Master Your Finances

All You Need to Eliminate Debt and Increase Savings

Michele Cagan, Kimberly A Colgate, Faye Kathryn Doria, Tere Drenth

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781440538506
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Business General

Do you feel like you’re just getting by? Are you worried about how you’ll make it to your next paycheck? Do you feel anxious when you think about the financial legacy—or burden—you’ll leave behind for your loved ones? Relax. You can gain control of your money with Master Your Finances.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Money, Wealth, and Personal Finance
• 2 A Small Dose of Personal Finance Math
• 3 Managing Your Taxes
• 4 Using a Financial Planner
• 5 Prioritizing Your Spending
• 6 Paying Down Your Debt
• 7 Freezing Your Spending for the Short Term
• 8 Restructuring a Heavy Debt Burden
• 9 Refinancing Your Home and Tapping Your Equity
• 10 Adding Income
• 11 Surviving Unemployment
• 12 Understanding Credit
• 13 Anatomy of a Credit Report
• 14 Watching Your Credit
• 15 A Close Look at Credit Scores
• 16 Good Credit Behavior
• 17 Building Credit
• 18 Optimizing Your Borrowing
• 19 Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
• 20 Building Your Investment Portfolio
• 21 All About Stocks
• 22 Choosing the Right Fund Combination
• 23 Saving for Retirement
• 24 Choosing Your Retirement Plan
• 25 The Five Steps of Creating an Estate Plan
• 26 The Parts of a Will
• Index
• Copyright