Managing Your Personal Finances

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While focusing on the student’s role as citizen, student, family member, consumer, and active participant in the business world, Managing Your Personal Finances 6E informs students of their various financial responsibilities. This comprehensive text provides opportunities for self-awareness, expression, and satisfaction in a highly technical and competitive society. Students discover new ways to maximize their earning potential, develop strategies for managing their resources, explore skills for the wise use of credit, and gain insight into the different ways of investing money. Written specifically for high school students, special sections in each chapter hold student interest by focusing on current trends and issues consumers face in the marketplace. more info

Set Your House in Order Software to Organize

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Life just got a whole lot easier. Introducing Set Your House in Order, today’s most effective solution for storing, maintaining, and retrieving the critical pieces of personal information that define your life. This software allows you to gather and maintain your important estate documents in one secure location and prepares you and your family for emergencies. more info

Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s

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Worried about your financial future? Living paycheck to paycheck? Find it hard to save money? The Everything Personal Finance Book in Your 20s and 30s Book, 2nd Edition makes saving for the future easy. This updated edition provides step-by-step instructions on how to:

• Budget scarce funds
• Recover from credit card debt
• Pay off student loans
• Plan for large purchases
• Build an emergency fund

You’ll also find information on affordable insurance protection, the most useful (and free) online personal finance resources and tools, and how to use tax breaks to help pay for education. With this easy-to-use guide, you’ll learn how to manage, save, and invest wisely-starting today! more info

Get a Financial Life Personal Finance In Your

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“A highly readable and substantial guide to the grown-up realms of money and business.” —Deborah Stead, The New York Times,

If you’ve been meaning to get your finances in shape but have no idea where to start, this is your playbook: The all-new edition of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life busts open the system, teaching tricks for becoming master of your own money universe. No matter what’s happening in the economy, all the guidance you need is right here. You’ll learn how to:

• Pay off your credit cards and student loans and live debt free

• Start saving, even if you’re living paycheck to paycheck

• Take advantage of the latest tax rules and save a bundle

• Find smart investments while still supporting socially responsible companies

• Come up with a down payment and buy a home, even in a tough economy

• Afford grad school

• Protect yourself from identity theft

And you’ll discover why a 401(k) is your best friend—even if the market is tanking.

From tracking your spending to finding deals on insurance to navigating the new world of homebuying, this easy-to-understand, comprehensive guide provides an up-to-date road map of the world of personal finance. Whether you earn $30,000 or $300,000, are single or married, are drowning in debt or just looking for ways to keep your savings secure in uncertain times, you’ll find the answers you need in Get a Financial Life.

“A daring book. . . . A life’s worth of smart financial advice.” —Newsweek

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Managing Your Money AllInOne For Dummies For Dummies

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Want to take control of your finances once and for all? Managing Your Money All-in-One For Dummies combines expert money management with personal finance tips. From credit cards and insurance to taxes, investing, retirement, and more, seven mini-books show you how to improve your relationship with money — no matter your age or stage of life.

This easy-to-understand guide shows you how to assess your financial situation, calculate debt, prepare a budget, trim spending, boost your income, and improve your credit score. You’ll find ways to run a money-smart household, reduce waste, and cut medical and transportation expenses as you tackle your debt head-on and develop good saving habits. You’ll even get help choosing the right mortgage and avoiding foreclosure, saving for college or retirement, and determining your home-, car-, and life insurance needs. Discover how to:

• Take charge of your finances
• Manage home and personal finances
• Lower your taxes and avoid tax audits
• Plan a budget and scale back on expenses
• Deal with debt and negotiate with creditors
• Save and invest safely for college or retirement
• Protect your money and assets from fraud and identity theft
• Ensure a comfortable retirement
• Plan your estate and safeguard a will or trust

Managing Your Money All-in-One For Dummies brings you seven great books for the price of one. Can you think of a better way to start managing your money wisely? more info

Organize Your Personal Finances In No Time

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Unclutter your pile of bills in a day!

Can you imagine your desk completely clear of stacks of bills and receipts? Would you like to know that your checking account balance is correct? Are you interested in avoiding $15, $25 and $35 late fees that are applied when you’re just one day late with payments?

Organize Your Personal Finances In No Time offers today’s time-crunched individuals easy, practical solutions to accomplish financial organization. Author Debbie Stanley, National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) member and conference speaker, makes a career of managing chronically disorganized clients, leading them into organizational bliss. The book takes a project-based approach to breaking apart the steps needed to achieve order in your personal finances and teaches you multiple options to managing finances including online, electronic, and paper-based systems.

With quick, easy projects, you’ll discover many ways to manage your personal finances including:

How to set up a foolproof system for collecting receipts and ATM slips. How to set up a bill paying system and avoid late fees and overdrafts. Learning the ruthless rules for managing mail. Choosing your paper organization method – even going paperless. Shopping smart. Advanced number crunching techniques – measuring your net worth, P&L, savings and more. No time to figure it all out? Let Organize Your Personal Finances In No Time be your first step to getting it all together. more info