Your Financial Mastery: Financial Literacy for the Real World

Designed to quickly integrate financial literacy into the college classroom, the Your Financial Mastery curriculum enables instructors to easily facilitate student learning using step-by-step instructions, to establish the essential personal finance competencies necessary for students to achieve lifelong financial wellness.

Using a highly interactive “flipped classroom” model, the innovative curriculum meets all Financial Education Core Competencies set by the Department of Treasury for Financial Literacy as well as all personal finance benchmarks set by the Institute of Financial Literacy.

Textbook topics include:

• Budgeting & Banking
• Financial Statements
• Credit, Credit Cards & Debt
• Personal Loans, Automobiles & Home Ownership
• College Funding & Investing Basics
• Bonds, Stocks, Mutual Funds & Other Investments
• Real Estate & Entrepreneurship
• Retirement Planning & Insurance
• Taxes and much more

The learning experience is enhanced by a powerful online companion website with student and administrator resources supporting this financial literacy textbook / workbook. Articles, calculators, printable exercises and tests, infographics, and videos reinforce each personal finance topic and further promote engagement and interaction within and outside the classroom. The companion website accompanies the Your Financial Mastery: The Instructor's Guide (purchased separately; please contact Jennifer Kelly at busdev@iGrad.com).

This groundbreaking curriculum is the collaborative outcome of iGrad, the financial literacy platform that recently won the prestigious Educational Program of the Year Award (EIFLE), and best-selling authors Sharon Lechter (Rich Dad, Poor Dad series) and Angela Totman of Pay Your Family First!

Editorial Reviews

My students loved it! One excellent outcome was that the class facilitated needed dialog with our students.

Bryant Anderson

Senior Director of Student Services

Illinois College of Optometry

"Financial literacy is an important topic that has gained much attention in recent years due to national economic concerns, escalating college costs, and increased student borrowing. iGrad is an excellent financial literacy resource that can be easily integrated into high school and/or post-secondary course curriculum, workshops, and career education."

Ron Radney

Director of Financial Aid

Calfornia State University, Bakersfield

"I am impressed with the depth and breadth of the topics and coverage of the book. I am confident that anyone using this book will be far better prepared for their financial futures as a result."

Scott B. Johnson

Program Coordinator

Illinois Online Network, University of Illinois

About iGrad
iGrad is an educational partner to more than 600 college and universities nationwide, providing a financial literacy platform that connects more than 1.2 million students, alumni and staff. iGrad has won several awards for its innovative and highly effective approach to financial literacy.

• 2013 Outstanding Consumer Information Award, Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education
• 2013 Education Program of the Year, The Institute for Financial Literacy
• 2014 Best Product, University Business magazine
• 2015 University of Illinois adopts the Your Financial Mastery textbook for 8-week facilitator led financial literacy teacher certification course
• 2015 “Education Program of the Year” Excellence in Financial Literacy Education (EIFLE) Award for Your Financial Mastery Curriculum

Sharon Lechter, CPA, CGMA, is the founder of Pay Your Family First, coauthor of the international blockbuster Rich Dad Poor Dad series, and author of bestselling titles, Three Feet from Gold, Outwitting the Devil and Think and Grow Rich for Women.

Sharon is a financial expert with an unmatched passion for financial literacy. For over 30 years she has inspired individuals and businesses across the globe to achieve financial wellness. Recognized globally as an expert in personal finance, entrepreneurship, publishing and leadership, she remains one of the industry’s chief pioneers in developing effective technologies, programs and products to support success in personal finance.

A member of the first President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, Sharon served both President Bush and President Obama, advising them on the need for financial literacy and was appointed to the National CPA Financial Literacy Commission as a national spokesperson on the topic of financial education. In 2013 she was instrumental in the passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1449, requiring that financial literacy remain within economics standards and creating a separate statute for those concepts.

Angela Totman, Vice President and COO at Pay Your Family First, is a Certified Personal and Family Finance Educator dedicated to driving programs that change participants' lives and nurturing partnerships with individuals and organizations that share in Pay Your Family First's passion for financial literacy.