Title: It's Your Paycheck, Lesson 3: Cash the Check and Track the Dough
Course: Tennessee Personal Finance Sample Syllabus > Section: Standard 3: Planning & Money Management

Students participate in an activity to learn about checking accounts, savings accounts and check cashing services. Students learn the components of a check, and they organize and enter information into an account register - in order to determine the balance. Students learn why maintaining account records is important. Students balance a monthly account statement.