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Case Study 2- How do you handle after-death choices? (Organ/tissue donations, autopsy, burial, cremation)
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Organize Your Important Papers
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Organize Your Important Papers
It is wise to periodically review your important papers. Take a fresh look at the types of records and papers you …
Record of Important Papers
You conduct a variety of business transactions, many of which require supportive records. Birth certificates, proof of ownership, location of property, income tax returns, savings and investment records, insurance policies, guarantees, and warranties are probably among your important papers. These are but a few of the important records needed to operate your home in a business-like way.
Some records should be kept in home files; others should be kept in a safer place such as a home safe, safe deposit …
Dollar-cost Averaging
The process of making regular payments or investing the same amount periodically.…
Stock
In finance: A certificate representing a share of ownership in a company. Stock is the ownership of a corporation represented by shares that are a claim on the corporation’s earnings and assets. There are many kinds of stocks, the most widely known being common stock, which usually entitles a stockholder to vote in the election of directors and other corporate matters.
In viticulture: Grape variety used as the underground portion of a grafted vine onto which the scion…
Mutual Fund
A pooled investment vehicle; its securities are managed for a fee by a professional investment group.…
Blue-Chip Stock
A term, derived from the most expensive chips in a poker game, used to indicate the stock of companies with long records of growth and profitability; i.e., the company has been growing and has been paying dividends for a long time.…
Advance Directives for Health Care
Advance directives for health care are legal documents that enable you to plan for and communicate your end-of-life decisions in the event that you are unable to speak for yourself. Thoughtfully prepared advance directives can ease the burden on those who must make health-care decisions for you. Without advance directives, decisions might be made by doctors, family members, and sometimes even judges who may know little about your wishes. Advance directives give you a voice in decisions about your medical …
Annual Report
A report that public companies are required to file annually that describes the preceding year’s financial results and plans for the upcoming year. Annual reports include information about a company’s assets, liabilities, earnings, profits, and other year-end statistics. If the public can buy stock in a company, that company has to issue a report every year that explains how well it did in the past year and what its strategy is for next year. The report includes what the company …
Ballpark E$timate
The Ballpark E$timate is an easy-to-use, two-page worksheet that helps you quickly identify approximately how much you need to save to fund a comfortable retirement. The Ballpark E$timate takes complicated issues like projected Social Security benefits and earnings assumptions on savings, and turns them into language and mathematics that are easy to understand. The Ballpark E$timate is available as both a worksheet and online interactive form.
Worksheet: http://www.choosetosave.org/ballpark/
Interactive Form: http://www.choosetosave.org/ballpark/index.cfm?fa=interactive…