Let's Get Financial Savvy! From Debt-Free to Investing With Ease [Paperback]

Dr. Lois Center-Shabazz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2002

This book is right on time for the post dot-com investment frenzy. Dr. Center-Shabazz has created an easy-to-understand and easy-to-read book, which thoroughly explains the importance of changing your thinking, to change your life. Read her story, about how she became MsFinancialSavvy. She explains how to think in terms of becoming debt-free and budgeting in order to organize your finances.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"..After reading through several debt management books, this one assisted me the most". -- BlackEdition.com, November 2003

"Everything I talk about in my book are things I did personally," Shabazz explains. -- The Network Journal Magazine, January 2003

Gives you the feeling that you can get your financial life in order, no matter what stage it’s in. -- goodcreditnews.com, November 2003

Is a superbly organized and presented "how to" guide to managing personal finances. -- Midwest Book Review, January 2003

Let's Get Financial Savvy! From Debt-Free to Investing With Ease: I feel this book contains good """"start up"""" material -- Steve Selengut, Author, Registered Investment Advisor, Sancoservices, Johns Island, South Carolina

Review: Let's Get Financial Savvy! contains good "start-up" material.. -- Steve Selengut, Registered Investment Advisor, South Calornia, November 2003.

From the Publisher

"Let's Get Financial Savvy!"Is The Winner of the 2002 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for self-help, given by the North American Book Dealers Exchange, February 2003.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: CenNet Systems (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971979502
• ISBN-13: 978-0971979505
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,862,061 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for Beginners!, May 20, 2003

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Phyllis Rhodes (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let's Get Financial Savvy! From Debt-Free to Investing With Ease (Paperback)

Dr. Center-Shabazz explains the notion of financial savviness in her book, Let's Get Financial Savvy!, using this adage, "You can take a million dollars from a rich man and chances are he will regain it within a year. You can give a million dollars to a poor man and chances are he will lose it within a year." The difference between the two is financial savvy. Concisely, financial savvy comes from knowledge and knowledge is power. The purpose of the book is to empower others to claim and retain their "savviness".

I think this book is an excellent resource for beginners who desire an understanding of financial concepts because it is not a comprehensive "how-to" guide. The author provides some budgeting formulas and worksheets that are largely self-explanatory and rudimentary. She does a great job dissecting complex topics and restating them in layman's terms to ensure thorough comprehension. She also covers the basics by featuring numerous financial topics ranging from budgeting (cash flow and debt management) to retirement and investment planning. Simply stated, she tells the reader what should be done without all the details on how to make it happen. This approach may be too elementary for the experienced investor who may be looking for advanced strategies and tactics. For example, on the subject of mutual funds, she discusses the benefits, types, and other fund aspects and then instructs the reader to "read a lot of mutual fund reports" without providing an example of how to analyze such a report to understand the terminology, indicators, or components of such reports. This reviewer is of the opinion that advice like this is akin to a parent briefing their teenager on the benefits of car ownership and then handing them the manuals to the GM models to read on their own.

Nonetheless, the author's enthusiasm and dedication toward personal enrichment shines through in the book. Her "can do" attitude, illustrated in her "How I Came To Be MSFINANCIALSAVVY" chapter at the beginning of the book, resonates throughout to demonstrate that personal change is possible one step at a time.

Phyllis
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Straightforward guide to both personal finance and investing, September 11, 2004

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This review is from: Let's Get Financial Savvy! From Debt-Free to Investing With Ease (Paperback)

I have ordered and have read quite a wide variety of personal finance books and investment books over the last 6-8 months. I am pleased to say that Let's get Financial Savvy is not just a neat title. The book blends the topics of personal finance and investment in an easy to read personal style. Your real life experience makes for inspirational reading too. It covers the fundamentals of both topics very well and is not overly lengthy. Since it was written relatively recently is also very up to date. Well written.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book had a huge impact on my life!, August 26, 2003

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karen Phelps (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Get Financial Savvy! From Debt-Free to Investing With Ease (Paperback)

After reading Let's Get Financial Savvy! I now have started to fund my work retirement account, started a balanced budget, written and working a plan for getting out of debt. This book gives you such clear step-by-step instructions for getting your financial life in order. After reading Lois' book no one should be in the dark about money and it's potential.