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Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Financial Tips for Guarding the Public Checkbook

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An excellent budget, financial and treasury primer.
Excellent reading for the Government Watchdog
Great book for people interested in local government.
A Guide for Achieving Job Longevity in the Public Sector

Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Financial Tips for Guarding the Public Checkbook
Len Wood
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0963437437

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City, county and school district elected officials annually deal with multi-million, sometime billion dollar budgets. But many have little, if any, knowledge about local government financial matters when first elected. Written in an easy to understand style, this book provides beginning and seasoned elected officials and public administrators with the fiscal awareness to confidently make good budget and financial decisions. Local government is more complex today and there are more opportunities for poor judgement, conflicts of interest, embezzlement and fraud. The best antidote is an informed constituency that insists on good government and accountability. Community members, homeowners groups, business people, unions, service organizations, public watchdogs and newspaper reporters who want to assess their local elected officials' performance will find this book invaluable. Each chapter begins with a real life story such as the city manager who used the city's credit card to go on an lavish shopping spree, the city that used debt to mask it's huge deficit or the school superintendent who sacrificed the district's solvency to create an award winning curriculum. Vignettes from over 77 different local governments across the country are used to buttress the suggested tips and techniques.

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An excellent budget, financial and treasury primer........1999-03-18

As an elected Treasurer and local government finance director for the past several years, I found this book to be an excellent primer for all elected and appointed officials. The practical advice offered by Mr. Wood is based on his experience and input from his peers and is extremely valuable. The book is written in a very informal and concise way and should be required reading for all elected officials. In fact, I gave this book to each City Council member and they have all indicated that this book provided excellent financial advice.

Excellent reading for the Government Watchdog.......1998-09-30

Len Wood presents Dollars and Sense in a practical manner enabling readers to absorb its content. A must read book for those that "watch" their local governments, school districts and elected officials. Written for fast reading,yet covers the subject matter extensively. If you want to be certain your local government is working at its fullest potential, Dollars & Sense can be a great help to you.

Great book for people interested in local government........1998-06-14

What a delightful book. The author has presented his subject in an understandable and capitivating manner. He does this by using lots of real life vignettes to make his points. People who want to know what their local officials should and should not be doing will want to read this book.

A Guide for Achieving Job Longevity in the Public Sector.......1998-05-06

Here is a "no holds barred" approach to describing "real life" shortcomings in handling public finances, and then providing tips to local government policy makers and managers on how to avoid a similiar circumstance.

Len Wood writes from first hand knowledge and experience. He describes the situation; outlines the facts; details the results; and provides the reader with suggestions to lessen financial risk and/or failure in the expenditure of public funds.

While the author's primary target is the newly elected official, the importance of this work to experienced elected and appointed public officals cannot be overstated. No one who has worked in the public sector can peruse this book without saying, "There, but for the grace of God, go I!"

Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All
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Good Background and Ideas!

No idea what he's talking about

Intelligent, inspiring, and practical

Chock full of facts and logic

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Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All
Robert Egger
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060541717
Release Date: 2004-02-17

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You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference?

Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger asked himself this same question as he reluctantly climbed aboard a food service truck for a night of volunteering to help serve meals to the homeless. He wondered why there were still people waiting in line for soup in this day and age. Where were the drug counselors, the job trainers, and the support team to help these men and women get off the streets? Why were volunteers buying supplies from grocery stores when restaurants were throwing away unused fresh food every night? Why had politicians, citizens, and local businesses allowed charity to become an end in itself? Why wasn't there an efficient way to solve the problem?

Robert knew there had to be a better way. In 1989, he started the D.C. Central Kitchen by collecting unused food from local restaurants, caterers, and hotels and bringing it back to a central location where hot, nutritious meals were prepared and distributed to agencies around the city. Since then, the D.C. Central Kitchen has been named one of President Bush Sr.'s Thousand Points of Light and has become one of the most respected and emulated nonprofit agencies in the world, producing and distributing more than 4,000 meals a day. Its highly successful 12-week job-training program equips former homeless transients and drug addicts with culinary and life skills to gain employment in the restaurant business.

In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out. In his entertaining and inimitable way, he weaves stories from his days in music, when he encountered legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and Iggy Pop, together with stories from his experiences in the hunger movement -- and recently as volunteer interim director to help clean up the beleaguered United Way National Capital Area. He asks for nonprofits to be more innovative and results-driven, for corporate and nonprofit leaders to be more focused and responsible, and for citizens who contribute their time and money to be smarter and more demanding of nonprofits and what they provide in return. Robert's appeal to common sense will resonate with readers who are tired of hearing the same nonprofit fund-raising appeals and pity-based messages. Instead of asking the "who" and "what" of giving, he leads the way in asking the "how" and "why" in order to move beyond our 19th-century concept of charity, and usher in a 21st-century model of change and reform for nonprofits.

Enlightening and provocative, engaging and moving, this book is essential reading for nonprofit managers, corporate leaders, and, most of all, any citizen who has ever cared enough to give of themselves to a worthy cause.

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Good Background and Ideas!.......2006-03-16

Eighty-four Americans volunteer with a charity, and $200 billion is contributed every year. "Begging for Change" summarizes Robert Egger looking back on his experiences (first running successful night clubs, then a non-profit kitchen and training program) and offering his critique of the $800 billion non-profit world in general.

A key Egger point is that non-profits need to ask: "Are you perpetuating a cycle of need and dependency?" Today charity is governed by innumerable individuals and their egos, many of which are "business-as-usual" career do-gooders who've never run their own company. Many duplicate each others' services and fight each other for funding. They talk of how many were fed or sheltered, but not about how many got out of dependency.

There now are more than 1.5 million non-profits, and their latest evolution is to "realize" that they have to pay those at the top well to attract good people. Thus, in D.C. there are about 25,000 non-profits, requiring over $1.5 billion just for CEO and executive director salaries! Yet, over 70% have revenues less than $500,000/year, and neither government nor Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" act to make those that are ineffective go away. Many should.

In addition, there is the needless complexity added by multiple funding sources and their frequent "strings." One non-profit gets its $20 million from 161 sources - think of all the attention required to mind all those masters!

Egger started a training program for cooks, food-handlers, and servers - thus, both offering them a "hand-up" (instead of just a "hand-out") and substantially reducing the need for full-time assistants. Many fail, but many more succeed; even a substantial number of those that fail initially (drug tests, absences) reform, come back, and later complete the program.

Another important Egger point is that companies interested in helping the poor should first focus on paying their own employees well enough so that they can succeed, rather than paying them so little that they cannot succeed and then wondering how to help others that are downtrodden.

Another Egger innovation was to realize that local catering services were always being leaned on by non-profits to provide deeply discounted services. Egger offered to take that business over with his staff in training - and thus relieved them of a burden while providing his trainees with an important opportunity to demonstrate their talents first-hand to society's higher-ups. He also briefly illustrates examples where organizations provide for-profit services while focusing on hiring those with checkered or limited backgrounds.

Egger points out that the aging Baby Boom will soon provide a test of our social services as they move into old age and increasingly require more services.

Finally, Egger suggests that "more" is not always "better." For example, if his organization held a fund-raiser to renovate or acquire new facilities, that would deplete resources available in the community for other needy organizations.

Egger's examples of systems thinking and sacrifice by those at the top (Egger took only a $50,000 salary while heading the D.C. United Fund) should be taken to heart by all non-profits (especially the Red Cross) and the government (with its many overlapping and conflicting programs).

No idea what he's talking about .......2006-01-25

Egger dismisses the work of fundraising revolutionaries like Dan Pallotta without really understanding what Pallotta was about. With Egger's "vision" non-profits would stay small, pay their workers miserly wages, and the next generation of fundraisers would be wise to look for better paying work. Pathetic lack of fundraising innovation.

Intelligent, inspiring, and practical.......2005-12-11

As a person inexperienced with community foundations or nonprofit organizations and now on a foundation committee, I found Mr. Egger's book to be colorful, amusing, down to earth and imminently practical. To think that someone in the seemingly shallow entertainment business could turn around and use his knowledge to change nonprofits and foundations into dynamic enterprises with enthusiastic participants at all levels is exremely inspiring.

Chock full of facts and logic.......2005-12-01

Egger's book is an excellent combination of facts, cause-effect logic and practical suggestions on how to make charity much more life-changing for the recipients. As a Hurricane Katrina victim, I know first hand how little meaningful help comes from big not-for-profits and government. The system is crying for reform. Eggers has an approach that works better than many current ones. People in positions of authority need to listen and change behaviors.

Brown, Dartmouth to Cease Operations in Ivy Streamlining Move.......2005-09-21

Ivy league schools Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Dartmouth University in Hannover, New Hampshire, have separately announced that they are ceasing operations.

Both decisions are said to be in response to a new book by Robbie Eager, former interim director of the United Way of the National Capital Area.

The book, Begging for Change (HarperCollins), is currently garnering rave reviews from sources as disparate as USA Today and Oprah Winfrey.

One of the Eager's principal observations is that there are far too many nonprofits offering duplicate services, which prompted leaders at both schools to take this unprecedented step. 'This book was a real 'aha' moment for me,' reflects Dartmouth board chair Susan Dentzer, who is also correspondent for the Jim Lehrer NewsHour on PBS.

'I interviewed Eager about his book and when he mentioned that probably 25% of nonprofits were unnecessary I was, like, of course! Why didn't I see it? Who are we trying to kid with eight Ivy League schools? It's not really about 335 years of academic excellence any more, it's just an ego trip!'

Dentzer points out that New England has more than its share of Ivy League schools and that the pruning here was long overdue. Events fell into place quickly.

Dentzer called Dartmouth President James Wright, who immediately bought into the concept. Says Wright, 'The amazing thing was when I called Ruth [Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons] to tell her, she had already read the book and was thinking the same thing. Synchronicity!' Simmons had brought her own thoughtful consideration of urban transformation to the decision to throw in the towel.

'Now that Providence has become established in the industry as a prime location for shooting major motion pictures such as There's Something About Mary and other Farrelly Brothers films, its days as an academic center are numbered. With emerging 24/7 broadband entertainment options right around the corner, it's really time to move on.'

One immediate result will be to change the traditional match-ups that cap the Ivy League football season. 'Princeton-Columbia carries much more marketing potential than Princeton-Dartmouth or Columbia-Brown, especially in New York' says Carm Cozza, former Yale head coach who is now heading up fund-raising efforts to restore the Yale Bowl.

'Ivy football is already looking at tie-ins with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to p ut Thanksgiving on the map from a sports media standpoint, right up there with New Year's Day.'

To deal with the shortened Ivy schedule, the remaining schools plan to host matches between other, non Ivy schools, to the delight of current students. 'Next year we're going to see Notre Dame vs. Penn State at Harvard Stadium rather than Harvard vs. Brown. How cool is that?' gushes Harvard Junior LilithJason Nguyen-O'Malley.

'It's just another example of the outside-the-box thinking engendered by Eager's thin volume,' observes Wright.

'Who would have guessed that his prior life of managing bars and promoting punk rock concerts would lead to such laser sharp insights to correct the failings of our tradition-bound nonprofits?'

The Brown and Dartmouth combined endowments of approximately $7 billion are being transferred to a newly formed Chinese foundation. 'The focus of the new foundation will be to address the emerging hunger problems caused by the graying of the baby-boom generation,' says Simmons, another point raised by Eager's book, and supported by the same thin statistical calculations; but who needs those when you have have the right mojo?

'We see this as more compatible with our charitable mission. It's like the proverb: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and the teacher eats all semester.' Details about the Chinese foundation, to be called the Brownmouth Qing Jiang Trust, were not immediately available.

Under China's newly enacted Charitable Transparency Act, charitable foundation records are made fully available to the public after 1,000 years.

Talking Dollars and Making Sense: A Wealth Building Guide for African-Americans

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African American Success
Making Sense of Our Dollars
Very good book for novice investors
A Must for Anyone and race should not matter
Required Reading

Talking Dollars and Making Sense: A Wealth Building Guide for African-Americans
Brooke Stephens
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Book Description

African-americans control more than $400 billion in income. But when it comes to managing money, like everyone else, they have been poorly educated in the basics. In Talking Dollars and Making Sense, noted African-American financial planner Brooke Stephens, offers prudent and sensitive advice on money mangement that will help you take control of your finances and plan more effectively for the future. Written within the social, cultural, and historical framework of the African-American experience, this book honestly examines the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of African-Americans and their finances.

Stephens handily covers the basics of wealth-building, including:

Goal-setting
Managing credit
Home-buying
Investing
Insurance
Tax strategies
Educating children about money

Talking Dollars and Making Sense goes beyond simple financial planning, discussing the specific financial dilemmas African-Americans often find themselves in. Filled with anecdotes, quotes, aphorisms, and profiles of contemporary and historical trailblazers who have had an impact on the economic life of their communities, this guide to financial freedom will help your sense of the intracacies of money management and to achieve your financial goals.

Customer Reviews:

African American Success .......2005-10-08

Brooke Stephens is a valued member in the African American community, her contributions are culturally constructive, professionally progressive, and economically empowering.

We support her because her goal is to empower us.

BTW, those who gave Brooke's book a rating of 4 or more, we clicked `yes' for the question "Was this review helpful to you?" Even in this little way we empower one another.

Making Sense of Our Dollars.......2002-11-10

I have read this book and found it be be very insightful and informative. I would highly recommend this resource to those taking a looking at their financdial status and making corrective changes. This is a timely work. This resource is packed with information from cover to cover. I appreciate all that the author intended to do and accomplish with this work. Take the time to sit down and read this book for encouragment to do better financial management and control of your personal financial destiny.

Very good book for novice investors.......2002-03-27

While some of the information in this book is outdated, it gives the new investor some good knowledge to build on.

A Must for Anyone and race should not matter.......2001-07-19

I read this book about three years ago when I was deeply in debt always borrowing from one credit card to pay another credit card. After reading this book I stopped making Tommy Hilfiger, Perry Ellis and Ralph Lauren so rich and started paying myself and it has paid off in ways I could not imagine. I don't have ten credit cards anymore and I don't bounce checks anymore either, but instead I am reading Black Enterprise and the Wall Street Journal looking for the best investment opportunities.

Required Reading.......2000-12-28

This book should be read by every african-american. While I was reading I thought she was talking about me. We seem to spend more money on unnecessary things and worry and complain about how we are going to pay those high interest credit cards. I now look at life and living a whole lot different. I have passed the book on to other family members in hopes that it changes their lives like it has changed mine.

Real World Globalization: A Reader in Business, Economics and Politics, 9th edition

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Real World Globalization: A Reader in Business, Economics and Politics, 9th edition
Betsy Rakocy; Alejandro Reuss; Chris Sturr; The Dollars & Sense Collective
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Real World Globalization is an essential guide to rapidly changing trends in global trade, investment, labor relations, and economic development. Its 74 articles provide jargon-free introductions to trade and financial institutions, work in the global economy, international debt, and global environmental, health, and resource issues. An extensive chapter on economic development critically analyzes neoliberal strategies in coutries from Mexico to China, and features a debate on the significance of rich nations' agricultural subsidies. The ninth edition is thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded - with over 40 new articles. It includes chapters on the political economy of war and imperialism, and on alternatives to neoliberalism. A new tenth chapter compiles Nick Thorkelson's "Comic Strips of Neoliberalism."

Bridal Bargains Wedding Planner: The Dollars & Sense Guide to Planning Your Wedding

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Bridal Bargains Wedding Planner: The Dollars & Senise Guide to Planning Your Wedding
Not as helpful as the bridal bargain book
bridal bargain planner
WONDERFUL!!!

Bridal Bargains Wedding Planner: The Dollars & Sense Guide to Planning Your Wedding
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The Bridal Bargains Wedding Planner helps couples solve the most fundamental problem about putting together a wedding in 2007: how to afford it! This organizer includes detailed worksheets, checklists, and calendars, along with detailed website resources and in-depth tips on how to personalize the wedding. The authors’s step-by-step approach to the planning process and leaves no detail uncovered, even the honeymoon. Best of all, the Bridal Bargains Wedding Planner features a semiconcealed spiral binding that makes it easier to carry and use.

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Bridal Bargains Wedding Planner: The Dollars & Senise Guide to Planning Your Wedding.......2007-05-31

This is great! And...I got it really fast!

Not as helpful as the bridal bargain book.......2007-05-19

I had bought this planning book because I really like the the other book Bridal Bargains written by the same author Denise Fields. I'm in the process of planning of my wedding, and so far the only part that helped me was the first one or two chapters on setting a wedding budget. The rest I thought was too general. I was able to find most of the same or more information from surfing the web. Again, for a much better buy, get the Bridal Bargains book instead.

bridal bargain planner.......2007-05-14

I enjoyed looking through this wedding planner workbook, designed to go with the book of the similar name. It has additional hints and tips not in the book, and plenty of places to write down lists of things that are important to weddings. I bought it for my 25 year old daughter who loves to organize and plan things - especially for her own wedding - and a person like her will use it. If you are not a "write down" planner type of person, maybe just the book would be enough.

WONDERFUL!!!.......2007-02-07

this is an excellent planner. it has everything i would have expected from a wedding planning guide and then some. i would reccomend this for anyone because it really has something for everyone.

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A TERRIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL TOOL

Real World Macro, 23rd Edition
Daniel Fireside , John Miller , and The Dollars & Sense Collective
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Binding: Paperback
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Real World Macro, 23rd edition, is a lively, thought-provoking alternative to mainstream economics textbooks. Real World Macro asks the questions that standard textbooks try to avoid: What's so great about growth? Is unemployment "natural"? Why should inequality matter?

Along with covering the basics--monetary and fiscal policy, productivity and investment, inflation and unemployment-- Real World Macro includes a chapter on major controversies in macroeconomics, such as the legacy of Keynesianism in the United States and the basics of Marxist economic theory. It also takes a look at international trade and finance, covering such topics as the debt crisis and arguments for and against "free trade."

The thoroughly updated and revised 23rd edition contains new chapter introductions reviewing the concepts examined in each article, discussion questions relating them to a standard textbook, and new articles addressing the latest real world issues and controversies, including topics like Social Security, the housing bubble, offshoring, the declining dollar, tax cuts, and the persistence of the racial and gender gap in jobs and income.

While Real World Macro is a great supplement to any mainstream text, its articles have been keyed to David Colander's popular textbook, Economics, and its macroeconomics "split."

Real World Macro's engaging articles are drawn from the pages of Dollars & Sense, the award-winning magazine of popular economics. Dollars & Sense also publishes Real World Micro, Current Economic Issues, The Wealth Inequality Reader, Real World Globalization, Grassroots Journalism, Striking a Balance, Real World Banking, The Environment in Crisis, Introduction to Political Economy, and Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination.

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A TERRIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL TOOL.......2006-06-28

Real World Macro is a terrific instructional tool. Clear, accessible, and insightful, it will get your students up to speed faster than any other educational resource.

Joel Blau
School of Social Welfare
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Real World Micro, 13th Edition
Daniel Fireside , Chris Tilly , and The Dollars & Sense Collective
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Real World Micro, 13th edition, is a lively, thought provoking supplement to introductory and intermediate microeconomics textbooks. Real World Micro critically examines topics such as market power, the economics of the environment, and job discrimination, offering alternative perspectives designed to stimulate discussion. The articles bring complex topics to life by showing the effects of economic trends on communities, workers, and the environment.

In addition to covering the basics--supply and demand, production and consumption decisions, market structure and monopoly-- Real World Micro explores economic principles by discussing government policy and workplace issues. The new edition introduces tackles a range of hot-button topics, including tax policy, rent control, immigration, the Kyoto Accords, the Social Security debate, affordable housing, CEO compensation, the privatization of public goods like water, and the consequences of unchecked global and national inequality.

The thoroughly revised and expanded 13th edition also contains new chapter introductions reviewing the concepts examined in each article, as well as discussion questions relating them to a standard textbook. And while Real World Micro is an excellent supplement to any mainstream text, its articles have been keyed to David Colander's popular textbook, Economics, 6th edition, and its microeconomics "split."

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Brother and Sister Bear know some things about money. They know that money can be used to buy things like baseball cards, ice cream, candy, and balloons. What they don't know is how to manage their allowances.

Then Mama comes up with a terrific idea to help them learn the value of money and how to save it -- a checkbook! A series of tear-out checks is included in the book so that kids can use them at home just like the cubs do in Bear Country.

Customer Reviews:

Not a bad idea!.......2005-12-30

This book shows that brother and sister have no idea on how to save their money. Mama and Papa try just giving them their allowances to see how they would spend it instead of them just asking Papa for money all the time. Well, they gave it to them at the beginning of the week, at which time the cubs would make a mad dash to the store and spend the whole thing. They did that week after week until they decided that they needed more. So, Papa and Mama do increase their allowances, but instead of them running off and spending it, Mama gives them a checkbook which shows how much money they have. When they want something, they writea check for cash for Mama to cash and voila! They can buy their item.

What this book teaches is how to manage the money and actually see where it goes. I'm not sure the checkbook idea is a fantastic one, maybe more of a ledger system without the checks included would be better. Perhaps Mama should just keep their money in a type of bank and when the cubs want something, they could tell her how much it cost and actually see what they have left in their "accounts." That way, it's treated like a savings account instead of just a cash account. The main goal should be to teach kids to save their money, not spend it. But then that's another story...

I'm not sure that I really recommend this book or not. It's not a favorite in this house because it is quite "blah." It doesn't really enforce the money issue is a direct way, or so I think, but it is quite amusing to see the cubs' faces when they get their money for the week!

How to use a checkbook?.......2002-07-01

Stan and Jan should have left the topic of money management alone, especially considering they seem to have covered the subject quite well in the classic "Trouble With Money," published in 1983. Basically, this book tries to teach young children how to manage their money through the use of a checkbook and even includes sample checks for kids to write. Not a bad idea, I suppose, until you consider the fact that the kids who read this book are in first and second grade. Does that mean that we will be giving third and fourth graders credit cards in the near future? I hope not. To avoid any further cynicism, though, I urge parents to preview this book before purchasing, because it may not be what you first expect. The manuscript and drawings in "Dollars and Sense" are also decidedly second-rate. Instead, I highly recommend "The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money," for it is not only more sound and appropriate advice for the age level, but the the story and illustrations are also much more inspired.

I though this book was ok........2001-12-18

This was alright I though it shows the truth about money. But i think it would be better for the younger group of kids, like 3-5 year olds.

Kathy Kristof's Complete Book of Dollars and Sense: From Budget Basics to Lifetime Plans-The Only Guide You'll Need to Manage Your Money

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It's a great book.

Kathy Kristof's Complete Book of Dollars and Sense: From Budget Basics to Lifetime Plans-The Only Guide You'll Need to Manage Your Money
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ASIN: 0028608526

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For all of us whose financial lives look like our shoe closets, Kathy Kristof's Complete Book of Dollars and Sense is here to help. Specially designed to help readers sort through the tangle of bills and budgets, plans and projections, it offers simple steps to organize and take charge of our confusing finances. From putting together a beginners budget to creating a lifelong financial strategy, buying life insurance, or setting up a retirement plan, Kathy Kristof shows you how simple it is to find the answers. Best of all, Kristof has turned the complex financial formulas used by financial planners into a simple worksheet available in the book and on a special menu-driven Internet website. Now, anyone with a computer can quickly and easily perform an array of financial calculationsfrom what you need to put aside for a child's college expenses to how much you'll save on your mortgage by paying it off early. Kathy Kristofs Complete Book of Dollars and Sense shows you how easy it is to become your own financial planner.

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It's a great book........1999-07-02

Everyone should read this book!Now!It's the best book ever!It helped me through all of my financial problems.Buy it right now! I said NOW!Thank you for reading my input on this book{It's the truth!}

Dollars & Sense: A Moms Guide to Money Matters

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An excellent one-stop resource for basic money matters information

Dollars & Sense: A Moms Guide to Money Matters
Cynthia Sumner
Manufacturer: Revell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0800730615
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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Gone are the days when women left all money matters to the man of the family. Still, family finances continue to mystify many moms. Dollars & Sense is a practical, easy-to-understand guide that describes four money management styles that will help moms discuss and handle finances more effectively. Author Cynthia Sumner discusses a wide range of moms' financial concerns, from the big issues like how to save money, set goals, and teach kids responsible money habits to the knit-picky mechanics of managing bank accounts and establishing credit. No matter what their financial situation, moms everywhere will find these specific suggestions and practical tips invaluable as they learn how to regain or improve their family finances.

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An excellent one-stop resource for basic money matters information.......2006-01-13

Written by a mother of three with a degree in economics and an MBA with a concentration in finance, Dollars & Sense: A Mom's Guide to Money Matters is a straightforward guide written especially for fellow mothers, packed cover to cover with practical advice for protecting against identity theft, understanding the basics of credit, controlling debt, managing money by, for, and of kids, and much more. Written in plain terms, Dollars & Sense emphasizes finding successful financial techniques for oneself and one's family, and warns against common frauds in an increasingly connected and technology-savvy world. An excellent one-stop resource for basic money matters information.

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