Personal Finance For Dummies^®, 7th Edition

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You Can Skip or Skim

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Assessing Your Financial Fitness and Setting Goals

Part II: Spending Less, Saving More

Part III: Building Wealth through Investing

Part IV: Insurance: Protecting What You Have

Part V: Where to Go for More Help

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Assessing Your Financial Fitness and Setting Goals

Chapter 1: Improving Your Financial Literacy

Talking Money at Home

Identifying Unreliable Sources of Information

Understanding the dangers of free financial content online

Recognizing fake financial gurus

Publishers pandering to advertisers

Jumping over Real and Imaginary Hurdles to Financial Success

Discovering what (or who) is holding you back

Developing good financial habits

Chapter 2: Measuring Your Financial Health

Avoiding Common Money Mistakes

Determining Your Financial Net Worth

Adding up your financial assets

Subtracting your financial liabilities

Crunching your numbers

Interpreting your net worth results

Examining Your Credit Score and Reports

Understanding what your credit data includes and means

Obtaining your credit reports and score

Improving your credit reports and score

Getting credit report errors corrected

Knowing the Difference between Bad Debt and ...