Personal Finance For Dummies (Abridged)

by Eric Tyson Narrated by Brett Barry

Overview

Do you need help managing your financial priorities? Relax! This friendly guide, now updated to include changes in the tax code, gives you just the information you need to take control of you finances. APersonal Finance for Dummies will inform both the financially troubled and those just starting out in the money making world how to manage money, deal with debt, and achieve financial stability. Personal Finance for Dummies, 5E, takes on the financial challenges of an increasingly technological world while continuing to provide the type of financial advice that has helped more than one million individuals to manage their personal finances so that they can achieve their lifestyle and financial goals. This edition will provide coverage of the new bankruptcy law; issues of identity theft; managing the growing costs of cell phones, beepers, Blackberries, satellite TV, and other widespread technologies; taming banking charges for use of ATMs and other services; looking into the realities of credit card rewards; surviving layoffs and evaluating early retirement deals; and more.

Editorial Reviews

AUG/SEP 07 - AudioFile

The program begins with a summary of the crazy financial approaches we learn as children, the bad advice we get as adults, and the goofy ways we manage money just to feel good. Moving slowly, the program offers its tips and suggestions in a scattershot pattern, rather than as a plan of action. As an overview of money management basics, it’s pleasant enough and therefore a good way for neophytes to become familiar with such basics as saving for retirement, investing, home buying, debt reduction, taxation, and insurance. Brett Barry is an effective interpreter of the plain language in this primer; he has a wonderful sound and doesn’t attempt to make the program more than it is. T.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

AUG/ SEP 07 - AudioFile

The program begins with a summary of the crazy financial approaches we learn as children, the bad advice we get as adults, and the goofy ways we manage money just to feel good. Moving slowly, the program offers its tips and suggestions in a scattershot pattern, rather than as a plan of action. As an overview of money management basics, it’s pleasant enough and therefore a good way for neophytes to become familiar with such basics as saving for retirement, investing, home buying, debt reduction, taxation, and insurance. Brett Barry is an effective interpreter of the plain language in this primer; he has a wonderful sound and doesn’t attempt to make the program more than it is. T.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177403632
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/31/2006
Edition description:	Abridged
Sales rank:	966,999

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