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Personal Finance

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General Overview PACE 1 - Analysing contracts and adverts. - Introduction. - Analysis of Adverts and Contracts. - Percentages in Accounts. - Income, Expenditure, Budgets and Inflation - Project: Plan household budget (25%) PACE 2 -  The impact of interest in our lives. - Simple interest. - Compound interest. - Home Loans. - Project: Questions relating to Compound Interest.(25%) PACE 3 - Mortgages. - Home Loans. - Budgets. - Project: Prepare household budget (25%) PACE 4 - Estimating and Calculator Work. - Working with Formulae. - Becoming an entrepreneur. - 1 x Assignment: Draw up a Business Plan (25%) PACE 5 - Understand and interpret financial documents such as: statements and invoices, cell phone and landline accounts, till slips and bank statements - Understand and investigate different tariff systems including municipal tariffs, communication tariffs and transport tariffs - Draw and interpret different types of graphs used to illustrate tariff systems - 1 x Assignment interpreting university fee structures and doing some calculations of student fees PACE 6 - Understand and work with household, business, national and municipal budgets. - Apply different tariff systems - Work with cost price, selling price and profit in the running of a small business - Investigate break-even analysis - Understand inflation and some graphs relating to inflation - Calculate a simple tax return - Work with simple interest and compound interest - Investigate loans and hire purchase - Assignment: set up a business plan using knowledge of cost price, selling price and break-even points.

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