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Why Increase Your Financial Intelligence?
So far our discussion has been pretty abstract. We have been introducing you to the art of finance and explaining why understanding it is an essential ingredient of financial intelligence. Now let’s revisit the issue we posed in the preface: the benefits of financial intelligence. With a little art-of-finance discussion under your belt, you can understand in greater depth what this book can teach you and what you will gain from reading it.
For starters, we want to emphasize that this book is different from other finance books. It doesn’t presuppose any financial knowledge. But neither is it another version of Accounting for Dummies. We will never mention debits and credits. We won’t ever refer to the ...
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