Your Money, Your Life

About the Book

Millions of dollars pass through our hands in a lifetime. Manage it like a pro. Learn what to do and when to do it. Each decade of adult life has different financial challenges, e.g., house buying, borrowing (again and again), investing, college funding, retirement planning, etc. Your Money, Your Life: Stay Strong focuses one by one on those times and financial issues. The goal is to guide your efforts to produce the most lifetime financial benefits.

With simple language and clear directions, you are able to perform sophisticated financial analysis, e.g., cost/benefit estimation, net worth calculations, present/future valuations, and even estate and retirement planning. There are examples of each along with appropriate links to web resources in every chapter. You buy smart, borrow at lowest cost, find free money, and even manage your portfolio all the while knowing as much about your net worth as any lender. You even learn the buried secrets in credit reports and how to repair them.

Every financial decision of the typical adult life, for most of us most of the time, is broken down to its essential parts and described step by step.

About the Author

Dr. Cutler has a lifetime of financial experience. Twenty years as finance professor and department chair, Central Connecticut State University, followed a successful career in corporate and international finance at a Fortune 100 company. Dr. Cutler earned a PhD in finance from the University of Connecticut and focused her scholarship on international finance and financial education.

Eventually she realized that some of the most basic financial moves have the most lifetime benefits. Those moves can be readily applied by anyone, but the sooner the better. She wrote Your Money, Your Life: Stay Strong to pass these guidelines on to her grandchildren—again the sooner the better.