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Perseus Books,U.S. Number of pages: 356 Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Published)

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In What's Your Net Worth?, Jennifer Openshaw, founder of Women's Financial Network and a frequent financial commentator on US TV, describes a complete 12-step "wealth-building" programme that combines sound advice with Web-site recommendations. Online investing may get the lion's share of attention, but Openshaw says the Net really is the perfect vehicle for managing all personal finance information--especially for women, whose unique fiscal requirements often are ignored by traditional guides to money management. It boils down to mixing time-honoured (albeit gender-specific) techniques with today's technology to develop a three-part game plan Openshaw calls "Earn it, Save it, and Grow it!" Towards the second goal, for example, she describes various ways that expenses might be trimmed to increase savings "not only by using online budgeting tools to get a handle on your spending but also by devising an online strategy to spend less on the things you still need to buy." Other individual actions, all based on a variety of suggestions building toward the overall goal of financial stability and geared specifically toward women, focus on eliminating debt and building credit, protecting assets, minimising taxes, increasing earnings, and giving back through charitable contributions. --Howard Rothman