Growing Your Money Tree: An Introduction to Personal Finance

Book by Angela Wu and Alina Zaidi

Being financially literate is important. In school, they make classes like American history and geometry mandatory, but not something as universally needed as finance.

The answer to the age-old question of “When will I ever use this in real life?” is, well, likely never. If you are going to become a chemist, chances are you won't have to know who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. But what everybody does have to know is some basic finance.

What’s the point of spending all those years of school to get a well-paying job if you don’t know how to take care of that money you’re making, right? Personal finance is an essential skill to prepare for the future.

They say money doesn’t grow on trees, but that’s just because they don’t have the right trees. With the proper care and nourishment, we’ll teach you how to grow your very own money tree.

In this book, you’ll learn about:

• How to calculate net income

• Saving and investing

• Borrowing money

• Insurance

• Payment methods

• Budgeting