MyBOC: A Smart Start to Smarter Banking.
At Bank of Commerce, being your bank is a lot more than a place to keep your money. It’s helping you be smarter about your finances.
Below are resources we have hand picked that will help you better manage and understand your finances.
Balance your Account
Follow these simple instructions and use this handy online form to successfully balance your account.
Go to http://mappingyourfuture.org/Money/checkbook.htm
Budget Calculator
Use this online form to understand what goes into a budget and then quickly calculate a monthly budget.
Go to http://mappingyourfuture.org/money/budgetcalculator.htm
College Planning
This handy site is great for college planning, and it’s extremely useful at any age, since it offers tips for Elementary, Middle, High School and College years.
Go to http://mappingyourfuture.org/MiddleHighSchool/
Credit Cards & Students
Start out money smart with these tips to use credit wisely.
Go to http://mappingyourfuture.org/money/creditcards.htm
Parents – this site is for you
You’ll find all kinds of information related to your child’s success – in school, financially, and after graduation.
Go to http://mappingyourfuture.org/parents
Savings Goal Calculator
Use this quick calculator to determine how long it will take you to save toward your goal.
Go to http://mappingyourfuture.org/money/save.htm
Show me the future
Play this futuristic game to find out if you can make the right choices in the ‘real’ world! Fill in fictional information about yourself and your highest level of school completed, and the game gives you an identity with a probable salary, which you get to move through life.
Go to http://showmethefuture.org/game/index.cfm
Teen Business Link
Interested in starting your own business? Find out all you need to know from the Small Business Administration (SBA).
Go to http://archive.sba.gov/teens/ideas.html
Help with your Homework
With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance to history, Khan Academy helps you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace. And they have a complete section devoted to Banking and Money.
Go to http://khanacademy.org
Financial Education from the FDIC
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has developed a special section on their website called Money Smart that is dedicated to helping people learn about finances. It is specially geared to people with no banking experience.
Go to http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/moneysmart/index.html
You Can Deal With It
You CAN make sense of the complicated world of student aid. Need to pay for college but don’t know where to begin? You’ve come to the right place. Student aid is available to help you cover school-related expenses. Take a few minutes and get to know the basics:
http://www.youcandealwithit.com/borrowers/student-aid-101/index.shtml
