Century 21 Accounting or Economic Education for Consumers

Century 21 Accounting: General Journal

Author: Claudia Bienias Gilbertson

No other accounting text takes you further or gives you more. With CENTURY 21 ACCOUNTING GENERAL JOURNAL, 9E you place the advantage of more than 100 years of accounting success into your students' hands with the latest from this authoritative leader in accounting education. Each advantage you find within CENTURY 21 ACCOUNTING GENERAL JOURNAL, 9E reflects guidance from a Teacher Review Board of more than 60 experienced educators, just like you, and input from a first-of-its-kind Student Advisory Board. This edition's fresh, clean presentation addresses your contemporary classroom needs as effectively today as this best-selling text did more than a century ago when it redefined the accounting course. CENTURY 21 ACCOUNTING GENERAL JOURNAL begins with a two-column general journal, and then introduces students to special journals in Part Two. This is the only text to offer you a choice in accounting presentation. The NINTH EDITION'S new student-driven design now integrates commercial technology into the end of every chapter and offers the market's first Online Working Papers, based on your requests. A unique focus on financial literacy and emphasis on character in this edition, as well as actual companies selected by students prepare your class for accounting challenges.Trust the book's unwavering accuracy to ensure a complete text, comprehensive package, and technology solutions with the advantage to move your course and your students ahead in today's times.

See also: Construction Project Scheduling and Control or Corporate Governance

Economic Education for Consumers

Author: Roger LeRoy Miller

EDUCATION FOR CONSUMERS, 3rd Edition brings economic, consumer, and personal finance topics to life. Exciting changes to this edition include a bright new design and updated information on important changes in technology, banking, and taxes. Organized into several class-length lessons, each chapter contains several features to capture and maintain student interest, such as Consumer Alert, What in the World?, Vote Your Wallet, Buy the Number$, Consumer in Action!, Guess What?, Math of Money, Cyber Consumer, Primary Sources, and Communicate. Journal activities, located at the beginning and end of each chapter, connect the theme of each chapter and reinforce communication skills. The Life Span Plan Project links all aspects of personal finance to the student's life in a capstone project, using icons throughout each chapter to encourage students to think about how each topic relates to their own "Life Span Plan."

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Consumers: The Engine that Runs the Economy. 1.1. Decisions, Decisions. 1.2. Make Decisions. 1.3. Understand Economic Systems. 1.4. Consumer's Role in the Economy. 1.5. Advertising and Consumer Decisions. 1.6. Be a Responsible Consumer. Chapter 2. Buying Technology Products: Let's Talk Tech. 2.1. Technology and Consumer Choice. 2.2. Move into Cyberspace. 2.3. Choose a Personal Computer. 2.4. Shop on the Net. 2.5. Protect Yourself on the Internet. Chapter 3. Consumer Protection: Rights, Responsibilities, Resolutions. 3.1. Consumer Rights and Responsibilities. 3.2. Government and Consumer Protection. 3.3. Deception and Fraud. 3.4. Resolve Consumer Problems. Chapter 4. Choose a Career: Get a Job. 4.1. Get to Know Yourself. 4.2. Explore Careers. 4.3. Apply for a Job. 4.4. Interview Successfully. 4.5. Prepare for the Future. Chapter 5. Taxes: How Much Income Will You Keep?. 5.1. Taxes and Your Paycheck. 5.2. File a Tax Return. 5.3. Taxes and Government. 5.4. Government Spending. Chapter 6. Budgeting: How Will You Use Your Money?. 6.1. Choose Financial Goals. 6.2. Track Income and Expenses. 6.3. Your Budget Worksheet. 6.4. Create Your Budget for the Year. Chapter 7. Banking Services: Where to Stash Your Cash. 7.1. How Banks Work. 7.2. Use Your Checking Account. 7.3. Electronic Banking. 7.4. Balance Your Checkbook. 7.5. Other Banking Services. Chapter 8. Saving: Plan for Financial Security. 8.1. Why Save?. 8.2. Savings Institutions and Account. 8.3. Save with Safety. 8.4. Simple and Compound Interest. Chapter 9. Investing: Prepare for Your Future. 9.1. Investing Basics. 9.2. How toInvest in Corporations. 9.3. How to Invest in Mutual Funds. 9.4. Research Investments. 9.5. Retirement and Other Investments. Chapter 10. Credit: You're in Charge. 10.1. What is Credit?. 10.2. How to Qualify for Credit. 10.3. Sources of Consumer Credit. 10.4. Credit Rights and Responsibilities. 10.5. Maintain a Good Credit Rating Chapter 11. Budget Essentials: Food, Clothes, Fun. 11.1. Nutrition Facts. 11.2. Shop for a Healthful Diet. 11.3. Evaluate Clothes Choices. 11.4. Recreation and Travel. Chapter 12. Transportation: How Will You Get There?. 12.1. Transportation Basics. 12.2. How to Choose a Car. 12.3. To Buy or Lease?. 12.4. The Car-Buying Process. 12.5. How to Maintain a Car. Chapter 13. Housing: A Place to Call Home. 13.1. Your Housing Options. 13.2. How to Rent an Apartment. 13.3. How to Buy a Home. 13.4. How to Furnish Your Home. Chapter 14. Automobile and Home Insurance: Sharing the Risk. 14.1. Insurance Basics. 14.2. Automobile Insurance. 14.3. Home Insurance Coverage. 14.4. Providers and the Claims Process. Chapter 15. Health and Life Insurance: Your Personal Security. 15.1. Health Insurance Basics. 15.2. Health Insurance Plans. 15.3. Choose a Health Plan. 15.4. Health Care Rights and Responsibilities. 15.5. Life Insurance. Chapter 16. Choose Services: When You Need Help. 16.1. Health Care Providers. 16.2. Legal Service Providers. 16.3. Government Assistance. Chapter 17. Global Economy: What It Means to You. 17.1. The Nature of International Trade. 17.2. U.S. Economy and World Trade. 17.3. Government and the Economy. 17.4. It's a Global Economy.