Women’s Financial Advantage
Womens Financial Advantage
My 30+ years’ experience has helped people to organize their finances. Specializing in small business bookkeeping services & daily money management services to individuals, elderly & busy professionals I have found some business owners or the divorced or widowed feeling overwhelmed trying to understand finances or gain control over their personal accounting. The Women’s Financial Advantage forum allows them to learn about budgeting, debt, retirement & day-to-day money management.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
April Fools - where’s the money ?
Well here it is, already the first of April, 2009. Our economy is still going downhill, but we need to just hold on until it gets better. I know it will, it’s just going to take some time. Listening to Suze Orman this morning sure got me to think more about my own financial struggles. She said it will probably not be until 2015 before we see definite signs of relief and start to feel comfortable again.
I used to think it was just me and my household that were in dire straights, but as I continue to hear from friends and business associates, we are all being bombarded with the same issues.
Unemployment is the highest that it’s been in 25 years. Foreclosures and short sales are continuing at an unprecidented rate. Major companies that we thought could never go down are filing for bankruptcy protection. It’s getting ridiculous!
But there are avenues we can take to start to work it out; budgets, simplifying, cutting back on unneccesary frills. We know the drill, we just have to start taking one step forward to try to make it happen.
For those of you who are single, divorced, widowed you may have not had the previous “pleasure” of handling all the ins and outs of your personal finances. If you are one of “these” people there is help. Many websites exist to help us learn more.
http://www.wife.org/
http://www.wiserwomen.org/
http://www.aarp.org/
Take a look at these sites and they will help you get started.
Natalie
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Scattered Finances?
Do you feel overwhelmed?
Are your finances out of control?
I know how it can be - if you have not been the one to handle your household and business finances and now due to death or divorce you are facing what seems to be an insurmountable mountain of paperwork, Ahlstrom Advantage can help.
http://www.ahlstromadvantage.com/
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Making 2009 Different
How many times have you read that it’s crazy to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Maybe it’s time to really start to think “outside the box.” As I sit here typing, I can’t help but to believe that if we “don’t sweat the small stuff,” we can create a new and better world for ourselves. We can make a difference in our lives. We can do what we love and the money will follow.
Don’t ask me why or how, but I continue to have this feeling that it really can be a better 2009. Our economy and our financial structure will get better. I have two kids, 23 year old twins, a boy and a girl. I have always hoped that I had taught them how to handle their money properly. And the funny thing is (and maybe this is just the twin thing or being boy/girl), they both react differently to how they take care of their financial situations. My daughter, after her teen-age rebellion (lol) took after me and has really tried to stay focused on her money. She budgets to the penny! And then my son goes through life “having fun.” Thank goodness he survived a tour to Iraq in the Marines, on a tank! But now that he’s home he’s continuing to learn by living. If he spends his money, he spends his money. I wonder why they are so different. Is it because one’s a girl and one’s a boy? Or is it because our society has instilled in them a different type of philosophy about how they deal with things, money included? I’m not sure, but I’m enjoying the journey to try and figure it out.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Are you worried about your financial future?
Are you worried? I know I am. Even though I’ve been involved in the financial and accounting fields for over 30 years I still wonder - are we going to be able to retire, will we have enough, can we travel? Who knows…..with the recent economical situation “times are a changin.”
Both of my parents were children of the great depression and they were always saving, only spent what they could afford, never used credit and were never in DEBT.
Why don’t we live like that now?
I find that when I talk to various women or elderly people they are just as concerned about their finances as I am. Especially some women who are recently divorced or widowed, their spouses use to handle all the money and now they don’t have a clue or don’t know where to start.
I want to help. As I continue forward in my own relm of discovery, I want to pass on what I learn to you. I’m thinking that as I find information, I will post the links here as long as I give the appropriate credit for the article’s author.