Review A Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance
by NANETTE JOEY BEECH
Description
Beech combines personal experiences with practical advice in showing how to plan your money management. This book teaches how a personal financial plan can be achieved through understanding the core principles of finance. For one, Beech shows the reader how to allocate paycheck rightly, how to budget spending, and even how to reap benefits from a retirement account.
She relates personal finance to everyday factors to ground the concept of daily life. This book will teach every woman the basic financial information she needs to create a solid financial plan.
The author discusses the fundamentals of personal finance to let the reader get a well-rounded comprehension of it. She uses everyday lives that most women experience and can relate to. It uses simple language in conveying the most significant aspects, which allows the reader to understand the concepts as she reads easily. Overall, the book is filled with information about finance as applied to daily life and gives the reader enough information and education about it to become fully capable of creating her financial plan.
About the Author
NANETTE JOELL (JOEY) BEECH earned a degree in business from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has over twenty-five years of professional experience in personal finance.
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Money Isn’t Everything
Chapter 1: Why Money Matters
Chapter 2: What Money Is and What It Isn’t
Chapter 3: The Math is Simple!
Section 2: Keeping What You Earn
Chapter 4: Pay Yourself First
Chapter 5: Understanding Your Paycheck
Chapter 6: Credit – Know the Score
Chapter 7: Where to Keep Your Money
Chapter 8: Budget to Know Where You Are
Chapter 9: Shop Smart
Chapter 10: Assets versus Liabilities
Chapter 11: Big Buys
Chapter 12: Dealing with Debt
Chapter 13: Insure for a Good Night’s Sleep
Section 3: Make Your Money Grow
Chapter 14: The Magic of Saving and Investing
Chapter 15: Understand Your Retirement Accounts
Chapter 16: Investing Terms You Need to Know
Chapter 17: How Much Is Enough?
Chapter 18: Don’t Let Fear Sidetrack You
Chapter 19: What’s It To You?
Section 4: Tidbits and Resources
Chapter 20: Time is Money, Spend it Wisely
Chapter 21: Wisdom of the Ages
Chapter 22: Tools and Resources
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author