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Are you stymied by debt? Clueless about where your paychecks go? Journalist, podcaster and reformed money mess Frances Cook is here for you. Tales from a Financial Hot Mess is the story of Frances getting her money sh*t sorted. With no idea where she was going wrong and what to do about it, she took it upon herself to learn from the best – and soon found out that the fixes were right in front of her the whole time. (She just needed to wise up a bit.) Frances learned the hard way so you don’t have to. Dishing up a brilliant, often hilarious personal narrative, proven financial advice, handy how-tos (and please-don’ts) and many expert insights (from 22 actual experts), this book will guide you along the rocky path to financial freedom – however that might look for you. Tales from a Financial Hot Mess is the real deal – not another bulleted, tabled, graphed lecture from a financial advisor who’s never had issues with money. Read it and enjoy – who knows, you might learn a thing or two. What have you got to lose?

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...It may be argued on the other hand that the barracks and docks and other buildings and plant thus paid for out of capital last for manY i years, and that therefore it is more reasonable to spread the cost over a considerable period instead of charging it 4 all to one year. This would be a very good reason if these ' works were of an altogether exceptional character. But as a matter of fact the British Government has always to be building docks and barracks; it has always to be laying fresh telegraph wires, to be enlarging post oflices, law courts, and prisons. If the Government were run as a commercial concern all these forms of outlay would properly be treated as capital expenditure, and charged to capital account, and Would gradually be written ofl by successive depreciations. It is, however, impossible to treat all the departments of the Government as commercial businesses. The Post Office might indeed be so treated with great advantage to the country, but this would necessitate the complete separation of Post Ofiice accounts and administration from the other departments of the Government. Such services as those rendered by the Law Courts, by the Home Office, the Board of Trade, the Loflfll Government Board, and by the Army and Navy, cannot be judged by ordinary commercial standards. They must be treated as the head of ahousehold treats the various items of his domestic expenditure. He considers how much he can afford for the various needs of the house, and satisfies first those which are most imperative, buying one year a new carpet, another Year 3 new piano, and so on. He does not sit down and calculate that the ca1'Pet will last him so many years, and that therefore he can raise aloan to pay for it and wipe off the loan by 8-Series...

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Doctors and other high income professionals receive little training in personal finance, investing, or business. This book teaches them what they did not learn in school or residency. It includes information on insurance, personal finance, budgeting, buying housing, mortgages, student loan management, retirement accounts, taxes, investing, correcting errors, paying for college, estate planning and asset protection.

Praise for Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner's Guide Third Edition "This is an illuminating and insightful tour of financial statements, how they can be used to inform, how they can be used to mislead, and how they can be used to analyze the financial health of a company." -Professor Jay O. Light Harvard Business School "Financial Statement Analysis should be required reading for anyone who puts a dime to work in the securities markets or recommends that others do the same." -Jack L. Rivkin Executive Vice President (retired) Citigroup Investments "Fridson and Alvarez provide a valuable practical guide for understanding, interpreting, and critically assessing financial reports put out by firms. Their discussion of profits-'quality of earnings'-is particularly insightful given the recent spate of reporting problems encountered by firms. I highly recommend their book to anyone interested in getting behind the numbers as a means of predicting future profits and stock prices." -Paul Brown Chair-Department of Accounting Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU "Let this book assist in financial awareness and transparency and higher standards of reporting, and accountability to all stakeholders." -Patricia A. Small Treasurer Emeritus, University of California Partner, KCM Investment Advisors "This book is a polished gem covering the analysis of financial statements. It is thorough, skeptical and extremely practical in its review." -Daniel J. Fuss Vice Chairman Loomis, Sayles & Company, LP

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.