¶ … working on financial practice problems can help students to apply key concepts and principles. Understanding various financial practice problems will help all students to ensure that they have a foundation for knowing how money and the world of finance works. This is important because, it will serve as foundation that will allow everyone to be prepared for: objectively evaluating their business, personal finances and investments. Once this takes place, it means that we can make more prudent financial decision by: avoiding common mistakes. As, these tools will help everyone in: identifying potential frauds and it will give us a sense of reality. This is the point that these ideas will prevent us from making critical errors that could have a dramatic impact upon: our net worth and the kinds of decisions that will have an effect on our future.

A good example of individuals who were never able to learn this lesson are those people who were the clients of Bernie Madoff. Prior to the discovery of this Ponzi scheme...

Evidence of this can be seen by looking no further than the fact that: he served as the chairman of the NASDAQ stock market. What made him so convincing for many affluent investors was that they were often referred to him by: various individuals that they met during a number of social events (i.e. cocktail parties). ("Madoff Used Multiple Compliance Techniques," 2010) ("The Madoff Affair," 2009)
During the 18 years that the fraud was occurring, these affluent investors would show how they were making better returns than the average money manager on Wall Street. This is despite the fact that Madoff only was taking on clients through referrals. At the same time, investors were forbidden from: questioning his activities and various mutual funds could not disclose the fact that he was one of the money managers they were using. ("Madoff Used Multiple Compliance Techniques," 2010) ("The Madoff Affair," 2009)

For most people, this seemed…