All Entries in the "Money Management" Category
Who is the CFO of your family?
When I started brainstorming for this article, my primary purpose was to discuss “who manages the finances in your family?” Upon, further review, many people have discussed this topic at great length, and have also included the role of CFO to include finances, family, parenting, cooking, fulfillment, etc. Some have referred to it as the [...]
Personal Financial Statement Template
There are many tools on the world wide web that can aid us in our personal financial lives. Microsoft has many templates that may be utilized to organize our lives and to help you Run Your Life Like a Business. One basic item that every adult should know how to construct is a personal financial [...]
Are You Healthy?
…that is….financially healthy? CNNMoney.com has a pretty good, high-level questionnaire for everyone to fill-out to determine your personal financial health. At first glance, when I saw this post by Flexo, I was skeptical. I said to myself, “how can a short quiz determine an individual’s financial health?” Well, upon further review, this short survey of [...]
Kiplinger’s Six Best Budgeting Sites
Kiplinger.com recently posted an article about how to get your financial house in order online. They recommended six sites which accomplish a multitude of solutions, but the focus of the article was online budgeting. The six recommended sites were as follows: mint.com geezeo.com wesabe.com budgettracker.com budgetpulse.com buxfer.com I am most familiar with mint.com and have [...]
Envelope Budget System
Having difficulties tracking your budget? Have you mastered the budgeting process only to find out that you go over your alloted amounts on a monthly basis due to poor tracking skills? One way to combat this problem is to utilze MS Excel to its potential by downloading your online banking activity on a weekly basis [...]
The New Money Math (Source: Men’s Health)
Men’s Health magazine had an article in its December 2008 edition related to personal finances, so I thought I would share it with the readers of this blog (Thanks to Germano for letting me rip this out of his subscription). The tag line of the article was “The current economic mess happened because lenders, and [...]
Saving and Investing – 10 Simple Strategies
The AICPA’s 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy program has some really good articles and tools available to volunteers who desire to spend some of their free time promoting financial literacy education. Their 10 simple strategies for saving and investing are as follows: 1. Start Small – Anything is better than nothing. The theory of compounding [...]
Emergency Fund
The below article is one that I wrote at my previous blog, which suggested building an emergency fund. This article was written on June 3, 2006. Right around this time, I opened up an online savings account with Emigrant Direct, however, soon after I transferred this account to E*Trade where I now house 1) emergency [...]
