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The book is organized around such topics as the following: A crash course on budgeting
Learning how to borrow
Financing your dream car
Understanding real estate price swings
Estimating the amount of insurance to purchase
Can you trust predictions of stock market gurus?
Can you afford to invest in unit trusts?
On becoming a venture catalyst
Are collectibles an investment?
How to pay less income tax
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Managing Your Money: Everything You Need to Know about Your Personal Finance, Revised Edition

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My dad, Silas Baker, has always been my entrepreneur and financial inspiration. In 1938, after marrying my mother, Lucille, on Christmas eve, with only the change in his pockets and a prayer on his lips, he left the red dirt cotton fields of Huntsville, Alabama and moved north to Nashville, Tennessee. He was 19 and my mother was only 17. Dad had an uncanny ability to maintain his focus even when everyone around him lost his or hers. In more than 50 years as th… More >>

Pocket Change And A Prayer: That’s ALL you need To get started

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In today’s uncertain economy, smart financial management is more important than ever. With Essential: Money, you can devise the strategic plan for building and maintaining wealth that works best for you. Addressing budgets, investment advice, taxes, retirement planning, and more, this forthright and informative primer serves as the ultimater financial planner, allowing you to realize short-term financial goals even as you plan for long-term gains. Featuring easy-to-… More >>

Essential: Money — Everything You Need to Manage Your Personal Finances Wisely

Businesses are an important economic pipeline for the United States just as they are in other countries. The way a business tracks their finances and reports their profits effects the way the economy grows or shrinks because the money that a business makes is circulated through all walks of life. Companies like Enron, WorldCom, Freddie Mac and others who make bad business accounting decisions shake the economy at its foundation and destroy the lives of investors who help to make our economy whole. Business accounting is a way for firms to account for profits and losses they have sustained.

Executive level pay is based upon company performance. If the performance of a company is not reported in a proper manner, executives make money that far exceeds what the business is capable of and creates a false picture of a company’s performance. This false reporting causes the stock market to balloon by rewarding stock to companies who do not deserve it, and these methods have a bad effect on our economy. Business accounting that honor the GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practices) creates a transparent persona, an air of trust and respect, from the users of their financial statements.

Many smaller businesses, especially those that are not publicly traded, do not use the GAAP for their business accounting methods because they do not see the need to disclose their financial statements. This decision allows for discrepancies and inaccuracies in financial reporting, and users of these financial statements should make it a point to ask whether companies are using GAAP in their business accounting. Maintaining the proper financial books is important to the structure of a business. Business accounting books provide a way to determine how to make businesses more profitable by increasing certain kinds of production or cutting costs to save money in the future.

The success of a business depends greatly on the ability to be fair in accounting practices and keeping proper books. Adhering to guidelines that ensure a business is being upfront about what they are reporting gives a business credibility and ensures that their gains are genuine. It is responsible to hire professionals that are capable of adhering to those GAAP guidelines instead of using short-cuts or cutting corners in business accounting practices because the attention to detail shows integrity. Both larger businesses and smaller businesses alike can offer financial statements that provide an appropriate picture of their profits and losses by following the GAAP.

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From their first job to their retirement years, women face unique challenges when it comes to managing their money. Because women play so many different roles — and sometimes leave the workforce to raise children and care for family members – they need specific financial advice tailored to each stage of life. In her new book, Kiplinger’s Money Smart Women – Everything You Need to Know to Achieve a Lifetime of Financial Security, Janet Bodnar, wife, mother a… More >>

Kiplinger’s Money Smart Women: Everything You Need to Know to Acheive a Lifetime of Financial Security