & Planning an Emergency Plan
11. Retirement [ spreadsheet ] & Specialties (401(k), 403b/457, Roth IRAs, & Defined Benefit Plans, HSAs etc...)
12. The Stock Market Game
13. 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