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Net Pay - correct answer -Total earnings after payroll taxes and other
deductions; also called take-home pay
Expenses - correct answer -Products, services, or bills you are
responsible for paying
Gross Pay - correct answer -Total earnings before any deductions are
taken
Budget - correct answer -A plan of your expected income and how you
will use it to meet your expected expenses over a period of time
,Paycheck Stub - correct answer -A document attached to every
paycheck that details your earnings and the amount withheld for taxes,
health insurance, retirement funds, etc.
Needs - correct answer -Purchases a person must have to live or
succeed or bills that must be paid to remain in good standing
Wants - correct answer -Nonessential purchases a person wants to feel
happy or on par with their peers
Cost Of Living - correct answer -The amount of money needed to
sustain a certain level of living, including basic expenses such as
housing, food, taxes, and healthcare; often used when comparing how
expensive it is to live in one city versus another
Deduction - correct answer -Any items subtracted from your paycheck,
including state and federal income taxes, Social Security, health
insurance or 401(k) contributions
,Income - correct answer -Money that is earned from work, investments,
business, etc.
401(k) Plan - correct answer -A retirement savings plan, sponsored
through your employer who will often match your contributions, that
allows an individual to save for retirement and have the savings grow
while deferring taxes until funds are withdrawn
Municipal Bond - correct answer -A bond, often having tax advantages
for individual investors, issued by a state or local government which
typically uses the loan to pay for public works to benefit its citizens
Dollar Cost Averaging - correct answer -The practice of putting a fixed
amount into an investment over a period of time, regardless of the
price of that investment
Small Cap Stock - correct answer -A stock with market capitalization
between $300 million and $1 billion
, Roth IRA - correct answer -An individual retirement account that allows
a person to set aside after-tax income up to a specified amount each
year
Market Capitalization - correct answer -Market value of a company's
outstanding shares calculated by multiplying the current share price by
number of shares outstanding
Index Fund - correct answer -A low-fee portfolio of stocks chosen to
track or mimic a stock market index, thereby removing the human
element of investing because no one is choosing the individual stocks
Bond - correct answer -A security in which the investor loans money to
a company or government, which then pays regular interest to the
bondholder and returns the principal on the bond's maturity date