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Managing Your Money All-In-One For Dummies

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Full of good information for managing your money well. However, the book is more written for those who have been messing up their finances for a long time, and need help getting out of trouble and into good money management instead of for those who are just looking to get organized, say the young professional that just started making a legitimate salary.

This book is exactly what I was looking for. I really like that this is a collection of 7 books, covering a number of topics. I needed a guide to help me with my personal finances- how to save, how to spend, and managing a personal budget. There is a lot of other great advice in here, including tips of managing your credit, determining how to save for the things you want and need, and how you can have a better relationship with money, creating a positive experience in money management as opposed to the stress many people feel when they manage their finances. I think this book is a must have!

"Managing Your Money All-In-One For Dummies" is a compilation of the works of eleven authors. For example, Kathleen Sindell, Ph.D. has rewritten and updated five chapters from "Managing Your Money Online For Dummies" for inclusion in "Managing Your Money All-In-One for Dummies". These chapters include:

Using the Internet to Help Manage Your Finances
Working With an Online Broker
Online Banking
Online Retirement Planning
Estate Planning Online

To sum it up, "Managing Your Money All-In-One For Dummies" is perfect for someone who wants to get control of their personal finances.

I bought this book to help educate my significant other about the world of money and where they are going. After I cracked it open on a few different chapters, I realized that this book is pretty high level overview and restates common sense. It has very little detailed info on any of the topics and it reads almost as a 700 pages long "would be nice todo list" with almost no "how-to manual".
You may use it as a reference which forces you to go online and research a topic there in more detail, but then what is the point of the 700 page book?

Added chapters about doing things like banking, financial planning etc online is another mentioning of what normal people already know, and probably wont help you much unless you lived in a cave for the past 15 years and completely missed out on the internet phenomenon.

I will return this book and look for something better on the topic.

This book is really basic. So if you know anything about finances you should go with a more advanced book. The resources and websites are really useful, but if you need this book than you probably better off taking it out of your library than purchasing it if you get my drift.

I'm still getting through the book. For now, its working for me; its a work in progress and I'm sure it will help in what I need in the future.

Big book full of sound financial advise. Oh, to be disciplined enough to follow it.