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signs of troubled financial

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation offers the following guidelines to evaluate whether you are facing significant financial difficulties.

  • Loan payments, excluding mortgages, but including credit card charges, take up more than 20% of your monthly net income.
  • You are close to, or surpass, your credit card limit.
  • You must borrow to make payments on existing loans.
  • You only pay the minimum amount on your bill.
  • Lack of money is forcing you to pay bills late or postpone doctor’s visits.
  • You must work overtime, or take a second job, to cover basic living expenses.

Managing Personal Finances Part 02

Save

Another key aspect in the management of personal finances is having the ability to save, that is, to spend each month a portion of proceeds to a stock savings that help us to invest or emergency.

Some advice is to spend at least 10% of our total revenue savings this bag, this bag is in a bank account, and we spend this money before any other payment.

Investing

In addition to saving, we also have the ability to invest, ie to use the money we’ve saved in any investment vehicle, so we can make it grow.

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Managing Personal Finances Part 01

Knowing the financial situation

Know our financial situation is the starting point for the proper handling of our personal finances.

From the knowledge of our financial situation is we plan our personal finances, ie, we set our financial goals and design plans that allow us to achieve those goals.

Setting financial goals

Setting financial goals helps us guide and motivation to improve our financial situation, as well as allowing to measure our progress.

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Why have financial problems?

financial problemsNot to the point of talking at the level of the national economy, but rather trying to take as the axis focus to the subject or the person holding the money, we can say that A or key facto in this process is you. Robert Kiyosaki mentioned in many of his books that people are accustomed to bad money management. At this point I strongly agree with him. But the key question is: What factors contribute to our financial ignorance?

The answer is simple: financial education they gave us.

Until today I have not seen in schools and universities to touch issues about money management and personal finance. No topics such as taxes, banking. Issues that we deal with almost 80% of our lives. In other words, they are forgetting an important education 80%. Read the rest of this entry »

Tips to avoid financial problems

financial problemsWhat about friends, is a pleasure to be with you in this segment of finance. Then I will give you some tips that will serve to avoid financial problems in his family.

Make sure your spouse and children, understand that all together must meet a series of steps to maintain the economy.

· Make a realistic budget and stick to it. This includes a periodic check and adjustment of their numbers and spending habits.

• Do not buy impulsively. When you see something that has not planned to buy, avoid doing so, think twice.

· Buy something they can afford at the moment. Do not pay expenses in the future, credit cards can betray your budget unconsciously. Read the rest of this entry »

Tips to Improve Personal Finance Problems? Part 3

Finance ProblemsTip 2: Have a spending plan

The famous phrase “the money I was out of control” or “money burning me” has to do with the lack of planning and cost control. Precisely the mistake that many people earlier this month (according to various studies) is beginning to pay bills, to see what you spend money on some things and then end of the month begins to squeeze what little money they have left. So they made a pick, started with no money charged, they began to spend and ended the month as beginning to reduce costs.

Using a spending plan, you can try to maintain a balance and even realize the things you really enjoy and which spends so. For example, I spent a lot in magazines, until I realized that ultimately ended without reading some or read it in half. By controlling my spending, I decided to just buy the magazines that I really cared or needed, even enjoyed it more because I gave them a good time. Read the rest of this entry »