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Term | Definition |
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Certificate of deposit | A savings certificate that gains interest and has a set time before you can withdraw your money |
Assets | What a person owns of value, such as jewelry, savings, art, a home, and a car |
Bank | A place where people put their money for safekeeping, and for ease of use |
Brokerage firm | Helps people invest their money |
Budget | A spending plan people make in order to make sure there is enough income to cover all expenses |
Career | Something you build by going to school and working jobs related to the career you want |
Charity | Giving resources or volunteering time to help those in need |
Comparison shopping | Finding out whether or not what you are about to buy can be found for a better price |
Controlling risk | Stuff you do to make risks less dangerous or not dangerous at all |
Credit | A loan that a person uses to pay for things, but is expected to pay back |
Credit union | Just like a bank, only its members own it |
Decidion making | Considering different information to make a choice |
Entrepreneur | A person who starts his or her own business |
Expense | The cost of the things that people spend money on |
Financial advisor | A person who is an expert at handling money and can give you information and advise about saving and investing |
Financial institution | A place, like a bank, that helps its member manage their money |
financial literacy | The knowlege and skill to manage money |
Health insurance | Helps people pay for medicine and doctors when they ane sick or hurt |
Impulse buying | Buying stuff wihtout thinking about whether or not you need it |
Income | Money earned from working or other means |
Income tax | Annual placed on the money employees make at jobs and collected by the federal government, most states, and some local government |
Inflation | The price of goods and services rise over time |
Interest | The extra fee charged for borrowing money, or the cost of borrowing money |
Investing | When you purchase a security like a stock or bond, in the hopes that over time it will make money |
Job | Work you do for money |
Longterm goal | A goal that can be achieved in a longer amount of time. |
Need | Somthing you truly can not live without |
Opporitunity cost | The cost we pay when we give up somthing to get somthing else |
Payment method | What you use to pay for somthing, like cash or a check |
Peer pressure | doing stuff just becuse your friends are doing it, or becuse your friend told you to do it, becuse you want your friends to like you |
Privacy | Keeping important information to yourself |
Reliability | Being trustworthy; being responsable |
Risk | An activity or action that might be dangerous |
Risk prevention | Stuff you do to consequences of risk from happening |
Salary | Payment for work, represented as a yearly sum and paid in portion every week, two week, or month including sick time or vacation time |
Sales tax | A fee added to the sticker price of an item that is paid to the state or city |
Saving | Money set aside for short- or long-term goals |
Savings account | An account that gains interest and allows withdrawal |
Short-term goal | A goal that can be achieved in a short amount of time |
Spend | To use money to buy stuff |
Taxes | Fees placed on income, purchases, or property to support government programs |
Wages | Payment for work, usually calculated on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis and paid on schedule- ussually every week, two weeks, or month |
Want | Somthing you would like to have but will be okay without |