Financial life cycle: Planning for different points of life, we have different sources of income and different needs/ wants.
Need: Something which we cannot live without. It is necessary to our lives. Example: food and clothes.
Want: Something which we can live without but would like to have. It is not necessary for survival. It is a luxury. Example: a holiday.
Opportunity cost: Given our income, the choice we have to make between satisfying our needs or wants and therefore going without something.
Personal resources different types of
qualities and possessions available to help us reach a goal.
Personal financial life cycle:
Create our own, based on needs and wants, age, ambitions.
Borrowing: Receiving a loan (money) from a financial institution and repaying that loan with interest.
Sustainability: This is a balanced approach to the economic activity, whilst taking the environment into consideration. Our choices and plans affect the environment.
Savings: This is part of income which we do not spend. This means holding on to and not spending all of our income.
Investing: Putting your money/savings into a product or scheme that should make you a profit (income).
Mortgage: Taken out by the household/ individual from a financial institution to pay for a house.
Bank overdraft: The individual or household is given permission by the bank to withdraw more money than is in their account.