Correct! Beyond basic questions, the best way to answer a reader’s request for detailed financial advice is to suggest that they seek out an adviser.

Correct! This is used to determine your taxable income.

Correct! Taking courses will give you a firm foundation in personal finance, but as a reporter it is still not your job to give advice to people for their specific situations.

Correct! You will lose your reader with numbers and statistics that you don’t explain in context.

Correct! It’s best to leave individual tax planning to tax advisers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t write stories about how tax changes will affect your readers.

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Correct! Even years after a financial crisis has transpired, many consumers feel that the recovery has passed them by when economists declare the market “recovered.”

Correct! Stockbrokers and investment advisors are regulated by different standards.