Your Money Is Your Business!

by Stephen Freeman


Formats

Softcover
£16.95
Softcover
£16.95

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 10/04/2017

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 8.25x11
Page Count : 382
ISBN : 9781524669164

About the Book

The book is intended to:

  • Be a financial literacy primer that motivates you to embark on a lifetime journey of continuous continuing education with the objective of becoming the best financial manager you have the capability to become.
  • Be a reference book that you can use over and over again as you would use a dictionary.
    • It’s organized to be a user-friendly learning tool that you can use like a textbook.
    • You might skim it and zero in on specific topics that grab your interest, or read it from cover to cover.
    • Chapters are organized by functional utility.
  • Help you start conversations with your family, friends, elected government representatives, and local school leaders about how to establish a mandatory financial literacy class in your local high school and how improving the overall level of financial literacy in your community will help create the strongest possible local economy.
  • Contribute to development of a field of study in behavioral personal finance – a field of study that seeks to help people develop good personal financial management behavioral habits.

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About the Author

A  40 year career in the surety bond industry gave Steve the opportunity to work with, and learn from, a wide variety of successful business people – company presidents, financial officers, CPA’s, bankers, financial advisors, business consultants, attorneys, and surety industry colleagues.  This experience provided continuous continuing education in business and financial management gained through activities such as analyzing and evaluating the business plans, financial statements, budget projections, management practices, and performance track records of all sorts of successful businesses. 
 
Experience in varied work and volunteer positions enabled him to learn about business and financial management from different perspectives:
Military: officer in the United States Army.
Non-profit organization paid employee: District Executive of the Boy Scouts of America.
Non-profit organization volunteer: officer and director positions in a number of trade associations; church board of trustees; officer of homeowners’ associations; coach of recreation league and youth sports teams.
Business: surety bond underwriter; surety company branch manager; partner in an insurance agency; officer of M&T Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of M&T Bank.
 
Experience as a parent helped him learn and re-learn valuable money management lessons, and how to talk about business and financial matters in terms young people understand.
 
Experience as a teacher of Junior Achievement classes and career related classes on business management and business finance gave him the opportunity to learn from preparing lesson plans and class presentations, students’ comments, information shared by students in class, and trying to answer students’ insightful questions. 
 
Formal education
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, University of New Hampshire
Master of Science, University of Baltimore 
United States Army: Infantry Officers Basic Class and Psychological Operations School
Boy Scouts of America: District Executive Training School
Aetna Casualty and Surety Company: Bond Trainee Program
Numerous continuing education classes and seminars