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Business and Personal Finance February 2017
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How to write a business plan
by Mike P McKeever
Explains how to create the loan package necessary to finance a business and make it work, including how to assess the potential of a business idea, estimate operating expenses, find sources of financing, present the plan to lenders and investors and more, in a book that includes access to downloadable forms. Original. Charts. Tables. Graphs. Forms.
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Lucifer's Banker : The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Banking Secrecy
by Bradley C. Birkenfeld
As a private banker working for the largest bank in the world, UBS, Bradley Birkenfeld was an expert in Switzerland's shell-game of offshore companies and secret numbered accounts. He wined and dined ultra wealthy clients whose millions of dollars were hidden away from business partners, spouses, and tax authorities. As his client list grew, Birkenfeld lived a life of money, fast cars, and beautiful women, but when he discovered that UBS was planning to betray him, he blew the whistle to the US Government. The Department of Justice scorned Birkenfeld's unprecedented whistle-blowing and attempted to silence him with a conspiracy charge. Yet Birkenfeld would not be intimidated. He took his secrets to the US Senate, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service, where he prevailed. His bombshell revelations helped the US Treasury recover over $15 billion (and counting) in back taxes, fines, and penalties from American tax cheats. But Birkenfeld was shocked to discover that at the same time he was cooperating with the US Government, the Department of Justice was still doggedly pursuing him. He was arrested and served thirty months in federal prison. When he emerged, the Internal Revenue Service gave him a whistle-blower award for $104 million, the largest such reward in history. A page-turning real-life thriller, Lucifer's Banker is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the secret Swiss high-net worth banking industry and a harrowing account of our government's justice system. Readers will follow Birkenfeld and share his outrage with the incompetence and possible corruption at the Department of Justice, and they will cheer him on as he "hammers" one of the most well-known and powerful banks in the world.
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The world according to Star Wars
by Cass R Sunstein
A celebration of George Lucas' iconic series as it relates to history, politics, law, economics, parenthood and culture, written by a Harvard legal scholar and former White House advisor, explores the films' wildly unanticipated success and the universal lessons they impart about freedom of choice. 100,000 first printing.
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud
by Elizabeth Greenwood
Explores whether it is still possible to fake your own death in the 21st century and describes the author's probe of the world of death fraud, visiting message boards for people plotting pseudocide and buying her own death certificate in the Philippines.
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Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money
by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze
As his fans know, Dave Ramsey went bankrupt in his 20s and raised his children to avoid the mistakes he made. Here, he teams up with his daughter Rachel to help other families raise financially savvy kids, including through creating an emergency fund, paying cash for big-ticket items like cars (or college), and using the envelope system he supports for spending, saving, and giving. Much of the text is written by Rachel, who explains exactly how she absorbed his lessons. Like Ramsey's other books, this one contains Biblical references; this shouldn't prevent parents of all faiths (or none) from benefiting from their advice.
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Smart mom, rich mom : how to build wealth while raising a family
by Kimberly Palmer
Of all life's financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise. How will you pay for it? Written by a national money columnist and mother of two, Smart Mom, Rich Mom explores how women today are navigating the financially challenging career/parenting years and emerging more prosperous and empowered. The book mines their experiences to uncover career advice and spending and savings strategies that everyone can use.
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Social network-powered investing & saving opportunities
by Don Rauf
Young Adult. Describes how to leverage the power of social networking to increase investing and saving opportunities, including searching for scholarships, using budgeting software, and trading stocks online.
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Making Money Grow
by Kathleen E. Bradley
Making money takes hard work and determination. This informative nonfiction book encourages readers learn some of the basic skills for earning and saving money through moneymaking projects, entrepreneurship, patents on their own creative ideas, and fund-raising. With an emphasis on mathematic concepts such as interest and percentage, readers will have the tools they need to kickstart responsible personal finances. Through bright images, informational text, accommodating charts and diagrams, readers will be inspired to earn and save money in ways they find fun and exciting!
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A kid's guide to stock market investing
by Tamra Orr
Follow Sasha and Tim and the rest of their class as they find out how the world's stock markets work, how they got started, and how everyday people can invest.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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