For introductory courses in Personal Finance. This new edition of Brown's best-selling text provides students with the basic principles, concepts and vocabulary necessary to cope with the tricky world of personal finance. In five previous editions, instructors uniformly praised Brown's accessible writing style and strong pedagogical features. The sixth edition has been further enhanced with the addition of new boxed material and new lists of internet sites, a streamlining of chapters near the end of the book to reduce its overall length, the incorporation of current data and statistics, the addition of new appendices, new CBC videos and video cases, and a free disk containing electronic worksheets using Excel.