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Customers find the book engaging and informative. They appreciate the good advice and knowledge it provides about finances. The information is explained in simple terms and is easy to understand. Readers consider it a worthwhile investment and recommend it for young people.
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Gia-Hung –
Personal Finance 101
This book give the layman, logical, and sensible steps on how to champion your personal finance. A must-read for all Canadians who wants to build financial stability without any gimmicks.
Tamara –
Highly recommend!
This is an excellent book. I love that it is specific to the Canadian investment landscape, as so many books are for American audiences. It is an easy read and funny! Actually funny! It touches on so many topics that are important to understand and plan for, but often feel too complex to tackle (retirement, mortgages, lines of credit, etc). This would make a great gift, especially to younger people.My only complaint is about the delivery. The corner of the book got smashed in transit. It’s a shame since I like to keep my books in really good condition.
Mark S –
Great starting book
I really enjoyed reading this book, it is a great general personal finance book that covers a lot of the basics and sets the stage for furthering your knowledge. It covers the basics of savings, investing, debt, your first job, and spending.The book covers the basics of the following areas, I included a recommended book to further your knowledge on each one.1. Money Self Checkup – Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together2. Budgets – Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 20183. Financial Products 101 – further reading I Will Teach You To Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program that Works4. Debt management & Student loans – further reading Debt Free By 305. Living within your means – Further reading – The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy6. Negotiating your salary – further reading – Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In7. investing – further reading – The Wealthy Barber Returns8. Major life events – No further reading required.
Amazon Customer –
Just what I was looking for
I really enjoyed this book. I am a university student and wanted to learn more about personal finance. I especially liked that the book was written by a Canadian so it was specific to the laws, taxes, types of bank accounts that we have. It covered a lot, which is what I was hoping for, like RRSPs, TFSAs, mortgages and down payments, credit cards, how to save money, etc. I had very limited prior knowledge on these topics before reading. It was definately a good book for someone who does not know a lot about money, and I learned a lot from it.
rxguy –
Excellent, fun and easy to read starter guide to personal finance!
I’m a recent University grad and had so many questions about personal finance, how to save for retirement and balance the many different financial challenges life throws at us. This book was easy to read, offered great perspectives on TFSA vs RRSPs, how mortgages work, and even buying vs leasing cars. There were all kinds of extra “life tips” that were very useful. All in straight forward language without financial mumbo jumbo. It was just what I needed. I highly recommend this book to anyone getting started with personal finance!
Aran –
Humorous&easy read for anyone looking to learn how to better manage their finances in Canada
I’m still reading this. Its incredibly easy to read, the author gives great scenarios in order to paint a picture to understand how dept and credit work. This isn’t for millennial its for everyone. I did extensive research on books of this type. Very few that are easier to digest to newbs to the details of the finance world are actually written by Canadians for Canadians so the info in this book is extremely valuable to me. The author has a great sense of humour as well! I’d highly recommend!
Amazon Customer –
Not bad!
I thought it was great for anyone under 30 (basically the intent of the author). The choices for a larger house, etc was quite good and simple. However, I do have one huge negative. Not sure how the author can write for newspapers, write books, etc without knowing one basic element to disparaging mutual funds. His claim is that mutual fund posted rates are before fees, they are AFTER. The posted rates for mutual fund fees (MERS) are deducted before they are posted. Such a simple miss, but so important for anyone trying to choose between mutual funds and ETFs. It made me very suspect about the rest of the book, but as said before he did a very good job all in all.
Lilvon –
Great book
As a young adult this is a great book for starting out. I learned a lot in this book that I didn’t learn from my parents or in school (even though some of it seems like basic info). Great information on what bank accounts to choose. Wish I read this before I read more complicated personal finance and investing books.Great from a first time home buyer standpoint. I’m sure the tips are also great for people who have been investing/ managing their money for longer than I have as well.
Rishu –
Good read. It teaches concepts on developing good habits to manage your financial health. I had hoped there would be more in-depth information on investment strategies and tax efficiency.
Edward A Kennedy –
So nothing revolutionary, but a good bit of info for the uninitiated. Money is a mysterious thing for many and this gives some good basic guidance.
G. Collector –
Very basic here is the advice. Buy a cheap house, pay off your mortgage as quick as possible and all other debt is bad.A waste of money and time. Do not buy.