Personal Money Management

Managing money is one of the toughest tasks of home management. Personal money management involves budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, debt management, income and expense tracking, loan analysis, and more.

I know! It sounds like something you might hear in a business meeting or accounting department, but these things are just as important to the smooth functioning of your household as they are to any business.

Most households don’t have the resources that businesses do, so you have to learn how to handle all these issues on your own. No one teaches you accounting principles or finance and economics ideas just to run your household.

You need to be proactive and learn about these on your own unless you were lucky enough to come from a family that already did a really good job of teaching you the finer points of personal money management.

That’s why I’ve added this section to Home Management Tips. I have years of experience with my own personal money management issues and I actually practice bookkeeping and accounting in my day job. I can help you learn about personal money management for your household and that’s what I’m going to do. New articles will be added to this section regularly.

Don’t Forget to Manage Your Household Finances!

Quicken Deluxe 2012 is an easy to use, reliable software solution for managing your household finances. If you're ready to save time and money by taking better care of your home finance issues, you might want to try Quicken.

Quicken is from Intuit, the company behind Mint.com. If you prefer an online only solution to managing money and don't need the detail that desktop money management software can give you, you should try Mint. I recently revisited Mint because of the useful Mint Android app. It's the easy way to keep up with your account balances on the go. I do still use the discontinued Microsoft Money but am in the process of switching to YNAB (for budgeting), which I'll write about soon.

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