Personal Finance by Arthur Keown

Personal Finance by Arthur Keown

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Personal Finance by Arthur Keown

For introductory Personal Finance course Through the presentation of the Ten Fundamental Principles of Personal Finance, this text empowers students with the knowledge they need to successfully make and carry out a plan for their own financial future. The fifth edition has been substantially revised to reflect current changes in the financial environment, and student learning styles, while building upon the same basic logic and fundamental principles of personal finance. This edition has been streamlined to focus on the need to know foundations of personal finance with a greater emphasis on visual examples in the form of flow charts, pie charts, and bar graphs.
Arthur J. Keown is an Alumni Distinguished Professor and the R. B. Pamplin Professor of Finance at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his bachelor's degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, his MBA from the University of Michigan, and his doctorate from Indiana University. An award-winning teacher, he is a member of the Academy of Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech, he has received five Certificates of Teaching Excellence, the W. E. Wine Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, and in 1999 he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State of Virginia. In 2016, he was named to be one of 10 Alumni Distinguished Professors on campus and the first and only Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Pamplin College of Business.


Professor Keown is widely published in academic journals. His work has appeared in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Portfolio Management, and many others. Two of his books are widely used in college finance classes all over the country -- Financial Management and Foundations of Finance: The Logic and Practice of Financial Management.


Professor Keown is a Fellow of Decision Sciences Institute and served as Department Head for 12 years. In addition, he has served as the co-editor of both the Journal of Financial Research and the Financial Management Association's Survey and Synthesis Series. He was recently inducted into Ohio Wesleyan's Athletic Hall of Fame for wrestling. His daughter and son are both married and live in Houston, TX, and on Jeju Island in South Korea, while he and his wife live in Blacksburg, VA, where he collects original art from Mad magazine.

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ISBN 13 9780136070627
ISBN 10 0136070620
Title Personal Finance
Author Arthur Keown
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Pearson Education (US)
Year published 2009-03-26
Number of pages 672
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