Focus on Personal Finance (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate)

Focus on Personal Finance (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) Review

Focus on Personal Finance is a brief, 14-chapter book, covering the critical topics in Personal Finance courses. This 4-color, paperback text is designed and written to appeal to a range of ages, life situations, and levels of financial literacy.

A unique aspect of this text is its active approach. This text will not only get your students thinking about their current situation and financial goals, but also to put these in writing to use as a guide and revise over the course of their lives. The more a student involves themselves in the assessments, exercises and worksheets provided, the more they will discover about their current habits and how to improve them for greater financial freedom.

Students have many different financial goals, but none are more important than having a basic understanding of financial issues and peace of mind with regard to their decisions. The ultimate goal of Focus on Personal Finance is to get students to this point as a first step to achieving the many financial goals they have set for themselves.

Personal Finance 8th edition (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) (Eco/Fin 110, Nassau Community College)

Personal Finance 8th edition (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) (Eco/Fin 110, Nassau Community College) Review

The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, 8th edition, 2007, ECO/FIN110 Nassau Community College. 643 pages in 6 chapters + 2 Appendixes + 78 page Personal Financial Planner

The Handy Personal Finance Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)

The Handy Personal Finance Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) Review

Combining the most current data with a user-friendly format, this timely reference features more than 1,000 answers to questions on personal finance, its history, and managing one's financial life. Providing financial lessons in a fun, approachable way, the book avoids financial jargon and offers facts for everyday life that help readers save money. Questions range from simple to complex—How do I balance my check book?Why do people like to use online banks, and how popular is their use?What is a 401K plan? With financial information suitable for a wide range of ages, this is an ideal source for anyone looking to get a better understanding of personal finances.

The Everything Personal Finance in Your 40s and 50s Book: A comprehensive strategy to ensure you can retire when you want and live well (Everything Series)

The Everything Personal Finance in Your 40s and 50s Book: A comprehensive strategy to ensure you can retire when you want and live well (Everything Series) Review

Every day, more than 10,000 people turn forty in the United States, moving toward retirement without traditional pension plans backing them up. Lacking the safety net that protected their parents and grandparents, they’re forced to take the initiative for their own financial security. They need a source of information that doesn’t scare them away with insider jargon and intimidating complications. This book will help those who have felt uninformed, intimidated, or excluded from the process, and will simplify difficult topics like budgeting, investing, paying for college while saving for retirement, and helping kids with debt. People will find the essential tools and resources they need to set a course toward retirement and security at this critical stage in life.

All About Stocks: The Easy Way to Get Started ("All About--" Finance Series)

All About Stocks: The Easy Way to Get Started ("All About--" Finance Series) Review

Everything the individual investor needs to know about stocks.

All About Stocks, Second Edition, covers stock market basics for newcomers and provides concise and understandable answers to today's most-asked stock market questions. Entirely rewritten from the first edition­­with diagrams, charts, and tables added to increase its usefulness­­this second edition now includes information on:

• Using the Internet for both information and trading
• How mutual funds can ease stock market anxieties
• How to buy a stock­­and how to know when it's time to sell

Finance: Plain and Simple: What you Need to Know to Make Better Financial Decisions (Financial Times Series)

Finance: Plain and Simple: What you Need to Know to Make Better Financial Decisions (Financial Times Series) Review

Learn the fundamentals of financial language so you can make better financial decisions. This complete and easy-to-digest guide to financial jargon will show you how to understand finance, how to speak financial language, how to make better financial decisions and will show you how financial decision making affects you. Finance Plain and Simple is for everyone who will need to make financial decisions throughout their lives - be it about pensions, savings, mortgages or investments. This accessible book includes worked examples and case studies which illustrate how terms like AER and cash flow affect individual consumers.

The Geek's Guide to Personal Finance (The Geek's Guides series)

The Geek's Guide to Personal Finance (The Geek's Guides series) Review

For all those who want to learn how to better manage their money, this book covers such topics as budgeting, cleaning up your credit score, whether to buy or lease a vehicle, how to choose life insurance, and how much to spend buying a home. In a clear and understandable style, The Geeks Guide to Personal Finance helps readers quickly boost their confidence and financial health, get out of debt, and start to accumulate wealth.

Foundations of Finance (7th Edition) (MyFinanceLab Series)

Foundations of Finance (7th Edition) (MyFinanceLab Series) Review

Foundations of Financeenables students to see the big picture by letting them understand the logic that drives finance rather than having them memorize formulas. The book motivates the study of finance with a focus on five underlying principles.

Management of Investments (Mcgraw Hill Series in Finance)

Management of Investments (Mcgraw Hill Series in Finance) Review

This successful investments title has been rewritten for ease and clarity, and is designed to serve as an undergraduate text for courses in investments and finance. This updated edition includes major new investment products and the recent behaviour of financial markets. Theory chapters are now grouped at the end of the book. The international nature of investing is discussed in a number of chapters, and the divergent nature of stock markets in 23 countries is compared and contrasted. The "Portfolio Analysis" and "Capital Market Theory" chapters remain comprehensive and there is a unique chapter on taxes and law. Also available are an instructor's manual / test bank (0-07-021819-6); student software - IBM 5.25" Lotus-driven (0-07-833110-2); and computerized test banks in IBM 5.25" (0-07-833111-0) and IBM 3.5" (0-07-833112-9) versions.

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.

Smart Guide to Managing Personal Finance (The Smart Guides Series)

Smart Guide to Managing Personal Finance (The Smart Guides Series) Review

Smart Tips on setting up a realistic budget that works for your individual circumstances

Smart Ways to stick to your budget, establish savings, invest wisely, and develop good credit

Smart Advice on overcoming previous credit problems, choosing the right bank, and finding a trustworthy broker or accountant
* Smart Advice on the most effective ways to take control, plan ahead, and stop living paycheck to paycheck
* Smart Tips for getting the best rates on credit cards, buying or leasing a car, and purchasing a home
* Smart Insights on maximizing your health and life insurance benefits, reducing your taxes, and ensuring that your estate goes to your heirs rather than to the government
* Quick reading and easy referencing with a comprehensive index and loads of sidebars and tables


Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner have written more than fifty books together, including Online Resources for Business and Making More Money on the Internet. They live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Larstan's The Black Book on Personal Finance: The Wealth-Creation Secrets of the World's Savviest Advisors (Black Book Series)

Larstan's The Black Book on Personal Finance: The Wealth-Creation Secrets of the World's Savviest Advisors (Black Book Series) Review

Written by experts who advise higher-income clients on finances, taxes, insurance, and business, The Black Book of Personal Finance combines its authors’ years of experience into a single volume. Written from an advanced perspective that is intelligible to the layperson, this book presents a wide range of topics for those who either have or aspire to an annual household income in excess of ,000. Individual chapters cover reasons to avoid the advice of most self-anointed “experts” and cover topics including: an 11-step investing process, a sector rotation strategy that generates gains in any market condition, using life insurance premium financing to dramatically increase cash flow, maximizing bequests to beneficiaries, and more. Like other books in this series, this one is designed with an engaging “spy” motif on each spread that simplifies complex information.

Financial Applications using Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ (The Wiley Finance Series)

Financial Applications using Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ (The Wiley Finance Series) Review

Financial Applications using Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ is a must-buy book for any serious Excel developer.Excel is the industry standard for financial modelling, providing a number of ways for users to extend the functionality of their own add-ins, including VBA and C/C++. This is the only complete how-to guide and reference book for the creation of high performance add-ins for Excel in C and C++ for users in the finance industry. Steve Dalton explains how to apply Excel add-ins to financial applications with many examples given throughout the book. It also covers the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing add-ins for Excel in VBA versus C/C++, and provides comprehensive code, workbooks and example projects on the accompanying CD-ROM. The impact of Excel 2007’s multi-threaded workbook calculations and large grids on add-in development are fully explored. Financial Applications using Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ features: 

• Extensive example codes in VBA, C and C++, explaining all the ways in which a developer can achieve their objectives.
• Example projects that demonstrate, from start to finish, the potential of Excel when powerful add-ins can be easily developed.
• Develops the readers understanding of the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing add-ins for Excel in VBA versus C/C++.
• A CD-ROM with several thousand lines of example code, numerous workbooks, and a number of complete example projects.

Everything Guide to Mortgages Book: Find the perfect loan to finance the home of your dreams (Everything Series)

Everything Guide to Mortgages Book: Find the perfect loan to finance the home of your dreams (Everything Series) 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.