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saving and investing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| savings | part of the income we dont spend |
| investing | using our money to earn a greater return than is possible from an ordinary savings account |
| building society | a financial institution that provides a wide range of banking services to their customers |
| credit unions | a non-profit organisation where people save regularly |
| an post | a commercial organisation providing postal,communication,money transmission and retail services to businesses and personel customers |
| savings bonds | you purchase these to make a 10% profit over 3 years |
| savings certificate | you purchase these to make a 21% profit over 5 years |
| national instalment savings | you lodge a sum of money and the amount must be left five years to make a profit |
| deposit account | when interest is paid on your account each year |
| money order | an order to a post office to pay a person a certain amount of money |
| intrerest | the reward for saving money |
| simple interest | simple interest is where the interest is a percentage of the money you put in the account |
| compound interest | when interest is calculated on your savings and the money you had before them |
| CAR | the actual rate of interest you are earning on your savings/investment |
| DIRT | the tax on savings |