Turn Chaos into Cash: A Complete Guide to Organizing and Managing Your Personal Finances

Covers record keeping, banking, checking accounts, debt, investments, and home improvement, and includes useful forms

This book presents both a method for organizing personal financial records and a philosophy on money. Its strength is in its method of organization, which is a paper-based system. Once set up, the user needs 20 minutes each week to update the records. Many work sheets and forms are included. The philosophy on money management is the weaker portion of the book: some of the suggestions go against usual financial guidance recommendations. For example, the author encourages the use of credit cards but discourages the use of checks and budgets. Overall, the book offers a tested and easy-to-implement method for organizing financial records, but is pervaded by the author's philosophy of money which may work for some, but not all people.
- Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Lib., West Lafayette, Ind.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.