A 12-hour program offering the best financial planning techniques. Quinn covers borrowing, saving, investing, buying a home, finding insurance, planning retirement, and more.

Includes index.

STEP 1. Building Your Base. 1. What Archimedes Would Have Done: Where You Stand on the Money Cycle. 2. The Ultimate Wish List: What You've Got and Where You're Going. 3. I Have It Right Here Somewhere: The Right Way to Keep Records. 4. Your Basic Banking: Finding a Bank That Even Your Mother Would Love. 5. Poolers, Splitters, and Keepers: Who Should Own the Property--Me? You? Us? Them? 6. Willing Makes It So: Wills and Trusts--For Everything You Can't Take with You. 7. All in the Family: Seven Checklists for Life's Milestones -- STEP 2. Finding the Money. 8. A Spending Plan That Works: How to Take Charge of Your Money--At Last. 9. Saving More Money: Patented, Painless Ways to Save, and Where to Save It. 10. Kicking the Credit Card Habit: Learning to Live Without Consumer Debt. 11. When to Hock the Farm: All the Best Ways to Borrow Money to Invest -- STEP 3. Your Safety Net. 12. The Money on Your Life: What Kind of Life Insurance? How Much Is Enough? 13. To Your Good Health: Avoiding a Heart Attack over Medical Bills. 14. Disability--The Big Black Hole: The Risk That Everyone Forgets. 15. The Driving Dream: The Search for the Cheapest Auto Insurance. 16. Fire! Theft! Wind! Flood! Protecting Your Home and Everything in It -- STEP 4. Your Own Home. 17. A House Is a Security Blanket: Yes, Doubters, It Still Pays to Own. 18. A Second Home for Fun and Profit: The House That Doesn't Cost You Anything (Much) -- STEP 5. Paying for College. 19. Tuition, Room, and Board: The Matterhorn of Personal Finance. 20. The Best College Investment Plans: How to Beat the College Inflation Rate -- STEP 6. Understanding Investing. 21. Drawing Up Your Battle Plan: Which Kinds of Investments Serve You Best? 22. How to Pick a Mutual Fund: Every Investor's Bedrock Buy. 23. Working with a Stockbroker: Where It Helps and Where It Hurts. 24. Your Ticket to the Future: Stocks--The Growth Investment. 25. How to Use Bonds: Income Investing--The Right Way and the Wrong Way. 26. The Call of the Wild: Some Awful Investments, Plus a Word About Gold. 27. Aimez-Vous Growth? The Case for Putting Some Money Abroad. 28. Real Estate--The New Winning Systems: Finding the Properties That Pay -- STEP 7. Retirement Planning. 29. How to Retire in Style: The Tax-Deferred Route to Easy Street. 30. Making It Last: Still Living Rich, at 99. 31. Retiring on the House: How to Tap the Equity You've Built -- STEP 8. Making It Work. 32. Be Your Own Planner: The Secret, Revealed -- Appendixes. 1. The Best Insurance Planner You Will Ever Find. 2. The Accumulated Capital and Discount Tables. 3. Should You Buy or Rent? 4. The Best-Guess College Planner (Long Form). 5. Your Personal Performance Index. 6. Taxable Versus Tax-Free Bonds. 7. How Much Should You Save for Retirement? (Long Form). 8. How Long Will Your Capital Last? 9. Pension Maximization: Will It Work for You? 10. Life Expectancy (Expected Return Multiple).