Guide to Your Financial Life
WSJ Week #8     Name

Click on one of the letter buttons to select your chosen answer for each question
Retirement, Stock Options, Other Benefits and Income Taxes

1. Diversified mutual funds that may own stocks, bonds, and cash in a mix aimed at the
      long term is called a
       Conglomerate Fund
       Life-Cycle Fund
       Hedge Fund
       Venture Capital Fund

2. If your total tax deductions are greater than the standard deduction allowed by
      the Internal Revenue Service then you can do this
       Use a Schedule C
       Petition for an Exception
       Itemize Deductions
       Extend the Exemptions

3. Named for the provision of the tax code that allowed retirement contributions to be
      made before taxes, thses company-sponsored plans allow you to make pretax contributions
      toward your retirment and allow the investments to grow tax-deferred until you reach retirement
      are. They are called
       357(m)
       666(b)
       401(k)
       221(b)

4. An employer-sponsored retirement-savings account funded with money on which you have
      already paid the taxes is a
       Roth 401(k)
       Hatch 403(k)
       Obama 402(k)
       Bush 405(k)

5. A tax-favored account for retirment savings that you establish outside of
      your employer is called
       a Tax-free Retirement Account
       a Tax-defered Retirement Account
       an Individual Retirement Account
       a Proprietary Account

6. The price at which a stock option can be exercised is the
       Hit Price
       Strike Price
       Home Price
       Base Price

7. The process udner which employees receive benefits over a period of time is called
       Vesting
       Collaring
       Button-Holing
       Backing

8. Terms used to describe a situation where you own more on something than it is
      now worth are
       Underwater
       Either of these
       Upside Down
       Neither of these

9. A person who manages assets for the benefit of someone else and who is required to put
      that person's interests above his or her own is called
       a Broker
       a Financial Planner
       a Fiduciary
       a Financial Middleman

10. All of your income from work, investments, and other sources before any
      taxes or deductions on your tax return is called
       Gross Income
       Total Income
       Income Subject to Taxes
       Adjusted Income for Tax Purposes

11. Items that help reduce the income tax you owe by reducing your taxable income are called
       Deductions
       Exclusions
       Itemizations
       Dependents

12. The primary tax form for filing federal income taxes is the
       920
       1000
       1120
       1040

13. The Adjusted Gross Income includes all of the following EXCEPT
       interest
       dividends
       wages
       standard deduction

14. A deduction available to all taxpayers that reduces the amount of which you pay federal
      income taxes is the
       Exemptions Deduction
       Itemized Deduction
       Standard Deduction
       Normalized Deduction

Copyright 2012 © Gaylen K. Bunker, All rights reserved