2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Jul 05, 2025  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]

BSA 110 - Personal Finance


Description: Information for making personal and family financial decisions. Topics include financial planning, budgeting, saving, credit, insurance, investment, taxes, and retirement.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Financial planning
  2. Financial management
  3. Investing and savings
  4. Banks and the banking system
  5. Alternative currencies
  6. Taxes
  7. Insurance
  8. Retirement and Social Security

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Explain the importance of time, assets, and markets to the discipline of finance. (1-3)
  2. Distinguish banking and investment systems. (1, 3-5)
  3. Define saving plans and investments to achieve your financial goals. (1-4, 8)
  4. Prepare individual tax forms. (6)
  5. Recognize different types of insurance options. (7)
  6. Identify financial statements to build a budget. (1, 2, 5, 8)
  7. Describe financial scenarios for retirement. (1-3, 8)