Best of
Personal-Finance

2011

Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University


Dave Ramsey - 2011
    If you’re looking for practical information to answer all your “How?” “What?” and “Why?” questions about money, this book is for you. You’ll also learn all about insurance, mortgage options, marketing, bargain hunting and the most important element of all—giving. Now let’s be honest: This is the handbook of Financial Peace University.

Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School


Andrew Hallam - 2011
    But Andrew Hallam did so, long before the typical retirement age. And now, with Millionaire Teacher, he wants to show you how to follow in his footsteps. With lively humor and the simple clarity you'd expect from a gifted educator, Hallam demonstrates how average people can build wealth in the stock market by shunning the investment products peddled by most financial advisors and avoiding the get-rich-quicker products concocted by an ever widening, self-serving industry.Using low cost index funds, coupled with a philosophy in line with the one that made Warren Buffett a multi-billionaire, Hallam guides readers to understand how the stock and bond markets really work, arming you with a psychological advantage for when markets fall.Shows why young investors should hope for stock market crashes if they want to get rich Explains how you can spend just 60 minutes a year on your investments, never open a financial paper, avoid investment news, and still leave most professional investors in the dust Promotes a unique new investment methodology that combines low cost index funds and a Warren Buffett-esque investment philosophy Millionaire Teacher explains how any middle-income individual can learn can learn the ABCs of personal finance and become a multi-millionaire, from a schoolteacher who has been there and done that.

The One Week Budget: Learn to Create Your Money Management System in 7 Days or Less!


Tiffany Aliche - 2011
    The One Week Budget is for anyone that wants to manage their day-to-day money without the day-to-day hassle. Does this sound like you? What are you waiting for? Read the book already! Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche

Financial Fitness Forever: 5 Steps to More Money, Less Risk, and More Peace of Mind


Paul A. Merriman - 2011
    In order to build and maintain a solid portfolio in today's roller-coaster investing climate, you have to be more alert, increasingly proactive, and better educated on the markets than ever before.In Financial Fitness Forever, Paul Merriman gives you a framework guaranteed to return even the most struggling portfolio to prime health. One of the nation's most popular investment advisors, Merriman has you focus on five critical questions:Should I use a financial advisor or go it alone? Should I try to beat the market or accept market returns?How should I manage risk?How should I diversify my investments?How should I separate my investments from my emotions?If you don't have solid, well-developed answers based on sound investing principles, you need to review your current strategy. Financial Fitness Forever leads you through the process step-by step. Merriman provides detailed answers to each question, all of which combine to form a powerful strategy that will ensure the kind of retirement you're hoping for.Merriman doesn't claim to have the "magic bullet" answer to supercharging profits in unpredictable markets. Instead, he provides a commonsense strategy anyone can use to secure his or her fi nances now and in the future.The economy is racing forward at breakneck speed, and no one knows where it will end up. By applying the lessons learned in Financial Fitness Forever, you can design a portfolio that will thrive in the long run.Paul Merriman is one really smart guy, but more than that, he is wise. And in investment counseling, I'll take wise over smart any day. He has spent a lifetime learning the techniques that make him an outstanding teacher of investing. Now it's your turn to benefit from his knowledge. Make the most of it.--KNIGHT KIPLINGER, Editor in Chief, Kiplinger Publications"No one understands what it takes to be a successful investor better than Paul Merriman. If you want to build a winning portfolio for life, this is the book to read."--BILL SCHULTHEIS, author, The Coffeehouse Investor"This is the ultimate strategy for America's Main Street investors. If your goal is to beat guys like Buffett, avoid future pitfalls, and retire comfortably, this is a must-read."--PAUL B. FARRELL, columnist, Dow Jones/MarketWatch.com, and author, The Winning Portfolio and The Millionaire Code"A wonderful book! Paul explains simply and clearly how each of us can take personal responsibility for our financial futures by creating a comprehensive plan based on discipline and diversification."--ALAN MULALLY, president and CEO, Ford Motor Company"Using stories and analogies drawn from his decades of experience, Merriman provides a road map with simple but sound advice for a financially fit future."--LARRY SWEDROE, principal, The Buckingham Family of Financial Services, and author, The Quest for Alpha"Paul Merriman is a competitor of mine, and I can think of no finer compliment than that, after forty years in the business, I have learned to be a better investor and manager from reading Paul's work."--JOE SHAEFER, president, Stanford Wealth Management, and publisher, Investor's Edge newsletter"Financial Fitness Forever shows just how simple it can be to invest successfully and enjoy the future of your dreams."--ALLAN ROTH, CBS MoneyWatch, and author, How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street

Independent Contractor, Sole Proprietor, and LLC Taxes Explained in 100 Pages or Less


Mike Piper - 2011
    Find all of the following, explained in plain-English with no legal jargon:Business Taxation 101: A brief primer on tax topics in general, especially as they apply to businesses.Home Office Deduction: How to ensure you qualify for it and how to calculate it.Estimated Tax payments: When and how to pay them, as well as an easy way to calculate each payment.Self-Employment Tax: What it is, why it exists, and how to calculate it.Business Retirement Plans: What the different types are, and which one is best for you.Numerous Business Deductions: Several deductions explained in detail, including how to make sure you can qualify to take them and how to maximize them.Audit Protection: Learn what records you need to keep (and how long to keep them) in order to protect yourself in case of an audit.

Fixing The Money Thing


Gary Keesee - 2011
    In other words: Get ready to Fix The Money Thing! In Fixing The Money Thing, you'll discover no matter how bad your situation seems, it's fixable, the wealth secret the money changers don't want you to know, Gary's five proven Get Out Of Debt Rules, how to find the overlooked money fragments that are the key to your freedom, practical strategies for restructuring your debt, buying smarter, and finding money, and much more...

The Rich-Dad-Poor Dad Mindset


Larry Hall - 2011
    It is about creating a mindset of positive values that allow you to perceive your life as one of abundance, not one of deficit. It teaches you to flip your mental attitude coin from negative to positive and appreciate how much you have in yourbr/life to be grateful for.br/br/However, it does not suggest that our gratitude should cause us to stop striving for more and just accept our lot in life; rather it teaches quite the opposite: that by acknowledging how abundant our lives are already, our minds will embrace the concept that the good things in life are potentially unlimited.br/br/Abundant means to be richly supplied; to be over-supplied. This means that we should have no fear of asking for more because we can be confident inbr/its delivery. Abundance is a store that never runs out of its goods.br/br/Abundant thinking is not just concerned with money, although there is a strong financial aspect that can be applied; it is a life philosophy.

Dollars & Uncommon Sense: Basic Training for Your Money


Steve Repak - 2011
    Most people also live paycheck to paycheck, have sleepless nights worrying about debt, and are not saving enough. In DOLLARS AND UNCOMMON SENSE former US Army Sergeant and Certified Financial Planner, Steve Repak outlines a strategy to change your misguided common sense ideas about savings and learn to think like a true builder of wealth. Steve served 12 years in the Army, racking up $32,000 in debt while he was there. He then drew on his military experience and put his own finances through boot camp. Not only did he get out of debt, but Steve Repak went on to help others do the same. Repak serves as your drill sergeant for your fiscal transformation in this ground breaking new book to show you why-and how-to use uncommon sense to get back on track. Steve has been a guest on Fox and Friends, 700 Club, Fox Business & Bloomberg Radio. Steve has been featured in BusinessWeek, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, and Investor’s Business Daily.

From Debt to Riches: Steps to Financial Success


Phumelele Ndumo - 2011
    With simple tips and tricks, this book will help reader achieve financial success.

The Financial Times Guide to Wealth Management: How to Plan, Invest and Protect Your Financial Assets


Jason Butler - 2011
    Whether you want to do it yourself, or get an overview of the basics so you can understand the experts, this book gives you the answers. Up to date with all the latest changes to UK pension, tax and legal rules, it covers everything you need to know in one easy to read guide.

Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education


Robert T. Kiyosaki - 2011
    Readers are advised to stop blindly accepting that they are ‘disadvantaged’ people with limited options. They are encouraged to act beyond their concept of limited options and challenge the preconception that they will struggle financially all of their lives. Robert’s fresh approach to his time-tested messages includes clear, actionable steps that any individual or family can take, starting with education. Education becomes applied knowledge, a powerful tactic with measurable results.In true Rich Dad style, readers will be challenged to understand two points of view, and experience how financial knowledge is their unfair advantage.Why do the rich get richer even in a financial crisis? In his new book, An Unfair Advantage, Robert confirms his message and challenges readers to change their context and act in a new way. Readers are advised to stop blindly accepting that they are ‘disadvantaged’ people with limited options and challenge the notion that they will struggle, financially, all their lives. What does school teach you about money? In most cases, the answer is “Not much.” If there is any financial education, the courses are taught by financial planners and bankers… the agents of Wall Street and the big banks, the very people that caused and profited from the financial crisis.This book is about real financial education. This book is about how debt and taxes make the rich richer &hellip and why debt and taxes makes the poor and middle class struggle. This book explains why the rich get richer, paying less in taxes, while the middle class shrinks &mdash with many losing jobs, homes, and retirement &mdash and paying more in taxes. This book is about the five unfair advantages a real financial education offers. The Unfair Advantage of Knowledge The Unfair Advantage of Taxes The Unfair Advantage of Debt The Unfair Advantage of Risk The Unfair Advantage of CompensationThese five unfair advantages are the outcomes of real financial education.

Financial Recovery: Developing a Healthy Relationship with Money


Karen McCall - 2011
    It will help you make a fundamental shift in the way you understand and behave around money.Financial Recovery presents a simple system that enables you to discover your underlying attitudes about money — often the cause of self-defeating money behaviors such as overspending, chronic debt, underearning, and low or no savings — and provides the tools, strategies, and support to achieve financial well-being.Karen McCall has more than twenty years of experience counseling people from all walks of life — people with millions of dollars, people with very little, and people whose means are somewhere in between. Financial Recovery will help you develop, and then maintain, full awareness of your spending, earning, and saving activities. It offers strategies for adapting your behavior to meet your most compelling needs, whatever your means. You can start right away using the resources you already have to create a stable and fulfilling relationship with money.

No Rich Dad No Poor Dad How about a Good Mentor!: Four Steps That Will Change Your Life Forever


Bruce Goldwell - 2011
    Bruce shares with readers 4 steps that will change their life forever. Also available on Amazon Kindle under the Title "Four Magic Principles" That Can Change Your Life Starting Now.