Financial counseling is assisting clients in the development and creative use of all their resources to achieve economic financial security or well-being by generating alternatives from which the client chooses. Ultimately the client is assisted to improve quality of life with less wasteful resources. The processes are: (more…)

You can keep your financial documents in different places—in a home file, in a safe-deposit box, or on a computer. To organize your documents as effectively as possible, you may want to use all three. Each method has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the types of documents being kept.

A home file is one place to keep financial documents. (more…)

In examining your financial condition and setting financial goals, you succeeded in nailing down where you are and where you’re going financially. But it’s important that you conduct these exercises at least annually. Keep the cash in a checking account, and watch it disappear! Wouldn’t it be better to put all the money you’ve saved on that extravaganza toward financing your child’s pay college education? (more…)

Successful financial plan must include or take into account the following condition:

- It is based on ‘hard’ facts, such as age, earnings, health, investments; and ‘soft’ data such as attitudes, beliefs and values.

- The plan must be a clearly written, logical document that uses language appropriate to the individual. (more…)

Renting a home or apartment is an issue of broad interest. That’s because, whether you’re still in school or not long removed, chances are fairly good that you’re renting, are thinking about renting, or, at the very least, are giving some thought to changing a renting arrangement. Obviously, this article can’t go into the particulars of all sorts of rental situations if nothing else, market conditions are drastically different across the country but we can touch on some major points to help with your rent (more…)

Now that your most important financial goals have been defined and you have a basic idea of what it will take to accomplish them, the following three financial exercises will help you determine your overall financial condition:

Completion of a Personal Income Statement. (more…)

Why should you keep your financial documents in a specific place?

You can use computers for the purpose of financial record keeping documents. To organize your documents as effectively as possible, you may want to use others like home file and safe-deposit box. Each method has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the types of documents being kept. (more…)

For several months we have been hearing information about Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF), without knowing exactly what they mean. In this issue we make a brief introduction and explain why they are so especially useful in times like this.

SWFs are state funds that grow as a country is successful in (more…)

Assets are things of value, because it can be exchange into cash. Your assets include real estate property you personally own and some of your financial investment. On the other hands you have debts as your liabilities. For this case, your home is your asset, but the mortgage of your home is your liability.

Assets include real estate, personal property and all your financial assets. (more…)

If a review of your net worth suggests that something needs to be done to improve your financial situation, the best way to understand the problem is to compare what you earn to what you spend. This is called a cash flow analysis. It gets to the basic question of how much of your income is spent on debt service, consumption, and savings. (more…)