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Introducing: Family Budget Spreadsheets

Family Balance Sheet

This package of 9 Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is designed to help you organize your finances, plan for major purchases, create a budget, understand your cash flow, and track your net worth. I created it as a way to communicate our finances to my husband. One January, we received a very large credit card bill in the mail.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

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I am a big believer in communicating. Glen from Credit Card Smarts shares how to Use a Credit Card to Build Your Credit History Fast. Pierre from Intelligent Speculator asks If You Had To Buy Google ($GOOG) Or Microsoft ($MSFT), Which Would It Be? We should take a moment to refresh our perspective.

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Stay Organized To Keep Your Information Secure

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It is wise to buy and install software that can track inbound and outbound communications to make sure that information comes from trustworthy sources or leaves to intended recipients. Encrypt sensitive and private data such as client’s credit card details. To start with, encrypt the hard drives in your computers.

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