Well the obvious one is that you are going to need a personal computer with some form of high speed Internet connection so that you can do the charts, spreadsheets and other needed things to make sure that your money is trending the direction that you want it to be. You will need whatever software [...]

There is a good chance that if you are in a position to invest and are looking for someone to help you with that investment that you have friends that are in that same situation. So why not ask them before you get too far into the search? After all they are your friends and [...]

This article is going to deal in a lot of generalities because it would be difficult to manage precise answers on how to do something when everyone’s financial situations, goals and ideas are going to be different. Maybe you have a short term need and maybe mine is more long term. As you can see [...]

How often have you set out on a cross-country journey without a map that tells you what highways to take to reach your destination? Yes a GPS counts as a map. And even more to the point, if you were living in Brentwood Long Island in New York and wanted to go to Mist Oregon [...]

Let’s turn the clock back about 30 or so years and look at an accountant’s office. There would be rows of file cabinets, lots of pencils, a dial telephone and an old calculator with a crank on the side, that was later replaced with the automatic printing kind that ran on electricity. Back then you [...]

As with anything and everything else in this world lately finances have become a forefront issue. Where it used to be accepted that money might be plentiful for this thing or that project it is not necessarily so today. People have had to look at expenditures and ascertain what are necessities and what are luxuries [...]

Granted, you do not necessarily want money advice from relatives, such as your mother in law, though they are well-meaning most of the time, there are times when you could indeed use money advice. Going to friends is occasionally the right step, but, avoid going that route unless they themselves have solved their money problems [...]

Those who are feeling the pinch of the recession are constantly looking for money saving tips, and there are hundreds of thousands available, but there are some that are not covered as often. Let’s endeavor to look at some of those. If you are spending money to keep your money in a bank such as [...]