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Virtual Business®
- Personal Finance
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©2008 · Version 1.0
Grade 9 and up
Download Trial Version
(Trial version requires
Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1) |
Virtual Business®
- Personal Finance is the only personal finance product
to combine rich visuals and animations with a complete
simulation that covers all aspects of personal finance.
Engage your students with a totally visual computer simulation
that lets them learn and practice all the key personal financial
skills they’ll need to succeed in life. Virtual Business -
Personal Finance will present your students with
challenges around bank accounts, credit and debit cards, bills,
credit scores, taxes, insurance, investing, and more.
An ideal teaching tool to use in the
following courses:
- Personal
Finance
- Career and
Life Skills
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Introduction to Business
- General
Business courses covering Personal Finance
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How Virtual Business – Personal
Finance Works: Students
start with standards-based lessons. There are 18 lessons, each with
four to six pages of written course material. Each lesson also has
written exercises and computer exercises that are designed to test
the students’ grasp of the topic being covered.
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Overview of Skills Covered:
- Budgeting & Saving
- Choosing & Balancing a
Checking Account
- Getting a Credit Card
- Fixing Your Credit
- Education & Advancement
- Using Online Banking
- Paying Your Taxes
- Intro. to Investing
- Time Management & Health
- Finding a Job
- Finding an Apartment
- Buying a Car
- Shopping
- Risk vs. Return
- Diversification
- Investing for Retirement
- Buying a Home
- Insurance
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Virtual Business -
Personal Finance correlates with
National Business Education Association Standards, Marketing
National Standards, National Entrepreneurship Standards, and SCANS
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Virtual Business®
- Personal Finance Simulation Software |
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Item # |
Description |
Price |
Order
Online |
VBPF-5 |
5 User
License |
$445.00 ea. |
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VBPF-LAB |
1 Lab License |
$895.00
ea. |
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VBPF-SITE |
Unlimited School License |
$1,395.00 ea. |
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VBPF-ACD |
Assessment CD (Highly Recommended) |
$199.00 ea. |
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District License
Pricing: For custom license pricing, please e-mail
sales@bepublishing.com call customer service at
1-888-781-6921.
Virtual Business is a registered trademark of Knowledge Matters,
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Step
up the pace of your classroom with multiplayer competitions.
Students will be completely engaged as they compete against
classmates to see who has the most “financial” savvy.
The
Assessment CD contains a Quiz Generator, an optional supplement to
the product. The Quiz Generator allows instructors to easily create
quizzes with questions based on selected lessons.