A Fighting Chance: The High School Finance Education Everyone Deserves

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Tellwell Talent, Jan 28, 2021 - Business & Economics - 178 pages

A Fighting Chance was created to address the lack of financial literacy in high school curriculums around the world, leaving young people unequipped to manage their finances as they enter the work world. As youth enter their financial lives, it is critical that they have the foundational knowledge and tools to make sound financial decisions that build wealth through measured risk-taking and financial strategy. Written by an award winning Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant, the book is written in an approachable unintimidating tone and provides real examples, tactics and mindsets which allow young readers to harness their most valuable financial asset: time. A Fighting Chance provides readers with a financial guidebook for their life that will allow them to create and execute a plan that allows them to accomplish both their financial and non-financial goals.

About the author (2021)

Doug Allan holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University with a Major in Accounting and Finance. He graduated with Honours before beginning his studies toward becoming a professional accountant. Doug became a CPA in 2011, graduating in the top 1% of his class in Canada and as valedictorian in his home province of British Columbia. He spent the first eight years of his career with a big four accounting firm before moving into commercial real estate development and investment. Doug also has served as a board director for not-for-profit and for-profit entities. Awarded CPA British Columbia's Early Achievement Award in 2019, Doug is working as Vice President, Finance & Operations for a commercial real estate investment firm. Doug is married with two wonderful kids.

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