1. WELCOME TO NHS BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT
FINANCE AND INVESTMENT MRS. ANITA MOORE

2. Teacher Biography
Teaching
Prior to Teaching

3. Parent / Teacher Communication
Student grades published on Home Access

4. Google Classroom
Contains information about the course, assignments, and announcements
Student access via district assigned Gmail accounts

5. Why is a course about Personal Finance important?
Debt Totals
The average credit card debt for young adult households is nearly 24% of income spent on debt servicing. (10% is the recommended limit.)
Bankruptcy
Young Americans (18-30) now have the second highest rate of bankruptcy, just after those aged

6. Objectives Financial literacy to empower future generations
Prepare students for personal and societal decision making

7. Student Benefits
Development of a portfolio providing students with the tools to manage their personal financial decisions now and in the future
Acquisition of 21st Century skills such as analytical thinking, problem solving and decision making
Recognition that personal financial choices have consequences that affect an individual and the economy as a whole

8. Planning a Career in Finance
Forbes listed Finance as one of its top 15 most valuable college majors
Based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics information on college major value in terms of salary and career prospects

9. Course Topics Skills Resources Careers Goals and Decision making
Banking
Includes balancing a checkbook 
Budgeting
Managing Risk
Saving
Investing
Taxes
Credit
Buying a car
Renting an apartment
Buying a house
Financing a college education