According to CNN Money, your adult children may need a hand charting a financial course. So buy them time with a planner.
Read more from CNN Money.
Archive for August, 2007
Help your kids grow rich
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Three great ways to mess up your 401-k
Monday, August 27th, 2007CNN Money has an excellent article on mistakes to avoid in managing your 401(k):
In a study of 100,000 401(k) participants, the company found that 70 percent gave up returns of one to three percentage points a year after inflation because of common and entirely avoidable blunders.
The cost: potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a career.
Read more at CNN Money
Giving Back To God
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Please join us Saturday, August 25 at 1:30 p.m. to discuss “Giving Back to God.”
We will explore topics like:
- The difference between tithes and offerings
- The importance of the right attitude
- What it means to give God leftovers
We will use the following scripture as the basis for our discussion:
- John 3:16
- 2 Corinthians 8:1–2; 9:7
- Acts 20:35
- Matthew 6:20-21
- Matthew 25
- Malachi 1:6-9
Please bring your bibles and join us at Centenary!
You can purchase Taking Care of Business from our bookstore.
Lessons for the College-Bound
Monday, August 20th, 2007Ben Stein provides tips for students starting college this year to ensure that their financial future is solid:
Finance is an endlessly fascinating topic. It involves history, intuition, logic, mathematics, and hope. But for most of us, our finances come from work and not from investments.
In turn, how we do at work is vitally affected by the kind of education we get — and most especially what we get out of our education. And what we get out of our education is very largely dependent on what we put into our education.
Read more on Yahoo.
Five Steps for Ditching Credit Card Debt
Sunday, August 12th, 2007David Bach, “The Automatic Millionaire” has an excellent article on paying off credit card debt.
This article is a good companion to our study of paying off debt.
Notes from 8-11-2007
Saturday, August 11th, 2007We had a very small turnout today, so we will save these notes for our next session on 8/25/2007.
Taking Care of Business - Ch 7
Also, see this article on Giving by Lee Jenkins.
You can purchase Taking Care of Business from our bookstore.