LIBF Unit 3 topics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7. Exam Resource. 100% Approved. Rated A+
Assets - -Things that a person or a business owns. For a person their assets might include property, jewellery or financial products such as company shares.
Bank rate - -The interest rate that the Bank of Engla...
Assets - ✔✔-Things that a person or a business owns. For a person their assets might include property,
jewellery or financial products such as company shares.
Bank rate - ✔✔-The interest rate that the Bank of England uses when it lends money to other banks.
Financial services providers take account of the Bank rate when they decide how to set interest rates on
their own products.
Bankruptcy - ✔✔-A situation in which a person cannot pay their debts and is the subject of a court order
that shares out their assets between their creditors.
Budget - ✔✔-A plan of expected incomings and outgoings over a set time period such as a month. The
Budget is also the term given to the government's annual spending plan, which the Chancellor sets out
in the House of Commons each year.
Cash-flow forecast - ✔✔-A plan of expected incomings and outgoings over several time periods, such as
the next three months or a year.
Cash-flow modelling - ✔✔-A software program that can predict the medium- and long-term impact of
different decisions and events on an individual's income, expenditure and savings plans.
Contingency plan - ✔✔-A plan to deal with unexpected changes in income or expenditure.
Credit card - ✔✔-A card that allows the holder to make purchases face to face, online or over the phone,
and to withdraw cash from an ATM. Unlike a debit card, where the money is taken from the holder's
own account, transactions are paid by the card provider. The card holder repays the amount owed to
the provider either in one payment or in instalments. The provider charges interest on cash withdrawals
from the time the withdrawal is made and on purchases after a certain period.
,Credit union - ✔✔-A mutual organisation (that is, owned by its members) that provides a range of
financial products to members, eg savings accounts and personal loans.
Deficit - ✔✔-Where expenditure exceeds income.
Discretionary expenditure - ✔✔-Spending on products and services that people want now, and savings
towards items they aspire to buy in the future; it is spending or saving that people can choose to do or
not.
Disposable income - ✔✔-The amount of money left over once mandatory and essential expenditure has
been paid out.
Essential expenditure - ✔✔-Spending on items required to live, eg rent or mortgage repayments, food
and drink, water supplier, gas and electricity.
Financial capability - ✔✔-Being able to manage personal finances effectively.
Fixed interest - ✔✔-Paying the same rate of interest until the end of the savings, investment or loan
term.
Flexible financial planning - ✔✔-Making financial plans to cover wants, needs and aspirations over the
medium to long term, which make allowance for unexpected expenses and changes in circumstance (eg
by including saving and insurance).
Hire purchase - ✔✔-A type of secured consumer credit, to finance items such as cars and furniture,
which involves the borrower repaying over a number of years.
Income protection insurance - ✔✔-A policy that allows people to manage the risk of loss of earnings
over a long term. It pays out a monthly income to insured people who have suffered an accidental injury
or long-term illness and who are therefore unable to work.
, Individual savings account (ISA) - ✔✔-An account that pays interest tax-free on savings up to a certain
level. In 2014 the rules were changed, with a higher limit on the amount that can be saved tax free.
Savers can choose to save the entire amount in cash, or in stocks and shares, or in a mixture of the two.
Inflation - ✔✔-A general rise in prices, which means that the purchasing power of money falls.
Insolvency - ✔✔-A situation in which a person cannot repay what they owe because their debts are
greater than their assets.
Insurance - ✔✔-Products that give financial protection against certain events. For example, someone
who has travel insurance might be able to claim back the cost of a holiday if they have to cancel through
illness.
Investments - ✔✔-Money paid into financial products; the aim is that the value of the product will grow
over time and so the person will eventually receive back more money than they paid in. Investments are
a way of saving over the medium or long term.
Mandatory expenditure - ✔✔-Compulsory outgoings; they do not necessarily apply to everyone but if
they do apply, they must be paid.
Money-purchase pension scheme - ✔✔-A pension scheme in which the value of the fund available at
retirement is based on the contributions made by an employee (and their employer, in workplace
schemes), which are invested. Also known as defined-contribution schemes.
Mortgage - ✔✔-A loan taken out to pay for a property, usually over a long term such as 25 years.
Mortgage payment protection insurance - ✔✔-An insurance policy intended to cover mortgage
payments in the event of illness or unemployment.
National Insurance contributions - ✔✔-Money deducted from the pay of people who are employed or
self-employed and used by the government to fund state pensions and other benefits.
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