Personal Finance, 12th Edition

Details : 

Author : Jack R. Kapoor, Les R. Dlabay, Robert J. Hughes , Melissa M. Hart
Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; Twelfth edition 
Publication date : 1 July 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 696 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9389957400
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9789389957402
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1050 g 

About the Book 

Personal Finance is a well-established and authoritative text in the subject area. This 12th edition of the book provides extensive coverage of career planning, money management, taxes, consumer credit, housing, legal protection, insurance, investments, retirement planning, and estate planning. The objective of the book is to teach the students the fundamentals of financial planning and to build a foundation of long-term financial security. It deals with many financial planning tools to help the students identify and evaluate choices as well as understand the consequences of decisions in terms of opportunity costs.Salient Features:• Updated Topics: The book gives the latest information available on important topics such as taxes, college loans, health care, and investments.• My Life Feature: Chapter openers introduce the My Life feature which actively involves the students in the chapter material by relating it to their lives and explaining not only what they’ll learn in the chapter, but also why it’s important.• Daily Spending Diary: The end of each chapter includes a Daily Spending Diary exercise that asks students to consider how they can change their daily spending habits to improve their overall personal finance.• Smart Money Minute: There are “Smart Money Minute” Boxes in the chapters that contain the latest facts

About the Author 

Jack Kapoor is a professor of business and economics in the Business and Technology Division of the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he has taught business and economics since 1969. Professor Kapoor was awarded the Business and Technology Division’s Outstanding Professor Award for 1999–2000. He served as an assistant national bank examiner for the U.S. Treasury Department and has been an international trade consultant to Bolting Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Mumbai, India. Teaching about the “Forgotten Majority” (the more than 3 billion people living on $2 or less a day) is a priority of Les Dlabay, professor of business at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. He believes our society can improve global business development through volunteer time, knowledge sharing, and financial donations. In addition to writing several textbooks, Dr. Dlabay teaches accounting and various international business courses. Dr. Bob Hughes has taught personal finance, introduction to business, business math, small business management, small business finance, and accounting since 1972. He also served as a content consultant for two popular national television series, It’s Strictly Business and Dollars & Sense: Personal Finance for the 21st Century, and is the lead author for a business math project utilizing computer-assisted instruction funded by the ALEKS Corporation. Melissa Hart is a permanent lecturer in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. She was inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Teachers and nominated for the Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology. She teaches courses in personal finance and corporate finance and has developed multiple ways to use technology to introduce real-life situations into the classroom and online environment.