Essential Finance

CPA Michele Cagan provides a quick and easy guide to help you learn the basics of accounting.

Too often, writing about social security turns the noteworthy details of the benefits into boring details about regulations or biased political arguments that would put even a diehard bureaucrat to sleep. Social Security 101, 2nd Edition, cuts out the tedious explanations and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you learn all you need to know about the federal program that’s been around since the Great Depression.

The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary goal remains the provision of essential knowledge by answering the fundamental questions about it: What is UBI? How does it work? What are the arguments for and against it? What is the evidence?

If you want to understand your finances, you need to understand your taxes. Learn everything you need to know about the US tax system and become more financially independent with Taxes 101. As people become more motivated to be as financially literate as possible, understanding every part of their financial wellness is key. With Taxes 101, you will learn the basics of the US tax system, from the system structure and kinds of taxes to all the tax laws that lead to deductions and credits and the forms associated with filing.

This audiobook is jam-packed with valuable information on the kinds of properties that can be turned into rental properties, investment strategies, financing options, how to deal with contractors and much more. How should you handle major repairs? How much rent should you charge?

People are sometimes too caught up with the day-by-day hustle and bustle that they tend to forget about securing their future and retirement. Each minute of this eight-chapter guide emphasizes how crucial investment is even before, during, and after one’s retirement. It talks about retirement, how to get started when planning for this, as well as how to ensure it’s a great one. Here, listeners get to assess and set their life goals, lifestyle, credit standing, habits, and learn strategies and tips to achieve these retirement goals.

A complete guide to the stock market and the stock exchange, this book shares some strategies on investing in the stock market and exchange, so you can earn profit immediately.

With virtually nonexistent oversight, the Internet can easily become the judge, jury, and executioner for anyone's reputation. Digital attacks and misinformation can cost you a job, a promotion, your marriage, even your business. Whether you've done something foolish yourself, are unfairly linked to another's misdeeds, or are simply the innocent victim of a third-party attack, most of us have no idea how to protect our online reputation.

If you want to discover how to take control of your money and get out of debt, then keep reading.... Do you want to be in total control of your expenses and the money you make? Have you tried writing your income and expenses down...but nothing seems to work for more than a few weeks? Do you finally want to say goodbye to worry surrounding money and discover something which works for you? If so, then you've come to the right place. You see, improving your financial situation doesn’t necessarily have to be difficult.

Get your fledgling company on stable financial footing by learning the basics of accounting for businesses. Proper accounting can make or break your business. It can mean the difference between breaking even your first year and limping along for several. It can reveal hidden costs, unexplored avenues, and alert you of potential problems before they blow up. This audiobook lives up to its title. You won’t find any complicated jargon or formulas that go over your head. Instead, you’ll find practical advice that you can use right away to make your business a financial success.

These days, between taxes and consumption, many people have nothing left to invest. Tom Curran will show you that it doesn't have to be that way, and he will advise you on how to change that. That means not just financial strategies but emotional intelligence because if spending and saving money were simply logical matters, most people would have plenty. Regardless of how smart or logical you are, when it comes to making decisions, emotion is the great neutralizer. With Investing Ahead, Curran has spelled out the eight investment essentials that have made him—and his clients—wealthy.

This book is full of valuable information about managing your rental properties, interacting with your tenants, continuing to grow your real estate business, and using today’s technology to keep you informed about the investment end of your business and the legal end of your rental landlord business.

Let's be honest, Social Security can be complicated. Understanding how your decisions affect your Social Security benefits can help you avoid devastating mistakes that could cost you tens of thousands of dollars over your retirement. Or cost you and your family important benefits. Find out what's important to you and get the information you need...Listen on to learn all you need to know about Social Security. Social Security encompasses more than just retirement benefits, and the more you know, the more money you might collect from it.

What are you trying to do with your money? Few of us take the time to analyze our financial needs and goals to answer that pressing question. In Wealth Odyssey, author Larry R. Frank Sr. uses his extensive financial background to provide a universal road map that will help you determine the wealth you need to support your chosen lifestyle.

We’ve all dreamed of financial stability and not having to worry about money ever again. Still, it’s something most of us deem near to impossible. In today’s society, we are taught how to be obedient workers and not really how to obtain that freedom in life. Through personal experience, I’ve learned that by mastering the stock market and learning how properly invest in it, you can end up living life on your own terms. However, learning how to become financially independent through stock investments can be extremely difficult without the right guidance.

Wielding his widely recognized powers of explanation, Paul Krugman lays bare the hidden facts behind the $1.35 trillion tax cut. In Fuzzy Math, Krugman dissects the Bush tax cut plan and shows us who wins, who loses, and how quickly the tax cuts will consume the surplus.

The Patrons of Husbandry - or the Grange - is the longest-lived US agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the Civil War, has had immeasurable influence on social change as enacted by ordinary Americans. The Grange sought to relieve the struggles of small farmers by encouraging collaboration. Pathbreaking for its inclusion of women, the Grange is also well known for its association with Gilded Age laws aimed at curbing the monopoly power of railroads.

This book builds on Iain's best seller Legally Avoid Property Taxes, which includes 51 tax tips that you should be aware of to legally avoid tax - whether you do your own self-assessment returns or pass everything over to your accountant, he wants to make absolutely sure that you've not left any money on the HMRC table. This book is a review of the significant changes that have been brought about by the 2015 budget, how you can make sense of these changes, and what you can do to lessen the impact of direct taxation on your property portfolio.

Recent trends suggest that we are moving out of a recession - fairly labeled The Great Recession - into a recovery phase characterized by high unemployment with growth. As such, the business road ahead will be challenging. Growth will be harder to achieve and business failure will be more prevalent. But the best of America's growth businesses will pass through this cycle to experience renewed and hopeful growth in contrast to the high failure rate of those who fail to grow. The numbers are proving this to be the extreme case - a higher upside with a greater failure rate.

Our status quo - the pyramid of wealth and power dominated by the few at the top - has failed and is beyond reform. This failure is not rooted in superficial issues such as politics or governmental regulations; the failure is structural. The very foundation of the status quo has rotted away, and brushing on another coat of reformist paint will not save our societal house from collapse.