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Article: A money management reference book.(Books)(The Guru Guide to Money Management)(Book Review)
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- Strategic Finance
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Institute of Management Accountants. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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* IN THE GURU GUIDE TO MONEY MANAGEMENT, authors Joseph H. Boyett and Jimmie T. Boyett state that there are more than 8,000 personal finance and investment books in print, with over 300 published in 2002 alone. What exactly is the advice that all of these "experts" are trying to disseminate? Is there a common theme? Is the advice redundant, or does each author provide unique, and possibly conflicting, advice? Is the counsel practical or too complex for an ordinary person to follow? Are the ideas sophisticated and insightful or simply common sense? In their book, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Joseph and Jimmie Boyett try to address such questions.
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