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Personal Finance
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Personal Finance | Making all your financial decisions |
Consumer | Person who purchases goods or services |
Paycheck to Paycheck | Spending 80% on debt, with only 20% left for emergencies and living expenses |
Credit | The ability to borrow money |
Interest | The price paid for borrowing money |
Income | Money you earn from labor, or investments |
Wallet | A flat -sized case holding money, cards etc. |
Coins | A small flat round piece of metal used as a medium of exchange |
Saving | Money not spent |
Debt | Money owed to an individual, or company |
Dollars | Domestic currency of the U.S. |
Interest Rates | The percentage one pays to borrow money |
Spending | To pay out money |
Barter | To trade one item for another roughly of equal value |
Change | The difference between the closing price from one day to the next. |
Purse | Small bag for carrying money |
Buy | To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent |
Lend | To make a loan |
Cash | Physical currency printed on banknotes and coins |
Loan Shark | A person who makes illegal loans by charging an extraordinarily high interest rate |
Budget | A plan for a person's expenditures |
Profit | The money a business has left after it pays its operating expenses, taxes, and other bills |
Money | A currency that may be exchanged for goods and services |
Checks | A document in which the writer orders his/her bank to pay to the receiver of the check a stated amount of money |