Making Your Money Work for You: How to Use Simple Investment Principles to Increase Your Wealth (Personal Finance)

Making Your Money Work for You: How to Use Simple Investment Principles to Increase Your Wealth (Personal Finance) Review

Explains in down-to-earth language the principles that underlie all investment decisions, financial and non-financial. The author shows the reader how to apply his or her experience and common sense in managing money, and where the expert fits in.

Standard & Poor's Guide to Understanding Personal Finance (Standard & Poor's Guide to)

Standard & Poor's Guide to Understanding Personal Finance (Standard & Poor's Guide to) Review

Streamlined, straightforward, and simple to read guides from Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press.

The easiest way to get a grip on personal finance, investing, and retirement

From the world's leading financial analysts and investor education specialists comes an invaluable foundation of knowledge for every kind of investment you want to make. These guides, a collaboration between Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press, use clear language and informative graphics to demystify financial topics. The books make it easy for you to navigate the financial markets and understand the basics of investing and personal finance.

This guide provides the essential information you need to manage money and make key financial decisions. From saving for college to planning for retirement, the guide provides a concise look at saving, investing, credit, home ownership, insurance, and more.

Releasing Financial Provision - Indonesian Version: Obtaining the Favor of God in your Personal & Business World (Indonesian Edition)

Releasing Financial Provision - Indonesian Version: Obtaining the Favor of God in your Personal & Business World (Indonesian Edition) Review

From the Foreword written by Jack Hayford: This book presents the real deal, because God does covenant to bless those who learn to live within His covenants and revealed principles of giving. I see the evenhanded instruction herein as providing a study that can open your life to receiving a mantle, a kind of covering or anointing, for every aspect of your life.

Personal Finance: Turning Money into Wealth- Text Only

Personal Finance: Turning Money into Wealth- Text Only Review

Description Keown is the only Personal Finance text that builds on 15 Principles to help students develop an intuitive understanding of the process of financial planning so they can use the resources learned in this course to be better financial planners. This text is written directly to the student. It teaches students how to manage their personal finances. It concentrates on the fundamentals and underlying principles of personal finance, rather than focusing on equations and specific tools which are more easily forgotten.

The Everything Start Your Own Business Book: From Financing Your Project to Making Your First Sale, All You Need to Get Your Business Off the Ground (Everything: Business and Personal Finance)

The Everything Start Your Own Business Book: From Financing Your Project to Making Your First Sale, All You Need to Get Your Business Off the Ground (Everything: Business and Personal Finance) Review

The Everything Start Your Own Business Book: From Financing Your Project to Making Your First Sale, All You Need to Get Your Business Off the Ground (Everything: Business and Personal Finance) Feature

• ISBN13: 9781593376611
• Condition: USED - Very Good
• Notes:

The Everything Start Your Own Business Book, 2nd Edition has everything you need to start your own business-and keep it running in the black. Completely updated and expertly revised by successful businesswoman Judith B. Harrington, this one-stop resource contains new information on:

Online business strategy

Critical professional associations and organizations

Regulatory pitfalls

Competitive concepts such as leased employees
Being your own boss, head cook, and bottle washer isn't easy-one in three new businesses fail the first year. With this straightforward, no-nonsense reference book, you can make sure your business succeeds. Whether you need help formulating a business plan, finding financing, or running the business once it's off the ground, you'll find it all in The Everything Start Your Own Business Book, 2nd Edition.

Handbook of Consumer Finance Research

Handbook of Consumer Finance Research Review

This handbook surveys the social aspects of consumer behavior, offering latest data and original research on current consumer needs as well as identifying emerging areas of research. This accessible volume (which can be read without advanced training in the field) starts with current concepts of risk tolerance, consumer socialization, and financial well-being, and moves on to salient data on specific settings and populations such as high school students and the older consumer.

Essential Finance Series: Choosing the Right Stocks

Essential Finance Series: Choosing the Right Stocks Review

Instant insights on today's market.

Investing in stocks doesn't have to be an overwhelming task. Learning what stocks are and how they work shouldn't take hours of reading. In Choosing the Right Stocks, the author has collected the information, sifted out the nonessentials, and organized the rest into short, clear explanations to help you easily make sense of the process. This book explains the details, breaks them down into manageable parts, and provides the insights and tools to invest wisely in stock markets here and abroad. Power tips help you avoid the pitfalls and make the most of your time and money-the two most powerful currencies of investing. Taking a clear, concise approach to money management, the Dorling Kindersley Essential Finance Series provides a practical and impartial resource to guide you through important financial decisions. Useful questionnaires pinpoint one's financial status while easy-to-use charts and graphs help track cash flow. Cut through the complexities of financial lingo and gain the confidence needed to build real financial security. Learn to live debt free, invest in the stock market, pay for a child's education, or plan for retirement. Filled with practical advice on all aspects of money management, this series offers an excellent foundation for building a personal finance library.

Kids and Money: Giving Them the Savvy to Succeed Financially (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf (Paperback))

Kids and Money: Giving Them the Savvy to Succeed Financially (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf (Paperback)) Review

If you've ever worried about whether your child will handle money responsibly and become self-sufficient, worry no more. Jayne Pearl shows you how to "gimme-proof" your kids to help them develop the discipline they ll need to manage their own finances.

It includes great advice from parents, psychologists, teachers and other experts on allowances, getting to kids to want to save instead of forcing them to do so, transforming shopping trips from battles to fun learning experiences, innoculating them against questionable values the acquire from the media and friends, and helping kids land their first job.
For parents of kids anywhere from preschool to college, this book is a rich resource for launching your children on the road to financial success.

Buying & Selling a Home

Buying & Selling a Home Review

Buying and Selling a Home allows people to be savvy when purchasing homes or putting homes on the market. This book gives potential buyers information on what type of home best suits their financial needs and gives potential sellers insight into what strategies will allow them to be the major player in the final transaction. Reading through this guide will permit the reader to better safeguard their investments and become a better negotiator when buying or selling a home.

Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success Review

Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success Feature

• ISBN13: 9780767901840
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with a sense of humor," and in-flight meals are never served--just sixty million bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping "reengineering," "total quality management," and other management philosophies and employing its own brand of business success, Kelleher's airline has turned a profit for twenty-four consecutive years and seen its stock soar 300 percent since 1990.

Today, Southwest is the safest airline in the world and ranks number one in the industry for service, on-time performance, and lowest employee turnover rate; and Fortune magazine has twice ranked Southwest one of the ten best companies to work for in America. How do they do it?

With unlimited access to the people and inside documents of Southwest Airlines, authors Kevin and Jackie Freiberg share the secrets behind the greatest success story in commercial aviation. Read it and discover how to transfer the Southwest inspiration to your own business and personal life.

The World's Easiest Guide to Finances

The World's Easiest Guide to Finances Review

The World's Easiest Guide to Finances Feature

• ISBN13: 9781881273387
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

Many financial resources are confusing to the average person. Leading Christian financial expert Larry Burkett answers the call for a simplified, yet comprehensive guide to financial management with The World's Easiest Guide to Finances. It is a comprehensive reference work that makes complicated terms and concepts easy to grasp with a touch of humor, and builds the confidence of a person of any experience level that they can understand and implement the information. Features helpful CD-ROM with the following contents:

• Interactive Budgeting Guide: Users simply enter their current expenses and this handy guide provides a visual representation of their budgets.
• The Debt Eliminator: Users enter debts amounts, payment information, and interest rates, and this helpful tool gives prioritized plans to pay off their debts.

Computational Finance Set: Computational Finance Using C and C# (Quantitative Finance)

Computational Finance Set: Computational Finance Using C and C# (Quantitative Finance) Review

In Computational Finance Using C and C# George Levy raises computational finance to the next level using the languages of both standard C and C#. The inclusion of both these languages enables readers to match their use of the book to their firm's internal software and code requirements. Levy also provides derivatives pricing information for:
- equity derivates: vanilla options, quantos, generic equity basket options
- interest rate derivatives: FRAs, swaps, quantos
- foreign exchange derivatives: FX forwards, FX options
- credit derivatives: credit default swaps, defaultable bonds, total return swaps.


Computational Finance Using C and C# by George Levy is supported by extensive web resources. Available for purchase on the multi-tier website are e versions of this book and Levy's first book, Computational Finance: Numerical Methods for Pricing Financial Derivatives. Purchasers of the print or e-book can download free software consisting of executable files, configuration files, and results files. With these files the user can run the example portfolio application in Chapter 8 and change the portfolio composition and the attributes of the deals.

In addition, Upgrade Software is available on the website for a small fee, and includes:
. Code to run all the C, C# and Excel examples in the book
. Complete C source code for the Analytics_Mathlib maths library that is used in the book
. C# source code, market data and portfolio files for the portfolio application described in Chapter 8

All the C/C# software can be compiled using either Visual Studio .NET 2005, or the freely available Microsoft Visual C#/C++ 2005 Express Editions.

With this software, the user can open the files and create new deals, new instruments, and change the attributes of the deals by editing the code and recompiling it. This serves as a template that a user can run to customize the deals for their personal, everyday use.

* Complete financial instrument pricing code in standard C and C# available to book buyers on companion website
* Illustrates the use of C# design patterns, including dictionaries, abstract classes, and .NET InteropServices.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Review

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Feature

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.

Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more.

This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The concepts are sometimes intricate, and you'll want to study this book, not skim it. When you finish, you'll probably have Post-it notes or hand-written annotations in every chapter, and you'll feel like you've taken a powerful seminar by Covey. --Joan Price

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

No-Nonsense Leadership: Real World Strategies To Maximize Personal & Corporate Potential

No-Nonsense Leadership: Real World Strategies To Maximize Personal & Corporate Potential Review

This is the most useable, hard-hitting field manual on managing and leading people available. It is broken down into short, direct, applicable sections filled with strategies like these:

-Seven Steps To Recruiting & Hiring A Team Of Eagles
-How To Leverage The Power Of Momentum
-Are You More Manager Than Leader?
-Eleven Steps For Leading Change
-A Fish Rots At The Head
-Five Causes & Cures For Corporate Cancer
-You Might Be a Micromanager If...
-How To Stay Off The Endangered Species List
-Your People Need A Coach. Not A Cop
-Vision: A Leader's First Responsibility
-Drop The Excuses For Not Training
-Weeding Out "Loyal" Non-Performers
-Six Steps To Power Motivating
-Five Steps To Holding Powerful One-On-Ones
-Turning Poor Performers Around
-How To Make The Tough Calls And Dozens More!

Dynamic Firm and Investor Behaviour Under Progressive Personal Taxation (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Dynamic Firm and Investor Behaviour Under Progressive Personal Taxation (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems) Review

This book aims to include the effects of a progressive personal tax into the deterministic dynamic theory of the firm. To this end the author investigates the impact of a progressive personal tax on the optimal dividend, financing and investment policy of a shareholder-controlled, value-maximising firm. More specifically, the principal aim is the justification of the thesis that during each stage of their evolution, firms will be controlled by investors in different tax brackets. With this aim in mind, the author develops a dynamic equilibrium and portfolio theory under certainty, which considers: - the market value of an arbitrary firm such that no excess demand for or supply of shares exists, - the portfolio selection of differently taxed investors, - the succession of differently taxed investors, who possess the shares of any value-maximizing firm, in the course of time, - the optimal resulting policy string and corresponding evolution of a firm in the course of time.

Choosing and Using an HMO (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf (Hardcover))

Choosing and Using an HMO (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf (Hardcover)) Review

The number one force driving most health maintenance organizations in the market today is profit, not quality. That's why HMOs are expanding as rapidly as they can. That's why multimillion dollar mergers are grabbing headlines. And that's why it's absolutely critical that consumers begin demanding superior quality from their HMOs. Ellyn Spragins had produced the first no-nonsense guide to selecting and using an HMO in this rapidly changing and confusing environment. This book cuts through HMO marketing hype, giving you the tools professionals use to choose the best health plans. You will learn how to profile your family's health needs and match them to a health plan's strengths. You'll discover how to pick the best doctor, when to go outside a network, and how to get a consultation with a specialist. You'll save time, money, and a lot of aggravation. Choosing and Using an HMO describes the concrete steps you should take to get the highest quality care. Packed with resources and lists of HMOs to seek out - or to avoid - this easy-to-use book demystifies the increasingly complex world of health care.

Everything Guide to Mortgages Book: Find the perfect loan to finance the home of your dreams (Everything (Business & Personal Finance))

Everything Guide to Mortgages Book: Find the perfect loan to finance the home of your dreams (Everything (Business & Personal Finance)) Review

Finding the right home can be easy. Finding the right mortgage-one you can afford-can be a challenge. You need to arm yourself with the latest information so you can make the right decision for you and your family, especially in the current housing market. In plain English, finance expert Lisa Horton shines a light on the confusing world of points, interest rates, and credit scores. Whether you're buying your first home, trading up to a larger one, or buying a rental property, you'll find all you need inside.

Learn how to:

• Save for a down payment and prepare to borrow
• Understand credit reports and credit scores
• Deal with banks, mortgage brokers, and online lenders
• Refinance a mortgage

The Everything Mortgage Book teaches you how lenders work, how different kinds of loans are structured, and what they're best for. You'll also learn which mortgage practices and loans you should avoid. Whether you have a great credit history or a poor one, you'll be able to get the best loan for your most important purchase-your home.

Lisa Holton is the author of How to be a Value Investor, The Essential Dictionary of Real Estate, and the Encyclopedia of Financial Planning. She is a contributing writer for the Financial Planning Association on consumer finance and retirement planning issues. Ms. Holton heads the Lisa Company, a writing, editing, and research firm. She lives in Evanston, IL.