Finance: Plain and Simple
What you Need to Know to Make Better Financial Decisions
Published on 13. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-273-73129-0 (ISBN)
Description
Learn the fundamentals of financial language so you can make better financial decisions. This complete and easy-to-digest guide to financial jargon will show you how to understand finance, how to speak financial language, how to make better financial decisions and will show you how financial decision making affects you.
Finance Plain and Simple is for everyone who will need to make financial decisions throughout their lives - be it about pensions, savings, mortgages or investments.
This accessible book includes worked examples and case studies which illustrate how terms like AER and cash flow affect individual consumers.
Finance Plain and Simple is for everyone who will need to make financial decisions throughout their lives - be it about pensions, savings, mortgages or investments.
This accessible book includes worked examples and case studies which illustrate how terms like AER and cash flow affect individual consumers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-273-73129-0 (9780273731290)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sebastian Nokes has written a number of successful books on personal finance, management and strategy including The Definitive Guide to Project Management, now in its second edition, Measuring and Controlling IT Costs and StartUp.Com: Everything You Need to Know About Starting Up an Internet Company. Currently a Director of Aldersgate Partners, a management consulting firm, he has MSc in Finance and has worked for a leading investment bank.
Content
Part 1: Fundamentals of finance
1. Assets and liabilities
2. Time
3. Risk
4. Who? Whom? Interests and character
5. Options and their value
6. Pensions
7. Financial strategy and how to make financial decisions
Part 2: A financial product safari
8. Financial products
1. Assets and liabilities
2. Time
3. Risk
4. Who? Whom? Interests and character
5. Options and their value
6. Pensions
7. Financial strategy and how to make financial decisions
Part 2: A financial product safari
8. Financial products