Category: Basics

Do the math

A♥ — Do The Math

Do The Math – the 1st thing that you need to do is work out how much money you will need in the future. Then you can put together a plan to get there.

Tax Avoidance

Tax Avoidance

Today’s post is about Tax avoidance. In the news Tax avoidance scandals have been in the news a lot recently, but that isn’t why I decided to write about the…

The Banker and the Fisherman

The Banker and the Fisherman

Today’s post is about the parable of the banker and the fisherman. The banker and the fisherman I’m sure many of you will have come across this story before. This is…

Income and taxes

Income and taxes

This is the third post in our series on basic personal finances, and looks and income and taxes. So far we’ve talked about life stages, and how to plan for the…

Disclosure of investment fund costs

Disclosure of investment fund costs

Today we are going to take a look at a position paper issued by the Investment Association this week on the disclosure of investment fund costs. Costs are crucial in…

Ratios

Ratios and your finances

This week we will be using Ratios to look at the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet that we created last time, to see what they tell us about the…