Financial consultant Robert A. Ortalda, Jr., presents a realistic, step-by-step system for getting what you want, when you want it--without getting into debt.
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SIMPLY THE BEST!,
This review is from: How to Live Within Your Means and Still Finance Your Dreams (Paperback)
If you need a method for managing your money, this is simply the best book out there. It is not preachy and is more focused than most financial books that try to cover personal budgeting in a single chapter: it is too complex a subject to get adequate treatment in a few pages.This, on the other hand, is a good chunk of book about just the one subject. There are a lot of OK books out there but, really, to do budgeting and financial planning how many do you need? Only one and this is it! But be warned, the system presented by the author is complex and intensive in that it requires that you really think about where your money is going. It also forces you to set priorities and face the limitations of your financial resources. If you use the system it will force you to become future and goal oriented and if you have a problem with spending too much and not saving enough, this might just be the cure. Good luck.
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One of the most interesting technical finance books availabl,
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This review is from: How to Live Within Your Means and Still Finance Your Dreams (Paperback)
This book is very thought provoking and in my opinion is right-on. Interesting reading for an often dry subject. If only most accounting courses could be this interesting.
However, with the amount of bookeeping that is illustrated and the advance of household computers over the past 15 years, I think many a reader would be better served to get an updated version that has some computer programs to supplement the reading material.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Book On "Budgeting /Decision-Making" Thus Far,
By Ron A Rhoades (Lecanto, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Live Within Your Means and Still Finance Your Dreams (Paperback)
This is a "how-to" book covering the fundamentals of establishing a personal financial system of establishing and attaining financial planning goals. The book successfully sets forth an easy-to-adopt system of "funding" each desired goal. Throughout the book the author illustrates the principles with stories from this own dealing with clients.If you need assistance with "establishing a budget", "getting out of debt", or "learning to save", then this is the book for you. It is probably most suited for persons age 18-55 who need a system to manage their income, or to handle sudden influxes of wealth. If you are living beyond your means, or never saving enough, an attitude adjustment book explaining the "why" (such as "The Millionaire Next Door") might be read first, followed by this book, which shows you the "how". You might then follow these readings with others in personal finance and investing, such as John Bogle's excellent primer "Common Sense on Mutual Funds". My only reservation about this book is that it lacks an explanation of how to implement the "funding" system proposed through Quicken or MS Money financial planning software. If the author is listening, perhaps a future edition can be planned. Until such happens, however, this 1990 book still remains the best "how to" book of "funding" and "budgeting" personal finances out there. I often recommend this book to my younger clients and thereafter see their successes in implementing the system this book teaches.
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When I developed the Financial Sanity system in 1985, I did it to help my friends, members of that vast, overanalyzed, much-marketed-to baby boom generation born within the fifteen years following World War II. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monthly funding allocation, new personal assets, alphabetical vendor file, scheduled expenditures, funding account, nondeductible costs, funding items, tissue copies, funding calculations, tax multiplier, erratic income, monthly allocation, capitalization factor, funding target, debt reduction plan, funding contribution, retirement funding, spending power, net realizable value, checking account balance, supporting schedule, funding money, income requirement, funding categories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Financial Sanity, Balance Forward, Funding Crash Analysis, Funding Tracking Ledger, Debt Reduction Planner, Master Budget Summary, Budget Monitoring Analysis, Goals Planning Timeline, Inflow-Outflow Information Sheet, Baseline Budget, Tax Multiplier Worksheet, Timeline Expenditures, Other Liquid Assets, Cash Flow Planner, Later Date, Baseline Cost of Living, Annual Control Expenditures, Principal Reduction Debt, Total Liabilities, Earlier Date, Payment Annual, Retirement Planning Alternatives Worksheet, First-Degree Funding Shortfall, Total Assets, Difference Period Covered New!
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When I developed the Financial Sanity system in 1985, I did it to help my friends, members of that vast, overanalyzed, much-marketed-to baby boom generation born within the fifteen years following World War II. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monthly funding allocation, new personal assets, alphabetical vendor file, scheduled expenditures, funding account, nondeductible costs, funding items, tissue copies, funding calculations, tax multiplier, erratic income, monthly allocation, capitalization factor, funding target, debt reduction plan, funding contribution, retirement funding, spending power, net realizable value, checking account balance, supporting schedule, funding money, income requirement, funding categories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Financial Sanity, Balance Forward, Funding Crash Analysis, Funding Tracking Ledger, Debt Reduction Planner, Master Budget Summary, Budget Monitoring Analysis, Goals Planning Timeline, Inflow-Outflow Information Sheet, Baseline Budget, Tax Multiplier Worksheet, Timeline Expenditures, Other Liquid Assets, Cash Flow Planner, Later Date, Baseline Cost of Living, Annual Control Expenditures, Principal Reduction Debt, Total Liabilities, Earlier Date, Payment Annual, Retirement Planning Alternatives Worksheet, First-Degree Funding Shortfall, Total Assets, Difference Period Covered New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Financial Sanity by Robert A. Ortalda on 4 pages
- Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I by Elliot Forbes in Back Matter
- Selling Your Crafts by Susan Joy Sager on page 64, and Back Matter
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- The Joy of Working from Home by Jeff Berner on page 92
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