Financial Management

Ever wondered why some people struggle with their finances despite earning well and putting in significant efforts to manage them? And how some achieve better financial outcomes with little effort? In The 80-20 Money Makeover, popular blogger and financial expert Arun Kumar takes you on a money makeover journey. Kumar's proven model, based on the Pareto principle, or the 80-20 rule, helps you focus on the critical few decisions (versus the trivial many) and achieve great results with minimum fuss.

You Are the Rock Star: Finding Your Financial Flow is a catalyst for growth, reshaping how you view wealth and making money fun. If you want to expand your mind and attract wealth in a massive way, increasing your understanding of money, finance, and investing for sustainable success, get ready. By the end of this book, you will understand what it means to be wealthy, how to set yourself up for financial success, and how to invest like the rock star you are. We all deserve to be ballin’ out. So, expand your mind and relationship with money. Create your life of abundance!

The New York Times best-selling author of The Roaring 2000s guides listeners through the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The first and last economic depression that you will experience in your lifetime is just ahead. The years 2009 and 2010 will be the initial end of prosperity in almost every market, ushering in a downturn like most of us have not experienced before.

In the newly revised second edition of Business Secrets from the Bible, renowned keynote speaker, consultant, and advisor Rabbi Daniel Lapin delivers an inspiring and practical guide to achieving your financial goals by deploying timeless truths from the Bible. In the book, you'll explore the secrets of creating revenue using timeless spiritual strategies, as well as concrete guidance on developing your self-discipline, integrity, and moral strength.

In this deeply personal memoir, Schwab describes his passion to have Main Street participate in the growing economy as investors and owners, not only earners. Schwab opens up about his dyslexia and how he worked around and ultimately embraced it, and about the challenges he faced while starting his fledgling company in the 1970s. A year into his grand experiment in discounted stock trading, living in a small apartment in Sausalito with his wife, Helen, and new baby, he carried a six-figure debt and a pocketful of personal loans.

While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.

Marquetta Breslin teaches hair stylists and beauty professionals from around the world how to build a successful business, gain the freedom they deserve, and live life on their own terms. Million Dollar Stylist is about taking your skills and love for doing hair and creating a future you never thought possible. It's about enjoying a level of freedom you've never experienced before.

Gurus like Dave Ramsey, Suze Orman, and others have amassed followers by the millions because of their paint-by-the-numbers financial strategies that are easy to digest and implement. And while they have helped many Americans eliminate debt and take their first steps toward financial freedom, their dumbed-down financial advice is inadequate and incomplete for those looking to maximize their savings. In The Guru Gap, David McKnight closes the gap between what mainstream media personalities advise and the sophisticated, math-based approach your retirement plan requires.

Let's face it—talking about money is always awkward. In this user-friendly and approachable guide, finance writer Erin Lowry helps take the stress out of these tricky conversations. Lowry arms you with all of the financial knowledge you'll need in order to get the most out of each interaction, whether that's with your friends, your spouse, your employer, or your mom.

Real wages have stagnated or declined for most workers, job insecurity has increased, and retirement income is uncertain. Why have jobs gotten so much worse? As Peter Cappelli argues, these issues and others stem from the logic of financial accounting and its fundamental flaws in dealing with human capital. Financial accounting views employee costs as fixed costs that cannot be reduced and fails to account for the costs of bad employees and poor management. The simple goal of today's executives is to drive down employment costs, even if it raises costs elsewhere.

Most people are cautious about any advice they receive concerning their finances. But what if that advice were to come from the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity? In The Holy Spirit, Your Financial Advisor, Dr. Creflo Dollar investigates what the Bible has to say about the role of the Holy Spirit in the area of making and keeping money and discovers some surprising truths.

Practical, spiritual, and above all soundly financial, The Courage to Be Rich addresses the rites of passage we all must face - marriage, divorce, death; spending (and overspending) on life's necessities and luxuries; taking control of our financial tomorrows today. From the business of love to buying a home; from imparting proper values to our children to defining our own self-worth; from starting over to staking a claim to our future, Orman shows us how to find the clarity, conviction, and courage to meet the obstacles and opportunities of a lifetime.

Investors beware! That's the message in Howard Kurtz's The Fortune Tellers. It reveals what happens when 'Net technology meets stock market hype. Listen to an interview with the author on archive edition of Marketplace.

Focusing on her own personal path, Sarah Ban Breathnach relates never-before revealed details about how she fell from the financial top to the bottom. Listeners will immediately see how deeply she understands the plight of those trying to maintain a happy and comfortable home while at the same time not even knowing if they will be able to make the mortgage to keep that home.

Every couple argues about money. It doesn't matter if you've been married for forty years or dating for four months, money touches every decision you make as a couple. And when the two of you don't see eye to eye on spending and saving, disagreements turn into toxic fights that leave both feeling hurt and angry. But what if you could understand and embrace your unique money differences and transform your financial relationship for the better? The Kovars believe you can do just that by discovering your Money Personalities.

Are you ready to take your financial future into your own hands? Look no further than "Awaken Your Financial Genius", a powerful audio collection featuring new, never-before-released segments from world-renowned investor, author, speaker, and entrepreneur Robert Kiyosaki, along with insights from Kim Kiyosaki and other advisors and friends of the Rich Dad organization.

Imagine you're hanging out with friends on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Everyone's showing off their latest purchases — the newest iPhone or that exclusive Taylor Swift concert ticket. But while your friends flash their cards or Apple Pay, your heart sinks. With every tap, cha-ching, or swipe, you're confronted with a grim reality — financial FOMO.

Are you desperate to make ends meet each month, constantly wondering if you can pay the bills? If debts are poisoning your life and you want to make your dollar go 10 times further, it's time to budget. Living alone from the age of 14, I learned to budget the hard way. Since my early teenage years, I had to earn and save my own money. In this book I'm sharing my insights about how to manage even the smallest income to outlast the month. I will give concrete, actionable advice based on my own and well-known financial experts' experience.

It’s time to claim your financial freedom. All you need is a road map to follow, and you can create a life most people only dream about. A life free from financial stress. A life full of what matters most to you. In Retire Before Mom and Dad, you’ll learn how to unlock the superpower inside of you that is capable of transforming almost any income into lasting financial freedom.

Money issues are a frequent source of conflict in any marriage. But blended families are a monetary minefield. Debts, bills, and child support payments from previous relationships often influence the finances of a blended family. And planning for college expenses, retirement, and inheritance gets even more complicated in stepfamilies.