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Published: 
January 2010
Page Count: 
360
ISBN (Digital): 
978-1-4533-2740-1

Personal Finance

Version 1.0
By Rachel S. Siegel and Carol Yacht

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Personal Finance, v. 1.0


Rachel Siegel and Carol Yacht


In writing Personal Finance, Rachel Siegel and Carol Yacht’s goals were clear and simple:


    • To help students develop a strong sense of financial literacy
    • To provide a wide range of pedagogical aids to keep students engaged and instructors on track.

    Rachel would love to hear from you. If you have questions about teaching with her book, comments about teaching Personal Finance, or just feedback, feel free to email her here at siegelcfa@gmail.com


    This textbook is suitable for these courses: Personal Finance

    This textbook is suitable for 2 and 4 year institutions.


    PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES:

      • LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
      • The headings, summaries, reviews and problems all link together via the learning objectives. This helps instructors teach what they want and assign problems that correspond to the learning objectives covered in class.

      • PERSONAL FINANCE PLANNING PROBLEMS:
      • Personal Finance includes personal finance planning problems with links to solutions and application exercises, with links to their associated worksheet(s) or spreadsheet(s).

      • INTERACTIVE AND PRACTICAL CONCEPT APPLICATIONS:
      • In addition, the text boasts a large number of links to videos, podcasts, experts’ tips or blogs, and magazine articles to illustrate the practical applications for concepts covered in the text.

      • CUSTOMIZABILITY:
      • Finally, the modular nature of the chapters lends itself to the Flat World Knowledge publishing model allowing instructors to adapt the textbook to the exact needs of their specific class and student body.

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Rachel S. Siegel Northern Vermont University

Rachel S. Siegel (MBA Yale University, CFA) was a professor of finance, economics, and accounting at Vermont State University from 1990–2016. She has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Trinity College (Vermont), Granite State College (New Hampshire), Springfield College (Massachusetts), the University of Vermont, and in Tel Aviv, Israel, for Champlain College. Rachel has been a consultant to the CFA Institute on exam development, data forensics, and curricula, and has consulted on various exam prep courses in finance. She has also developed a freelance career as a financial editor and writer, for both investment firms and academics. Her column “Follow the Money” has been a regular feature of the Northstar Monthly since 2001. Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Rachel now lives in Barnet, Vermont.

Carol Yacht Software Consultant

Carol Yacht is a textbook author and accounting educator. Carol contributes regularly to professional journals and is the Accounting Section Editor for Business Education Forum, a publication of the National Business Education Association. She is the author of Dynamics-GP (Great Plains), Peachtree, Microsoft Office Accounting, QuickBooks, and Excel textbooks; and the accounting textbook supplement, Carol Yacht’s General Ledger and Peachtree CD-ROMs (www.mhhe.com/yacht). Carol taught on the faculties of California State University, Los Angeles; West Los Angeles College; Yavapai College; and Beverly Hills High School. Since 1978, Carol has included software in her classes to help students master accounting. Carol Yacht is an officer of the American Accounting Association’s Two-Year College section and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a member of the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance Advisory Council; served on NBEA’s Computer Education Task Force; worked for IBM Corporation as an education instruction specialist; and is a frequent speaker at state, regional, and national conventions. Carol earned her MA degree from California State University, Los Angeles; BS degree from the University of New Mexico, and AS degree from Temple University.

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