Importance of Personal Finances
Jonathan Woods
Liberty University Online
ACCT 301-B08 LUO
201520
Week 7
According to the National Financial Educators Council, youth across America are slowly becoming illiterate when it comes to their personal finances. A study was introduced by Beierlein & Neverett (2013) through Harris Interactive for the National Council of Economic Education that stated, “Participants, 3,512 adults aged 18 and above and 2,242 students in grades 9-12, took a 24 question quiz on economics and personal finance. The adults surveyed scored an average grade of 70%, while the students ' average was 53%. Nearly 30% of the adults and 60% of the students failed the quiz. Ironically, although 97% of the adults
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Time and time again, youth are demonstrating a major lack of knowledge within the one area that they will deal with for the rest of their lives. An understanding of one’s personal finances are crucial to the development and maturity of one’s self, family, and lifestyle. To reach one’s capabilities, fiscally, is determined by their understanding of Cash flows, income, cost effectiveness, timing, and investments.
Cash flows are very simplistic. One can think of it as the income and outgo of one’s financial success and liabilities. Merriam-Webster defines cash flows as,” the movement of money in and out of a business.” One can also consider and apply this to their personal finances. Thinking on things such as, “How much money is made?” and “How much money is spent?” According to Richard and Anna Linzer (2008), they describe the cash flow concept as,” Cash flow thinking involves focusing on the arrival of revenues and the departure of expenditures that occur during an institution’s fiscal year (3).” Again, making this concept personal, an individual can break this down to how much of a paycheck will come in and how much money does one need to pay out for bills and other expenditures during that pay period or fiscal year. To be able establish literacy of one’s personal finances, there must be an understanding of the liquidity of funds such as cash flows. Ultimately, understanding cash flows helps to motivate a budget.
Now that an understanding of cash
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A cash flow is an accounting statement and is normally called the statement of cash flows. A cash flow statement shows the amount of cash generated and used by a company in a given period. The cash flow is calculated by adding noncash charges to net income after taxes. It is important and crucial for businesses to have a healthy cash flow because it helps with the survival of a business. A business might experience cash flow issues due to the direct link between the low profits or losses and cash flow problems; the loss makes the business eventually run out of cash. They can also experience cash flow problems due to the business holding too much stock, this tie up cash and there is an increased risk that stocks cannot be sold. Businesses can also experience cash flow problems due to the over investment.
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1. Cash that comes into or goes out of a person's or company's account. Cash flow can come from any number of sources and is crucial for a business' continued operation and a person's continued survival. Cash inflow may come from wages, salary, sales, loans, revenue from operations, or even personal gifts. Cash outflow usually comes from expenses and investments. It is crucially important to maintain a positive net cash flow insofar as
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How to properly manage money is something that should be taught to young people because it is a very important asset in everyday life. “Total consumer debt in the United States stands at nearly $2.6 trillion dollars. That works out to be nearly $8,500 in debt for every man” (Anderson). Many times teenagers are known for “throwing away” their money by spending it on unnecessary things. This is something that could easily be avoided if students were taught the proper techniques on saving and spending money. There are many different skills that students could learn if personal finance was taught in the school system. Managing money is one of those very important skills and would help to lessen the number of young people spending irresponsibly instead of
Starting financial educational programs early will help set the behavior of our youth as they move through life into
Cash Flow is composed of revenue or expense streams that change cash accounts over a specified period. The "statement of cash flows" showing the amount of cash generated and used by a company during the period is calculated by adding noncash charges (such as depreciation) to net income after taxes. Changes in cash are usually derived from one of three activities - financing, operations or investing.
Indian finance is just the management of funds. With the general areas of financial services in India being business finance, personal finance, and public finance, finance in India is really comprehensive.
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