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Quicken 2010 The Official Guide (Quicken Press)
Maria Langer
$15.53

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The Only Official Guide to the #1 Personal Finance Software

Manage your finances and assets with ease! Quicken 2010: The Official Guide is packed with insider tips and expert techniques for tracking your income, expenses, savings, transactions, investments, and so much more.

Fully endorsed by Intuit, makers of Quicken, this official guide saves you time and money by showing you how to maximize all of the software's powerful capabilities--including new features and hidden gems. You'll get valuable guidance along with information about online resources to help you make strategic financial decisions and plan for a secure future.

Customize Quicken for your preferences
Track your cash flow
Set up Online Account Services
Automate transactions and tasks
Reconcile checking, savings, and credit cards accounts
Track investments and optimize your portfolio
Monitor assets and loans
Manage household records
Reduce debt, save money, and plan for retirement
Simplify tax preparation and maximize deductions

Maria Langer is a freelance writer, helicopter pilot, and long-time Quicken user. A former financial analyst with a degree in accounting, she is the bestselling author of the previous editions of this book.

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The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide: Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times
Martin D. Weiss
$33.98

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An insightful look at how to protect, save, and grow wealth in difficult economic times

Having an effective financial and personal plan for the future is now more crucial than ever. And with the bestselling The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide now in paperback, you'll quickly learn how to create such a plan. This comprehensive guide was especially designed to help people map out a practical financial plan in this unpredictable economic environment, so that they can stop worrying about their money and just enjoy life.

Step by step, Martin Weiss-America's Consumer Advocate for Financial Safety-introduces, explains, and helps solve many of the new challenges and risks that face millions of Americans. Throughout the book, Weiss provides you with sound strategies for coping with the credit crunch, housing bust, and decline of the U.S. dollar.

Discusses different ways to adapt to the realities of continuous market volatility
Contains solutions to dealing with sinking real estate or falling stocks
Examines the opportunities you'll have to buy choice assets at bargain prices during a depressed economy

The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide also examines important topics that today's investor must be familiar with-including global investing, foreign currencies, and commodities-if they intend to make it through the decade ahead.

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Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions (Wiley Finance)
Joshua Pearl
$46.88

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In the constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Due to the fast-paced nature of this world, however, no one has been able to take the time to properly codify the lifeblood of the corporate financier’s work—namely, valuation. Rosenbaum and Pearl have responded to this need by writing the book that they wish had existed when they were trying to break into Wall Street.

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions is a highly accessible and authoritative book that focuses on the primary valuation methodologies currently used on Wall Street—comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, and LBO analysis. These methodologies are used to determine valuation for public and private companies within the context of M&A transactions, LBOs, IPOs, restructurings, and investment decisions. Using a step-by-step how-to approach for each methodology, the authors build a chronological knowledge base and define key terms, financial concepts, and processes throughout the book. They also provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of LBOs and an organized M&A sale process.

In the aftermath of the subprime mortgage crisis and ensuing credit crunch, the world of finance is returning to the fundamentals of valuation and critical due diligence. This involves the use of more realistic assumptions governing approach to risk as well as a wide range of value drivers. While valuation has always involved a great deal of “art” in addition to time-tested “science,” the artistry is perpetually evolving in accordance with market developments and conditions. In this sense, this book is particularly topical—in addition to detailing the technical fundamentals behind valuation, the authors infuse practical judgment skills and perspective to help guide the science.

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Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free (Lynn Sonberg Books)
Bill Westrom
$14.60

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Strategies and tools to live debt free

The world of borrowing and debt management has changed dramatically, leaving people confused about how best to secure their financial future. This book is the only guide with detailed advice to help you become debt free or master the debt you have, based on the latest laws and new government programs and policies implemented under the Obama administration.

Is the information and advice on debt management different than in years past? Definitely. In this savvy, engaging guide, bestselling financial expert Jordan Goodman will tell you how to

Win the mortgage game: avoid foreclosure, obtain the best refi, and modify your mortgage even if it is "under water"
Clean up your credit report and dramatically boost your credit score
Negotiate new terms and payments for burdensome medical bills, student loans, and credit cards
Protect yourself from the devastation of identity theft
Master the new credit card rules, and avoid the rate and fee traps
Learn a revolutionary strategy that will help you become mortgage free in 5 to 7 years, change the way you pay all your bills, and save hundreds of thousands of dollars

Master Your Debt recommends many pioneering strategies as it lays out an innovative plan for achieving the elusive goal of financial success. The book is filled with helpful web sites, toll free numbers, associations and government agencies, and vetted companies and services to help you implement this advice. In today's volatile economy, getting out of debt is the key to surviving and thriving, and author Jordan Goodman provides you with the strategies and tools to live debt free.

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JK Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2010: Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line (J K Lasser's New Rules for Small Business Taxes)
Barbara Weltman
$10.90

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The tax facts and strategies that every small business owner needs to know

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this reliable resource offers a complete overview of small business tax planning and provides you with the information needed to make tax-smart decisions throughout the year.

Focusing on strategies that help you use deductions and tax credits effectively, shield business income, and maximize other aspects of small business taxes, this practical guide will show you how your actions in business today can affect your bottom line from a tax perspective tomorrow.

Includes detailed coverage of the newest tax laws and IRS rules
Reveals strategies that can help you run a tax-smart business all year long
Contains comprehensive information on each deductible expense, including dollar limits and record-keeping requirements
Offers clear instructions on where to report income and claim deductions on your tax forms
Provides help with state taxes and a guide to information returns you may need to file
Other titles by Weltman: J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions & Tax Breaks 2010

Owning a small business is a big responsibility. While many small business owners seek to improve their bottom line, few realize all the ways that both current and new tax laws can help them do so. With J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2010, you'll quickly discover how.

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J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2010: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible
Barbara Weltman
$10.99

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A straightforward guide to taking tax breaks and deductions

Completely revised to reflect important changes in this year's tax laws, J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions & Tax Breaks 2010 will help you take advantage of every tax break and deduction you may be entitled to.

This comprehensive guide is clearly organized by subject matter so you can easily find situations that may apply to you. Each tax benefit is also clearly explained-along with the eligibility requirements for claiming the benefit-while planning tips and common pitfalls associated with the benefit in question are discussed in detail. New tax law alerts are also included throughout the book, so you can make the most informed decisions possible.

Discusses deductions and tax breaks with regard to your family, home, car, job, investments, charitable giving, health coverage, and much more
Packed with hundreds of updated examples, practical advice, and real-world examples
Other titles by Weltman: J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2010

J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions & Tax Breaks 2010 is a book every taxpayer should own.

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Fundamental Analysis For Dummies
Matt Krantz
$14.06

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How to determine the true strength and stability of any business

What's the key to multibillionaire Warren Buffett's five-decade run as the most successful investor in history? Fundamental analysis. Now, Fundamental Analysis For Dummies puts this tried and true method for gauging any company's true underlying value into sensible and handy step-by-step instructions..

In this easy-to-understand, practical, and savvy guide you'll discover why this powerful tool is particularly important to investors in times of economic downturn and how it helps you assess a business's overall financial performance by using historical and present data to forecast its future monetary value. You'll also learn how to use fundamental analysis to spot bargains in the market, minimize your risk, and improve your overall investment skills.

Shows how to predict the future value of a business based on its current and historical financial data
Helps you guage a company's performance against its competitors
Covers evaluation of internal management
Reveals how to determine if in a company's credit standing is any jeopardy
Applies fundamental analysis to other investment vehicles, including currency, bonds, and commodities
Matt Krantz is a writer and reporter for USA TODAY and USATODAY.COM where he covers investments and financial markets

Read Fundamental Analysis For Dummies and find the bargains that could make you the next Warren Buffett!

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It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
Nomi Prins
$14.93

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A former Wall Street manager turned muckraking journalist gets inside how the banks looted the Treasury, stole the bailout, and continued with business as usual

We've all watched as packs of former Big Finance leaders commandeer posts in Washington and lavish trillions in bailouts to "save" big Wall Street firms that will use that money for anything and everything except to fill in Main Street's potholes.

Former Wall Streeter Nomi Prins has been watching, too, and she isn't going to let them get away with it. She knows all about Big Finance and big money and moving numbers - and in this book she exposes the fundamental follies of our economic system and the schemes of the bigwigs who have no intention of letting it change. Prins:

Explains that the current crisis did not happen because ordinary citizens were able to borrow a little more than they could afford, but because Wall Street converted loans into assets that allowed it to borrow much, much more than it could afford.
Reveals all the ways corporations inhaling bailout money have gamed the system to get the most money with the least oversight.
Exposes the power-bankers that bagged more than $5 billion in compensation before and after their companies siphoned off more than a trillion dollars in federal bailout subsidies.
Shows how the most egregious pillagers work at the Fed and Treasury department, detailing how Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Tim Geithner siphoned off $10.7 trillion from the public’s future for Big Finance’s present.
Slams a financial system that will not change, if our government doesn't force it to change, no matter what happens in the so-called free market.
Is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, now a senior fellow at Demos, who writes regularly on corruption in Washington and Wall Street for news outlets ranging from Fortune to Mother Jones. It Takes a Pillage is her third non-fiction book.

If you've found yourself enraged and frustrated with how the bank bailout went bust for the American people, or how Wall Street continues to operate as if the rest of the world doesn’t matter, It Takes a Pillage gives voice to your outrage, and provides a deeper understanding of what we really have to be angry about and how we can fight for some real change.

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The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
Dave Ramsey
$11.50

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Respected financial expert Dave Ramsey offers a comprehensive plan for getting out of debt and achieving financial health. Against a playful backdrop of fitness terminology, Dave gives solid, hard-hitting advice needed to make your goals a reality. Filled with both the hope and the how-to, The Total Money Makeover includes:

Useful worksheets and forms
Readable and informative charts and graphs
The four factors that keep people from getting in shape financially
Photos and amazing stories from people who have succeeded following The Total Money Makeover plan

The Total Money Makeover is a necessity for everyone in need of a financial makeover. Readers will learn to live by the The Total Money Makeover motto: If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

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The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
George Soros
$0.01

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In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the crisis in the context of his decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.