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Personal Financial Management (FI 121)

Designed to allow students to develop a framework for planning and implementing a lifetime finance program. Investigates alternative personal financial decisions with a view toward optimizing personal wealth and creating more informed consumers. Students develop a personal financial plan. Topics include personal budgeting and planning and investment decisions with respect to education, automobiles, houses, securities, health and property insurance, retirement needs, and estate planning.

Open to all majors as a general elective. Does not fulfill course requirements for the finance concentration. 

Faculty biography

Mr. Scott Emge is an accomplished accounting and finance executive with more than 25 years of experience working in various senior level consulting and corporate finance roles. His primary teaching interests are corporate finance and valuation. Mr. Emge graduated with a B.S. in Accounting from Towson University and earned his MBA in Finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland College Park. Mr. Emge holds an active Certified Public Accountant license in the state of Maryland, is a Certified Financial Planner and is currently a Level 3 exam candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst program. 

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Mentor biography

Ellie Kenny holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UVA.  She received a Masters in Liberal Studies from Loyola in 2019.  She has worked in Athletics at Loyola University for 13 years. 

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FI 121 counts as an elective for all students.