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A lively textbook on the principles of personal money management. This revised edition adds a new chapter, "Working for Yourself," and is accompanied by the most recent copy of Personal Finance Update, a twice-annual publication which serves to keep the textbook up-to- date during the normal three-year life of each edition. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description
Revised and updated to reflect current changes in the political and economic climate, this friendly guide provides comprehensive coverage of all basic money management principles. Enables readers to understand not only the implications of far-reaching events but also the fundamental knowledge to navigate the world of personal finance. Describes how to effectively manage personal assets-from buying and selling to investing, insuring, planning and preparing income taxes.

The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
Revised and updated to reflect current changes in the political and economic climate, this edition provides comprehensive coverage of all basic money management principles. Enables readers to understand not only the implications of far-reaching events but also provides them with the fundamental knowledge to navigate the world of personal finance. Describes how to effectively manage personal assets--from buying and selling to investing, insuring, planning and preparing income taxes. Features a new chapter on going into business for yourself. Supplemented biannually to keep readers apprised of the latest financial trends and developments.

Back Cover Copy
A Learning Tool For Today, A Reference Source For The Future This is much more than a textbook. It’s a long-term companion that will help you solve problems you’ll be facing for years to come. Today you’re embarking on a course of study that will give you the basic knowledge to help you set and achieve your financial goals. Tomorrow—and indeed for many years to come—you’ll be facing the tricky realities of buying houses and cars, building a nest-egg, shopping for insurance, planning a secure future for yourself and your family. When those times come you may have long forgotten what you learned in this course. But this book will be there for you as a trusted problem-solver whenever those real-life dilemmas confront you. The book also gives you access to a number of other unique learning devices:Stimulating exercises, developed exclusively for this book, which will teach you how to use the Internet for researching and solving your financial problems.Regular updates on the Internet to keep you on top of developing trends.A tie-in with the Wall St. Journal to enhance your knowledge of the economics of everyday life.The Decision Maker software, a number-crunching program that will enable you to make easy wise and practical judgments on all the major financial issues you’ll come up against.And it’s all in easy-to-understand language. No econobabble. No get-rich-quick baloney. Straight, solid doable expert advice that you can always put to good use.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Revised and updated to reflect current changes in the political and economic climate, this friendly guide provides comprehensive coverage of all basic money management principles. Enables readers to understand not only the implications of far-reaching events but also the fundamental knowledge to navigate the world of personal finance. Describes how to effectively manage personal assets-from buying and selling to investing, insuring, planning and preparing income taxes.

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