Advanced Budgeting

Advanced Budgeting

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Here's how Advanced Budgeting aligns with curriculum standards in Indiana. Use the filters to change the location, set of standards, and grade level.

Financial and Decision Making

12-1.1: Demonstrate taking responsibility for personal financial decisions.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-1.1.1: Explain how individuals demonstrate responsibility for financial well-being over a lifetime.

12-1.4: Make financial decisions by systematically considering alternatives and consequences.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-1.4.1: Set measurable short-term and medium-term, and long-term financial goals.
12-1.4.2: Evaluate the results of financial decisions.
12-1.4.3: Apply systematic decision making to short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals.

Relating Income and Careers

12-2.3: Explain how taxes and employee benefits relate to disposable income.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-2.3.1: Analyze typical employee benefits and explain why they are a form of compensation.

Planning and Managing Money

12-3.1: Demonstrate ability to use money management skills and strategies.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-3.1.1: Create a basic budget with categories for income, taxes, planned savings, and fixed and variable expenses.
12-3.1.2: Demonstrate budgeting to manage spending and achieve financial goals.

12-3.2: Develop a system for keeping and using financial records.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-3.2.1: Demonstrate use of a system to record income and spending for purchases, services, and taxes.
12-3.2.2: Demonstrate recordkeeping that utilizes a financial institutions online account management system.

12-3.3: Analyze services of financial institutions.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-3.3.1: Demonstrate skill in executing different payment methods, including cash, checks, stored-value cards, debit cards, credit cards, and electronic or online payment systems.
12-3.3.2: Demonstrate skill in basic financial tasks, including bill payments, check writing, reconciling checking and debit account statements, and monitoring printed and online account statements for accuracy.

12-3.4: Apply consumer skills to purchase decisions.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-3.4.1: Evaluate impact of external factors on spending decisions.
12-3.4.2: Apply knowledge of external factors to justify a consumer buying decision.
12-3.4.3: Compare the benefits and costs of owning a house versus renting a house.

12-3.5: Connect the role of charitable giving, volunteer service, and philanthropy to community development and quality of life.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-3.5.1: Demonstrate budgeting financial and other resources to make contributions to a charitable organization.

12-3.6: Develop a personal financial plan.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-3.6.1: Analyze ways to modify spending practices to achieve financial goals.
12-3.6.2: Develop a personal financial plan that shows allocation of income, spending, saving/investing, and sharing/giving over a year-long time span.

Managing Credit and Debt

12-4.1: Analyze the costs and benefits of using various types of credit.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-4.1.2: Explain how grace periods, methods of calculating interest, and fees affect borrowing costs.
12-4.1.3: Apply systematic decision making to identify the most cost-effective option for making a major purchase.

12-4.2: Analyze factors that influence establishing and maintaining a good credit rating.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-4.2.1: Explain how a credit report affects creditworthiness and the cost of credit.
12-4.2.2: Describe ways a negative credit report affects a consumer's financial future and steps to take to improve it.

12-4.3: Analyze methods and benefits of avoiding or correcting credit and debt problems.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-4.3.2: Describe possible consequences of excessive debt.

Risk Management and Insurance

12-5.2: Analyze the need for and value of various types of insurance across stages of the life cycle.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-5.2.1: Analyze the amount of coverage a person needs for health, property, life, disability, and liability insurance.
12-5.2.3: Analyze factors that can reduce or increase insurance costs.

Saving and Investing

12-6.1: Explain how saving contributes to financial wellbeing.

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Defined by Personal Financial Responsibility Course and Standards 12th Grade and align with Advanced Budgeting
12-6.1.1: Compare saving strategies, including "pay yourself first," payroll deduction, and comparison shopping to spend less.