Essential Finance Series: Managing Credit. This item is unavailable.Essential Finance Series: Managing Credit

What you need to know to boost your buying power.

Managing your credit and understanding how to handle debt wisely shouldn't require hours of reading. In Managing Credit, the information is organized into concise, clear explanations that help you make sense of the process-quickly and easily. This book examines the details and breaks them down into manageable parts. It provides you with essential insights and tools to maximize your credit and use your buying power to its best advantage. Feel empowered, not enmeshed. Taking a clear, concise approach to money management, the Dorling Kindersley Essential Finance Series provides a practical and impartial resource to guide you through important financial decisions. Useful questionnaires pinpoint one's financial status while easy-to-use charts and graphs help track cash flow. Cut through the complexities of financial lingo and gain the confidence needed to build real financial security. Learn to live debt free, invest in the stock market, pay for a child's education, or plan for retirement. Filled with practical advice on all aspects of money management, this series offers an excellent foundation for building a personal finance library.

Robert McKinley is the founder and chief executive of Maryland-based CardWeb.com Inc. and London-based RAM Research Group. Both firms track the payment card industry, provide competitive information to the card industry, and provide comparative information to consumers. Mr. McKinley is a nationally recognized authority on consumer credit and has provided expert testimony in major industry litigation cases and congressional hearings. He is highly regarded by the national news media as a reliable source of credible data with the ability to speak fairly to consumer issues as well as business issues pertaining to the credit industry. Marc Robinson is co-founder of moneytours.com, a personal finance resource for corporations, universities, credit unions, and other institutions interested in helping their constituents make intelligent decisions about their financial lives. He wrote the original The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Markets, created The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance, co-published a personal finance series with Time Life Books, and wrote a children's book about onomatopoeia in different languages. In his two decades in the financial services industry, Marc has provided marketing consulting to many top Wall Street firms. He is admitted to practice law in New York State.