Personal Finance / Edition 8

by Robert S. Rosefsky

Overview

This friendly guide provides comprehensive coverage of all basic money management principles. Enables readers to understand not only the implications of far-reaching events but also the fundamental knowledge to navigate the world of personal finance. Describes how to effectively manage personal assets- from buying and selling to investing, insuring, planning and preparing income taxes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471393221
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/28/2001
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dr. Robert Rosefsky's credentials as author, educator, and professional financial consultant uniquely suit him to create this definitive text on personal fianance.
After receiving his B.A. degree from Yale and his Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law, he had a dual career for many years as a lawyer/banker, dealing with his clientele as a "financial problem solver". He then turned his efforts to the mass media to educate a broader audience in personal finance.
Dr. Rosefsky's advice has been nationally syndicated in newspapers, radio and television. He has written ten books and a countless number of articles. He has won the prestigious national John Hancock Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism, and has served on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Business and Economics Writers.
He has created two college-credit educational television courses, "You and the Law," and "Personal Finance" which has been nationally distributed by PBS, and which won an Emmy Award as "Best Instructional Series."
Dr. Rosefsky has taught Business and Economic Reporting at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Journalism, as well as adult extension Financial Planning programs at UCLA, USC, and Coastline Community College. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad.
He has also developed a leisure career as a travel writer and editor. He was co-founder and editor-in-chief of CruiseNet, a print travel magazine focusing on cruise vacations, and is producing an Internet magazine Life's a Trip.

Table of Contents

Get the Picture?

FAMILY ECONOMICS.

The Economy: How It Works and What It Means to You.

Working, Planning, and Budgeting.

Sensible Shopping and Spending.

Frauds and Swindles and How to Avoid Them.

Transportation: Buying, Financing, and Insuring Your Cars.

A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD.

Buying a Home.

Financing a Home.

Housing Costs and Regulations.

Renting.

Selling Your Home.

WHERE THE MONEY IS.

Financial Institutions.

Credit and Borrowing.

MAKING YOUR MONEY GROW.

Making Your Money Grow: An Overview.

Making Your Money Grow: The Money Market.

Making Your Money Grow: The Stock Market.

Making Your Money Grow: Real Estate and Other Opportunities.

PROTECTING WHAT YOU WORK FOR.

Life, Health, and Income Insurance.

Financial Planning For Later Years.

Estate Planning.

Income Taxes.

Working for Yourself.

Glossary.

Index.