Business Courses

Personal Finance & Stewardship

This course provides students the skills needed to avoid debt like the plague, budget with intention, invest, and build & steward wealth. Biblical tools and knowledge will be taught through teacher lectures, videos, class discussions, team projects, homework assignments and tests. All these ways of teaching a student will help them learn and bring this curriculum to life in their everyday financial decisions. This class will change the financial future of students and set them on a path to win with money.

In this course, emphasis is placed on five major units: 1) introduction to personal finance; 2) savings; 3) budgeting; 4) credit and debt; and 5) investing for retirement.

Additional Course Details

  • Students will be required to open their own checking and savings account.
  • Students will create a budget & track their own expenses using spreadsheets and budgeting mobile app.
  • This course is a DECA approved course.


Course Number 0901
Grade Level 9,10,11,12 
Pre-Requisite None
Application and/or Audition Date None
Credits 10
VCHS Graduation Credit Elective
UC Approval Yes Area G (General Elective-Interdisciplinary)
Fees $75 Curriculum Fee (includes textbook)