{"id":2583,"date":"2020-08-25T20:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-financialaccounting\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2583"},"modified":"2020-11-22T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T20:34:24","slug":"introduction-to-financing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/chapter\/introduction-to-financing-the-future\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Financing the Future","rendered":"Introduction to Financing the Future"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: use your knowledge of accounting to finance your retirement and leave a legacy for your loved ones<\/h2>\r\nIdeally, you won\u2019t have to work for your whole life. At some point, you\u2019ll want to retire, to kick back, maybe travel a little. To do that, you\u2019ll need to start planning and saving now. That means it\u2019s time to develop a basic understanding of money, investing, and how you can kick your savings accounts into gear so that they grow faster than inflation.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s move ahead so that you can gain a more detailed understanding of how to use your knowledge of accounting to fund a comfortable standard of living in your post-working years and to provide for your family even after you are gone.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: use your knowledge of accounting to finance your retirement and leave a legacy for your loved ones<\/h2>\n<p>Ideally, you won\u2019t have to work for your whole life. At some point, you\u2019ll want to retire, to kick back, maybe travel a little. To do that, you\u2019ll need to start planning and saving now. That means it\u2019s time to develop a basic understanding of money, investing, and how you can kick your savings accounts into gear so that they grow faster than inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s move ahead so that you can gain a more detailed understanding of how to use your knowledge of accounting to fund a comfortable standard of living in your post-working years and to provide for your family even after you are gone.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2583\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Financing the Future. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Joseph Cooke. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Financing the Future\",\"author\":\"Joseph Cooke\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2583","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":2570,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2583\/revisions\/6464"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/2570"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2583\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-clinton-financialaccounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}