NBEA Category: Personal Finance

Standard: I. Personal Decision Making

‘SMART’ Financial Goal-setting

Advantages and Pitfalls of Using Cash and Prepaid Cards

Alternative Choices — Understanding Opportunity Costs

At The Margins: What Is Something Worth to You?

Avoiding Common Bank Fees

Balance Sheet

Bounded Rationality–Everyone Makes Mistakes

Bringing It All Together: Using the concepts of scarcity, utility, opportunity costs and risk to manage a car dealership

Budgeting for College Life

Common Cents: A Lesson about Getting Banked or Staying Unbanked

Comparing Auto Loans

Comparing Job Offers: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Comparing Student Loans

Comparison Shopping Big-ticket Items

Consumerism and Scarcity

Emotional vs. Rational Brain

Financial Decision-making: Car Ownership

Financial Planning for Jane

Fringe Banking and Predatory Lenders

Game Theory–Strategies and Payoffs

How to Minimize Student Loan Debt

Identity Theft

Jobs and Money Lesson 1: The New Job Market

Jobs and Money Lesson 3: What’s Yours and What’s Not: Paychecks and Deductions

Limited Resources — Thinking about Choice and Scarcity

Managing Your Finances with Mobile Phones

Money in the Bank: Getting to Your Money

Money in the Bank: Your Best Interest

Money in the Bank: Your Best Interest 2

Multiple Choice — What Is My Best Alternative?

Opportunity Costs: What is My Best Alternative?

Portfolio Management

Preparing for an Automobile Accident

Risks and Rewards: Dealing with Uncertainty

Risky Business — Dealing with Uncertainty

Selling School — Putting It All Together

Should You Buy a House?

Strategies Businesses Use to Influence Buying Decisions

The Amazing Race

The Company Income Statement

The Good Life: Credit

The Good Life: Credit and Personal Responsibility

The Good Life: Your Money, Your Credit

The Impact of Financial Problems on a Person’s Well-being

The Power of Compound Interest

Understanding Scarcity: An Introduction to Supply and Demand

Understanding Utility: How Do We Allocate Resources?

Unlimited Preferences — Defining and Measuring Utility

Using Technology to Keep and Use Financial Records

What Is Economics? A Lesson on Choice and Scarcity

What to Expect–Decision-making and Expected Value

WiFi, Passwords, and Phishing: Online Safety Tips

You Are How You Organize: Keeping and Using Financial Records

Your Online Financial Life

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