Money: Your Personal Finance Guide

If you only buy one finance book this is one you want!

Everyone knows how important it is to make the most of their money. You try to spend wisely and save as much as you can. But to achieve true financial success you’ll have to move beyond the basics and learn about money management.

Packed with loads of good advice about important money matters, Money gives you the information you’ve been looking for. This book will walk you through the basics of setting up a financial plan and help you achieve your goals. And the bonus is in the last six chapters where Dee Lee helps the reader figure out how to handle the different money roles we take on at different stages of their lives; what you need to know as someone’s spouse, ex-spouse, widow(er), parent, child or partner.

Dee believes that if you follow her easy steps six easy steps you will be successful in learning to managing your money

1. Figure out where your money goes each month. Do you have more month than money?

2. Get out of Debt. This may mean drastic measures such as "plastic surgery".

3. Set up a spending plan. Budgeting is not fun but there are some easy ways to save money.

4. Make use of your retirement plan at work. Start with contributing 1 or 2 percent if that’s all you can afford.

5. Learn about investing. You want your money working hard for you.

6. Learn how to use insurance and estate planning to protect those hard earned assets and your dependents.

Dee Lee is a Certified Financial Planner and writing books to help educate the financial consumer is a passion for her. She is the author of several other books on personal finance, Women & Money, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Retiring Earl, Let’s Talk Money, and The Complete idiot’s Guide to 401(k) Plans.

Dee conducts financial workshops across the country in many different venues. These workshops focus on educating and motivating individuals to take charge of their finances and begin to plan for their future.

Gifted in speaking to audiences who possess varying degrees of financial sophistication, Dee designs workshops that educate and entertain. Dee has a passion for educating women and works with state treasurers around the country to produce the Women & Money conferences, so a book dedicated to women and money was a natural.

Because of her broad financial knowledge base, Dee is often consulted as an expert for many TV and radio stations across the country and is a regular contributor to CNBC’s Power Lunch and CNNfn.

You can hear Dee every afternoon on WBZ 1030 am radio in Boston giving personal financial advice.