Standard & Poor's Guide to Understanding Personal Finance

by Virginia B. Morris, Kenneth Morris

Streamlined, straightforward, and simple to read guides from Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press.

The easiest way to get a grip on personal finance, investing, and retirement

From the world's leading financial analysts and investor education specialists comes an invaluable foundation of knowledge for every kind of investment you want to make. These guides, a collaboration between Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press, use clear language and informative graphics to demystify financial topics. The books make it easy for you to navigate the financial markets and understand the basics of investing and personal finance.

This guide provides the essential information you need to manage money and make key financial decisions. From saving for college to planning for retirement, the guide provides a concise look at saving, investing, credit, home ownership, insurance, and more.

Genres: Finance

176 pages, Paperback

First published October 2, 2006

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book Guide to understanding Personal Finance is a very help book to help someone with any type of economical question they could have. This book maybe help full but it is very hard to keep reading it, because it is more of a test type of book rather than your standard book. It is more fun to read than a normal text book, but I would much rather read a normal style of a book.
One thing that this book helped me learn what to start planning for now. Such as going to college and have a plan read before I go so that I am ready to go. This is so, because you need to be ready to deal with it. One example of it helping you is it gives you a lot of options so you can learn them. Also this book would be very easy to take notes on if you had to do assignment you wanted to right all the facts. . But over all this is a very help full book in learning personal finances and other economic questions.
There is many things that are unlike able in this book, one is that it is very difficult to stay intercede in the book. When I was reading this book it was very hard to try to keep focus on reading because there is a lot going on in one page. This could either be a challenge or a benefit to some people. If you are a visual learner it will help you tremendously. But over all this is a very help full book in learning personal finances and other economic questions.

[Benjamin · Rating 4 out of 5]

No-nonsense guide to personal finance that you can understand. It doesn't go into a great deal of detail, but it answers a lot of questions that lots of people never bother to ask but maybe should.