FI 121 - Personal Financial Management

(3.00 cr.)

Designed to allow students to develop a framework for planning and implementing a lifetime finance program. Investigates alternative personal financial decisions with a view toward optimizing personal wealth and creating more informed consumers. Students develop a personal financial plan. Topics include personal budgeting and planning and investment decisions with respect to education, automobiles, houses, securities, health and property insurance, retirement needs, and estate planning. Open to all majors as a general elective. Does not fulfill course requirements for the finance concentration.