Modern adult life revolves around monumental purchases such as a house, a car, and a deluge of other items that almost universally require entering a formal interest bearing debt obligation. As such, understanding the governing mathematical equations that dictate these interest bearing debts is critical to a practical education. This book intends to provide a basic mathematical understanding of the underlying rules of interest bearing debt taking no prior understanding of mathematics for granted. This book is tailored to take the student all the way from addition to continuous compounding...