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Instructor Edition
Focus on Personal Finance: An Active Approach to Help You Develop Successful Financial Skills

Jack Kapoor, College of DuPage
Les Dlabay, Lake Forest College
Robert J Hughes, Dallas County Community Colleges

ISBN: 0072992395
Copyright year: 2006

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Instructor Supplements:

The Instructors Resource CD (0072992433) provides instructors with one resource for all of the Focus on Personal Finance supplementary material including :

  • Instructor's Manual
    Created by the authors, the Instructor's Manual includes a "Course Planning Guide" with instructional strategies, course projects, and supplementary resource lists. The "Chapter Teaching Materials" section of the Instructor's Manual provides a chapter overview, the chapter objectives with summaries, introductory activities, and detailed lecture outlines and sample syllabi with teaching suggestions.
    This section also includes concluding activities, ready-to-duplicate quizzes, supplementary lecture materials and activities, and answers to concept checks, end-of-chapter questions, problems and cases, as well as video cases and their solutions. A print version of the Instructor's Manual (0072992476) is also available.
  • Test Bank
    The Test Bank, also created by the authors, consists of close to 2,000 multiple-choice, true-false, and essay questions. These test items are organized by the Objectives for each chapter. This resource also includes answers, text page references, and an indication of difficulty level. A print version of the Test Bank (0072992484) is available, please contact your campus representative for details on how to order.
  • Computerized Test Bank
    Utilizing McGraw-Hill's EZ Test testing software to quickly create customized exams, this user-friendly program allows instructors to sort questions by format; edit existing questions or add new ones; and scramble questions for multiple versions of the same test.
  • PowerPoint Presentation
    Created by Samira Hussein and Stephen Chambers, both of Johnson County Community College, it offers more than 350 visual presentations that may be edited and manipulated to fit a particular course.

Videos
Our ten 30-minute videos, almost one per chapter, help to visually illustrate important personal finance concepts in potential "real-life" situations. Developed by Coastline Community College, these ½ hour segments can be used with multiple chapters at any time during the course. For a list of videos and their descriptions, please see the Instructor's Manual. (ISBN 007299245X)

Online Learning Center (OLC) is a website that follows the text chapter-by-chapter. OLC content is ancillary and supplementary germane to the textbook, as students read the book, they can go online to take self-grading quizzes, review material, or work through interactive exercises. OLCs can be delivered multiple ways—professors and students can access them directly through the textbook website, through PageOut, or within a course management system (i.e. WebCT, Blackboard, TopClass, or eCollege.)

PageOut is McGraw-Hill's unique point-and click course Website tool, enabling you to create a full-featured, professional quality course Website without knowing HTML coding. With PageOut you can post your syllabus online, assign McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center or eBook content, add links to important off-site resources, and maintain student results in the online grade book. You can send class announcements, copy your course site to share with colleagues, and upload original files. PageOut is free for every McGraw-Hill/Irwin user and, we even have a team ready to help you create your site!

Student's Supplements:

Student CD, available with new textbooks, includes:
Your Personal Financial Plan software
This Windows-based, computerized version of the Your Personal Financial Plan sheets (located at the end of each chapter) and other financial tools for handling personal finance calculations allows students to work through the sheets with the computer, and print or save one's personal financial plan for future reference. The software also provides a convenient way to update the personal financial plan as one's life situation changes.

Self-Study Tutor, created by Dr. Anne Gleason, University of Central Oklahoma, students can run through 50-75 multiple-choice and true-false questions per chapter. All of the questions are different from the end-of-chapter text problems, and offer an additional way to master concepts and help prepare for quizzes and exams.

Online Learning enter at www.mhhe.com/kdh
The text's website has a number of study tools and additional resources, including:
Online Quizzes consisting of 10 questions per chapter; Crossword puzzles, created by Patricia Halliday, Santa Monica College; Flashcards that present key term definitions on one side, and the key terms on the other side. There is also a link to Personal Finance Online, an exclusive Web tool from McGraw-Hill/Irwin. This value-added site provides even more personal finance practice exercises and activities using the Internet. There are over 50 exercises for 11 different key personal finance topics that draw on recent articles, company reports, government data, and other Web-based resources.


To obtain an instructor login for this Online Learning Center, ask your local sales representative. If you're an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook, request a free copy for review.