Home Finances for Couples. Resolve Money Problems in Marriage and Learn Easy Steps to Manage Your Family Budget
By Leo Ostapiv
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About this ebook
Award-Winning Finalist in the "Business: Personal Finance/Investing" category of the 2014 International Book Awards.
ReadersFavorite review: "Ostapiv’s book should be in every family’s library to consult every time one needs to."
Wouldn’t it be great if money is the one thing you never argue about?
Home Finances for Couples is a great help for a partner in a relationship, who wants to manage the family finances efficiently, move toward meeting the shared financial goals and live in financial peace with no money issues. Ideally, both partners should read it together, but even one is enough to make a difference.
Home Finances for Couples contains 10 main chapters along with interviews, practical exercises, links to the best American and Canadian personal finance bloggers, visual illustrations and graphs. It was inspired by Dave Ramsey’s book “Total Money Makeover”, but it also adds the valuable relationship advice, particularly for young couples, engaged and newlyweds.
It might be a truly intelligent engagement or wedding gift for the relationship ;)
After reading Home Finances for Couples. Resolve Money Problems in Marriage and Learn Easy Steps to Manage your Family Budget, you will accomplish at least 80% of the following:
- Give the financial health of your relationship a checkup
- Understand the fundamental values of marriage finances
- Learn how to discuss money problems with your spouse (or partner in relationship)
- Learn family budgeting and create (or improve) household budget
- Choose and apply one of the three major techniques for managing a monthly budget
- Save money by cutting unnecessary expenses
- Make the management of your family’s money time efficient
- Set (or update) shared financial goals
- Learn budgeting tips and saving from real couples who are managing their money well
- Get inspired to achieve financial success for your family (that’s the hardest one to promise)!
Readers need to know what will not be in this book:
- A philosophy of money and love
- How to earn a lot of money and become rich
- How to prepare for your retirement
- How to repair your broken marriage or relationship
Check the sample to find out more!
from the Author:
“A fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
Given my 10 years of experience in corporate finance, five years in personal finance and an MBA, you would expect my wife and me to have a perfect money management system. However, during two years of marriage, there was a lot of miscommunication in discussing our money issues. For me, Home Finances for Couples offers a hope that, although we made some mistakes, it’s not too late in our relationship.
I’ve been reading around 50 American and Canadian personal finance blogs over several months to extend my knowledge and understand the money issues arising in modern type of long-term relationships. Bloggers advise on personal wealth management, smart financial decisions, money and relationships, family budget, student loans, spending habits, savings, being frugal, investing, paying debt off, family values, financial freedom and sustainable life. Along with own knowledge and advice, I provided links to top articles from those blogs.
It’s my hope that you, too, can resolve any money problems—step by step—in your long-term relationship with the help of Home Finances for Couples.
Moreover, I will show you how other couples successfully manage their family budget and deal with money issues in their marriage.
My greatest achievement will be the moment when you say to yourself, “Home Finances helped us to...”
Leo Ostapiv
Leo Ostapiv, CFO/Partner in the mobile development company Stanfy, Home Finances and Mobile apps expert, the Author of the book “Home Finances for Couples” and the blog www.homefinances.infoLeo started my financial career as an auditor in Deloitte & Touche in 2005. Since then, he has worked in different positions related to corporate financial management. Currently, he is CFO of the mobile software company “Stanfy” in Kyiv, Ukraine, and an independent consultant on managerial finance for small businesses.Leo got the bachelor’s degree in Economics from Kyiv-Mohyla University (Ukraine) in 2003, and finished his self-financed MBA in 2011. Also, he passed all exams given by the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA), a global body for professional accountants, and qualified for their membership in 2009.Leo’s home finances journey began by recording all his expenses in Microsoft Excel in 2008. The underlying reason was to discover why he had a decent salary, modest lifestyle and yet neither assets nor savings. Over the years, Leo developed an advanced system with the usage of online financial software and regular financial health checks. He invented tricks and techniques to make managing personal money as easy as possible.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a fantastic book on managing your finances as a couple, truly needed!