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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 choose |
| Certificate of deposit | a savings certificate that gains interest and has a set time before you can withdraw money from it |
| Charity | giving resources or volunteering 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 or in better shape at a different store |
| Controlling risks | things you do to make risks less dangerous or not dangerous at all |
| Credit | a loan someone uses to pay for things, but is expected to pay back |
| Credit union | just like a bank, only its members own it |
| Desicion making | considering different information to make a desicion |
| Entrepeneur | a person who starts his or her own business |
| Expense | the cost of the things that people spenf money on |
| Financial advisor | a person who is an expert at handling money and can give you information and advice about saving and investing |
| Financial instruction | a place, like a bank, that helps its members manage their money |
| Financial literacy | the knowledge and skills to manage money |
| Health insurance | helps people pay for medicine and doctors when they are sick or hurt |
| Impulse buying | buying stuff without thinking about whether or not you need it |
| Income | money earned from working and other means |
| Income tax | annual tax placed on the money employees make at jobs and collected by the federal government, most states, and some local governments |
| Inflation | the price of goods and services rises over time |
| Interest | the extra gee 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 |
| Long-term goal | a goal that can be achieced in a longer amount of time. It can be months, years, or even and entire lifetime |
| Need | something you truly can not live without |
| Oppertunity Cost | the cost we pay when we give up something to get something else |
| Payment method | what you use to pay for something, like cash or check |
| Peer pressure | doing stuff just because your friends are doing it, or because your friends told you to, because you want your friends to like you and think you are cool |
| Privacy | keeping important information to yourself or betweenyourself and close family members |
| Reliability | being trustworthy; being responsible |
| Risk | an activitu or action that migh be dangerous |
| Risk prevention | stuff you do to stop consequences of risks form happening |
| Salary | payment for work, represented as a yearly sum and paid in portions every week, two weeks, or month including sick time and vacation time |
| Sales tax | a fee added to the sticker price of an item that is paid to the state or city |
| Savings | money set aside for a short- or long-term goal |
| Savings account | an account that gains interest and allows withdrawals |
| Short-term goal | a goal that can be achieved in a chor amount of time. it can be a few days, weeks, or months |
| Spend | to use money to buy stuff |
| taxes | fees placed on income, purchases, or property to support government programs |
| Wage | payment for work, usually calculated on a hourly, daily, or piecework basis and paid on schedule- usually week, two weeks, or month |
| Want | something you would like to have but will be okay without |