Don’t go shopping without a need for it: Saving Sundays

Just ask a question to yourself before you go for shopping of something - Do you really need it? ; If Yes, then look for the sale & go for shopping. Otherwise don’t waste money by going for window / impulse shopping.

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Dine Out for Special Occasions Only: Saving Sundays

Make sure you dine out only for special occasions. This is to be implemented and followed immediately because you could get a week’s worth of groceries to cook at home for the same amount that you pay for a single dinner at a restaurant per person.

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How To Make Financial Planning Work For You?

All of us are conscious of the phrase ‘Financial Planning’ but few know how to make effective personal financial planning.

If you want to focus on your financial planning process and to know why is it important for proper financial planning to achieve your personal aim efficiently, you are in the right place at the right time. As your involvement in the process is

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Don’t plan vacation during peak tourist season : Saving Sundays

This will always be more expensive. Instead, “Travel off-season”. So you can still enjoy the weather along with better rates to slash away your cost to reduce your budget.

Don’t ever plan to have your vacations during peak travel times, like New Year, Thanksgiving, Christmas or Independence Day, where you will pay significantly more for

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Benefits of Financial Planning

After knowing what is Financial Planning and its scope, you would be wondering what would be the advantages over your financial planning. Below are some of the benefits you might receive when you invest the time, energy and money to develop your own personal financial plan.

1. Assessing Financial Picture 

Financial Planning helps you to assess your current, complete financial picture (cash flow, net-worth, investments, income taxes, etc.) to determine your financial goals. Financial Planning will help in analyzing every aspect (Assets, Income, Loans, Insurance, Taxes, Business interests, Wills etc.,) of your current financial situation in light of

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Financial Planning & its scope

# Financial Planning is defined as the process whereby an individual's personal and financial goals are achieved through the development and implementation of a comprehensive financial plan.

# Financial Planning is not just about making Money. It's about buying/achieving all the goals of a person and creating opportunities to

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Pay Your Credit Cards On Time: Saving Sundays

Get Ready to Save Money! Saving Tips Every Sundays

Pay your credit card balances in full on time to maintain a good credit rating or record & avoid late fees, finance charges. It is better to use cash as much as possible, unless using plastic card will be advantageous to have a better deal (like 0 % interest on

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Investment: Types of Risk

After understanding what is risk associated with Investment in the previous post, now you can understand their types to have better idea - Systematic and Unsystematic Risk.

Systematic Risk (External Risk)

Market Risk, Interest Rate Risk and Purchasing Power Risk are grouped under systematic risk.

a) Market Risk

Sources of Risk: Market Risk is referred to as stock variability due to

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Risks associated with Investments

Risk and uncertainty are an integral part of an investment decision. Technically, 'Risk' can be defined as a situation where the possible consequences of the decision that is to be taken are known. 'Uncertainty' is generally defined to apply to situations where the probabilities cannot be estimated. However, risk and uncertainty are used interchangeably.

The main focus contributing to risk are price and interest. Risk is also

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Make Sure Your Money is Safe (DICGC Guarantee)

Guide to the Deposit Insurance System in India

Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) (a wholly owned subsidiary of RBI) guarantees Deposit Insurance Coverage up to Rs. 1,00,000 (Rupees One Hundred Thousand) for all Leading Commercial Banks.

Each depositor in a bank is insured up to a maximum of Rs. 1,00,000 for both principal and interest amount held by him/her as on the date of liquidation/cancellation of bank's licence or the

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Use Energy Saving CFL Lights:Saving Sundays

This is my first post in the Series of Saving Sunday’s .

This series is my initiative to share practical money saving tips to my friends like you.

Use Energy Saving Lights

Using energy saving lights like Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL bulbs) will consume 60% less energy than incandescent bulbs, but give the same illumination, sometimes more illumination.

Though CFL looks like costlier item than normal incandescent bulbs, Installing CFL will

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SUCCESS IN LIFE

Hello Buddies, Thank you for staying with this blog for your personal finance basic education.

Happy 2012 to you, dear reader! I hope your new year is filled with joyful learning, abundant opportunity, and pleasure in all you do.

Please receive my 2 Gifts for your successful and fruitful New Year

1) I would like to initiate the series of “Saving Sunday’s” to

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Personal Income Tax Calculation Tools for India

Though there are so many personal income tax calculation tools available in the web, I found two of the cool & useful income tax calculator in Excel which will be useful to find out a person's total income available before & after tax, savings done for tax purpose, income tax liability...

They both are taking efforts to maintain the spreadsheet for each year and it's free for all!.

These sites provide Income Tax Calculators in downloadable excel format, you can

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Shares Vs Stock

Shares

The capital of a joint stock company is usually divided into certain indivisible units of a fixed amount. These units are called Shares.

"Share" means a definite portion of the capital of a company. It includes stock also. A share is evidenced by a company under its common seal.

It specifies any shares held by a member and is

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Investment Vs Gambling

Merry Christmas to All! May this Christmas become the period of Happy Investing for you :-)

As already we came to know about Investment in the previous posts, we will discuss directly here about Gambling.

Gambling

Gambling involves taking risk without demanding compensation in the form of increased expected return. Examples of Gambling are horse riding, game of cards, lottery etc;

Characteristics of Gamblers

1. Gambler never stops while winning

2. Gambler displays

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Investment Vs Speculation

Investment can be defined as the purchase of an asset with the primary purpose of conserving or increasing wealth. The assets may include shares, debentures, land, residential houses, gold, jewellery, social security certificates, capital investment bonds, units of UTI, deposit in banks and companies, silver etc.,

Speculation can be defined as the purchase of

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Kinds of Investments

One can divide one's investments into parts. One part maybe used for speculate purchase; another could be used for conservative buying etc. This leads one to the kinds of investments that one can make.

These can be broadly classified into the following groups:

a) Very secure fixed income investments

b) Secure fixed income investments

c) Fixed income investments

d) Equity Shares

a) Very secure fixed income investments are those

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Top 10 What Not to Do with Money Part2

Here’s Balance Top 6 - 10 in continuation to Top 5 What Not to Do with Money to keep more of your Money to keep you away from making financial mistakes.…

6. Don't manage your money without a proper plan

Ensure that you have a proper financial plan to manage your money and rigidly adhere to the same. It helps you to avoid unnecessary / impulse spending and safeguard your money. Do not invest money only on the basis of what others say. You must identify your priorities and set realistic goals.

When you are new to Investment, you must start saving with smaller amounts in

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Top 10 What Not to Do with Money Part1

Want to Keep/Have More of Your Money?

Though we are eager to save money, but as you know handling money is not that easy. Here’s Top 1-5 What Not to Do with Money to keep more of your Money to keep you away from making financial mistakes.…

1. Don't stash your money in a savings bank account

Don't make the mistake of keeping all your money as idle in your bank account. Investing and doing so at a regular basis is

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Types of Investors

Try to Know What Kind of Investor Are You?

Investor is an individual who commits money to investment products in hoping to make a profit/return from it. Generally, the primary concern of an investor is to minimize risk while maximizing return.

Investors are classified as follows:

a) A Conservative Investor safeguard capital to earn an income. They will not play in the market. They will invest and retain it for some time. He is one who doesn't want to

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Why Saving Money is So Important Part2

Importance of Saving Money Part2

Save Money

In Continuation to Part1 of Why We Save Money, Though there are 'N' number of importance of Saving Money, we can see the remaining most significant reasons to save.

     



7)     For Retirement: At Present, Average Life Expectancy has increased to 64.7  (Age) in India, so it is better to start saving earlier to face your post-retirement life in an

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Investment, its characteristics & principles

Investment Basics

Generally, "An Investment is a sacrifice of current money or other resources for future benefits". Investment means use of funds fruitfully so as to get an yield.

Investment is a commitment of person’s funds to derive future income in the form of a) Interest b) Dividends c) Rent d) Premiums or e) Appreciation of the value of his principal capital

Characteristics of Investments

1) It is an asset or any instrument

2) Risk is assumed

3) Return is

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Why Saving Money is So Important Part1

Importance of Saving Money Part1

Saving Money

One of the key factors for your financial freedom is developing the habit of Saving. Saving sounds simple, but it's not always easy to do with the kind of life we are living. Unfortunately, majority of people start realizing importance of saving money when it is too late. Good Financial Planners realize every one need to save today's earnings for expenses they will have to face in the future.

Everyone might be hearing about Saving Money…. And you may

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Types of Savings

We can divide your total Savings into three parts:

1) Sacred Money - You would never want to risk this part of your savings. You may keep this at home under the mattress or invest in Bank accounts and in Government guaranteed schemes

2) Serious Money - This part of your savings you are willing to expose to a little bit of risk. You may buy debentures issued by high quality companies, or you could invest in FD's of good corporate.

3) Aggressive Money - This you may use to invest in shares or other relatively risky investments which have a potential of giving excellent returns.

Types of Savings can also be considered based on the foll. Factors: Your savings time horizon (i.e., less than a year; more than five years); and your savings need (i.e., Fun Fund, Retirement).

The amount you want to invest and the

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Types of Income

In order to understand more about Money, you must first understand the different types of Income. It’s really better to understand the below 3 basic types of income, so that you can decide better in which way you want to Make Your Money. 

1) Earned Income:

Earned income includes all the taxable income and wages that a person receives for work they have done. There are two ways to get earned income: You work for

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