Personal finance - George Callaghan

Fulfilling the need for a UK–centred introductory personal finance text, this dedicated author team provide academic, professional and general readers with what they really need to know about personal finance.

Personal Finance
is an innovative new text that builds confidence and competence in making personal financial decisions. Using a socio–economic approach to personal finance, it illuminates the many factors and relationships that help improve financial capability, including:

• Decision on spending, borrowing, saving and investing are set within a broader context
• Concepts such as income and expenditure, risk and return, and assets and liabilities are related to issues of home ownership, caring responsibilities and lifestyle changes
• Case studies are used to demonstrate practical relevance, while diagrams and activities help distill complex issues into digestible form.

"An ideal core text for first– and second–year undergraduates requiring an awareness of individuals' financial problems and their possible solutions."
— Bob Curry

" Personal Finance
addresses a particular gap, and the overview is impressive."
— Steve McKay

"What distinguishes this book is that it focuses not only on 'what you need to know' about personal finance, but also on 'what you might be interested in knowing' about the socio–economic context in which financial decisions are made – it makes the text more useful for an academic course and certainly makes for interesting reading."
— Jane King

" Personal Finance
presents the subject of financial planning in an intellectually stimulating way which links theory to practice and is comprehensible to both the student and the layperson."
— James Mallon

" Personal Finance
will prove a valuable tool in the quest to achieve a greater degree of financial capability in the UK."
— Mike Griffiths

The companion web site at www.wileyeurope.com/collegel/callaghan provides lectures with PowerPoint slides for each chapter. Students, practitioners and general readers will find valuable financial planning tools, relevant web links and an online glossary.