A Canadian's Guide to Money-Smart Living

by Kelley Keehn, Alex Fisher

A Canadian’s Guide to Money-Smart Living will help the reader to understand how to live money-smart, providing step-by-step instructions on how to take control of his or her financial future.

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Many of us feel that managing our money and financial future is hard work and out of our control, which often leads to us ignoring the issue or putting it off for another day, week or year. Simple everyday solutions are available. These start with learning the basics, being comfortable with the topic of money in the household and finally, asking a financial expert the right questions.

Genres: Finance, Self Help, Canada

176 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 29, 2019

Reviews

[Meg]

Always depressing

[Michelle]

A very basic book for those that don’t have a lot of knowledge about their finances and options. I am an accredited Financial Planner and review books to see what may be suitable to refer to clients. I think this would be a great book to recommend to someone starting out in the workforce and fairly inexperienced.

[Vivian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative book and realistic for Canadians looking for basic money knowledge. It appears the author has resided in Toronto. It encourages to save money no matter what point in life you are at and to always keep learning. There are chapters on types of accounts, credit cards, needs vs. wants, etc.

[Ashley]

Simple and straight-forward beginner's guide. Was useful is describing some of the simple types of accounts/investment types (RRSP vs TFSA. Mutual funds vs ETF/Index funds). The downside to a book like this is that they can become outdated quickly- reading about 'historically low interest rates' in 2021 is laughable as well as the numbers used for the mortgage calculations. No real advice on getting out of debt.

[Sydney Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read, finished in one day! Learned a great deal and took a lot of notes and made myself a financial to-do list. Will probably come back to this book in the future as there is a lot of information I don't necessarily need now but will eventually.

[Lana Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for an absolute beginner to the world of personal finance in Canada

Didn’t really learn anything new but there are not as many Canadian specific personal finance books so it’s good to have more variety.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative!!

[Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm taxed after that one

[Amanda Morrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used this for a workshop I'm building. Had some great info (albeit outdated in some areas) and good comprehensive case studies.

[Sunni | vanreads]

A good intro book for people who are clueless about finances, but doesn’t go very in depth. I was hoping for more information on investing but I don’t think this is the book for that.