Personal Finance Fundamentals for Success
A complete digital content + courseware package for undergraduate personal finance courses that brings core content, an extensive and dynamic courseware program, adaptive and scenario-based learning, and AI-powered functionality (including grading support) into one integrated system. Includes hands‑on exercises where students plan for their own financial futures. Priced to be affordable for students.
What's Inside
Complete coverage of the undergraduate personal finance sequence. The order below is a starting point — CSePub tailors the structure, point values, and due dates to your syllabus.
Milestone projects woven through the course
- Students build their own financial statements, create personal SMART goals, and build a 12-month post-grad budget
- Students complete practice tax forms using the budget they built earlier in the course
- Buy-vs-lease car comparison
- Full home-purchase exercise with mortgage math
- Students calculate their own retirement number and build the savings plan to reach it
- Add your own! Instructors can add their own milestone projects if they'd like
How Students Learn in It
Read, then get coached
Every chapter pairs interactive content with AiMee, CSePub's built-in AI book tutor that is connected directly to the material. Students have the option to interact with AiMee to increase engagement and understanding of the material. AiMee is available 24/7.
Practice with instant feedback
Auto-graded homework after each chapter, plus cumulative reviews and practice sets. Customized to your course's needs. AI-guided reviews available for students to better understand core concepts.
Apply it to their own lives
Milestone projects, exercises, and available case studies run through the course: a real budget, real tax forms, a car decision, a home purchase, a retirement plan. Personal finance made personal.
An Ever-Current Release
The text is continuously updated, so your course reflects current rates, rules, and realities without having to wait to adopt a new edition.
The CSePub Platform
Everything around the book is built to make teaching easier.
Switching Has Never Been Easier
With the CSePub Concierge service, our development team handles the build and customization process for you based on your syllabus and course goals.
AI Support for You and Your Students
Built-in AI tools support student coaching on content and assist instructors with grading and feedback workflows without sacrificing quality.
Adaptive Learning That Reinforces Concepts
The Adaptive Learning Program (ALP) functionality uses performance data and spiraling reinforcement to strengthen comprehension and long-term retention.
Instructor Analytics That Keep You in the Know
Dashboard analytics show how your students are performing by topic, assignment, and learner.
Built Around Your Course
Every program can be tailored to your syllabus and teaching style, and seamlessly integrates with your LMS.
About the Author
Dr. Joseph Ruhland is Professor and Chair of the Department of Finance at Georgia Southern University. He holds a Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia and has taught the personal financial planning course for nearly two decades along with courses in insurance planning, retirement planning, and investments.
Before academia, he spent six years in industry as an employee benefits consultant with Hewitt Associates and Aon Consulting, and he serves as Chairman of the Board of a community credit union. His published research includes work on retirement planning instruction, and his teaching has been recognized with Georgia Southern's Dean's Citation for Student Engagement. This book brings both the classroom and the practice into one course.
Adopting Is Easy
- Request review access — free, usually within 24 hours. Explore the full course as a student would.
- We build it to your syllabus — CSePub's concierge team sets up your course structure, point values, due dates, and LMS integration.
- Students log in from any browser — no app installs, nothing to configure. And AiMee is right there with them from day one, included at no extra cost.
Reviewing now positions you for a Spring 2027 adoption — ahead of any campus textbook deadlines.