Take My Liberty BUSI 223 Class

Liberty's catalog lists budgets, borrowing, stock ownership, savings, real estate as an investment and related tax matters among the topics of BUSI 223.

The published guide follows Billingsley's sections in a practical order. Week one sets out the planning process, personal financial statements and budgets. Week two finishes budgeting, with eight short presentations and two readings. Week three covers cash management and savings.

Week four covers buying cars and homes and using credit. Week five covers income taxes. Week six covers life, health and property insurance. Week seven covers investing, stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Week eight covers retirement and estate planning.

Forums worth 40 points each fall in weeks one, three, five and seven. Exercises worth 50 points and quizzes worth 35 fall in every week.

The even-numbered weeks bring a 30-point Biblical Response and a 10-point branching problem.

Weekly exercises are the largest block at 400 points, quizzes add 280, forums 160, Biblical Responses 120, branching problems 40 and the checklist 10, for 1,010.

Your section's Canvas calendar governs if it differs from the guide.

BUSI 223 is taken week by week, because something is due in every one of them. The plan marks which items are written and which are graded inside the platform.

Forum threads apply the week's sections to a realistic household. A forum on budgeting might build a simple monthly plan for a young family; one on taxes might compare the standard deduction with itemizing for a homeowner; one on investing might explain why a diversified index fund suits a beginner.

Every number in a forum is shown with its method, and replies follow classmates' posts.

Biblical Responses connect the week's topic to Scripture, for example Proverbs on debt in the credit week or the parable of the talents in the investing week, and explain how the principle shapes a financial decision.

Exercises in many sections are completed inside the publisher's platform, and those stay with you. Where your section posts an exercise as a written worksheet or short analysis to upload, it can be prepared and checked.

Quizzes and branching problems are yours in every section.

Each written item reaches you before its deadline, and you post or submit it yourself.

BUSI 223 is assigned to a writer with a finance degree who has worked in financial planning, banking, credit counseling or tax preparation.

That experience gives the forums the practical detail personal finance rewards: how a credit score is built, what a reasonable emergency fund looks like, how an employer match changes retirement savings.

Calculations, from net worth and budget ratios to loan payments and tax estimates, are checked by a second reviewer.

Biblical Responses are written by writers comfortable with Scripture who keep the response tied to the finance topic rather than drifting into general reflection.

Your identity rests with the coordinator alone, and Canvas access is never part of the arrangement.

Your own accounts never need to appear in a post. Examples use a realistic household unless you choose to supply details.

If a concept is confusing before a quiz, such as how compound interest grows, the coordinator can return a short worked example.

The first problem is frequency. With an exercise and a quiz every week and a forum or Biblical Response on top, there is no week to catch up.

The second is numbers. Students from non-business majors often find loan, tax and investment calculations unfamiliar, and the exercises and branching problems test them directly.

The third is the platform. Branching problems change based on your answers, so guessing early can lead down a harder path.

The fourth is the Biblical Responses, which ask for more than a verse. Rubrics want a principle explained and applied to the financial topic.

Then there is range: insurance terms one week, brokerage terms the next, each with its own jargon.

Students who take BUSI 223 alongside a heavier course often find its daily rhythm the hardest part.

The course also asks students to think about their own money, which some find uncomfortable to share in forums.

Sent to us early, the course starts with its first discussion already drafted.

Each later forum arrives two or three days before its window, and each Biblical Response a few days before the even weeks close.

Written exercises, where your section has them, arrive two days before they are due.

Your quote has a line for each forum, response and uploaded exercise; nothing scored by the platform ever appears there.

Mid-course? Only what is left gets costed.

Because writing is a smaller slice of this course than of most in the major, the figure tends to be small.

Many students keep the exercises for themselves as practice for the quizzes and hand over only the forums and Biblical Responses.