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[P223]Personal Finance Software Budget

by Jeff Nelson, Jef

The internet can be used for a ton of different things and with new inventions popping up every day there are things that we can do online now that would never would have dreamed of doing just ten years ago. One of these things is online personal finance, the use of online personal finance has skyrocketed since it was first developed and continues to grow as the economy changes. One of the things that online personal finance is known for is helping families create and maintain healthy budgets. The reason why they are so easy to create and maintain though the internet is because the internet makes it an easy and reliable service. All you have to do is input information about yourself and let the software do the rest of the work for you. During this hard economic time, many people are dealing with the stresses of how to save money, and where they can eliminate it in order to save more. This is where this tool comes in handy.

It is very easy to set up a budget with an online personal finance program. Many of these programs track your spending through your bank account and record where you are spending your money. With this information these companies can make graphs for you showing you where and what you are spending the most money on. This is particularly helpful when you are creating a budget because you will see where most of your expenses go and are able to see the areas where you can spend less money. The second reason why this software is so helpful in creating budgets is because after analyzing where you spend your money you can actually create a budget online. This is an awesome tool because you analyze how much you spent on any particular thing such as clothing. The software allows you to choose an amount of money which you feel is an acceptable amount to spend yearly on these goods and will help you create a 12 month plan of how much money you will be able to spend on clothing. The program essentially breaks down all of your spending in every area in order to help you maintain a stricter budget.

Another way that using online personal finance software can help you maintain a budget is when you are shopping. With so many people using cell phones that have internet access today it is very easy for shoppers to log into the online financing program when they are in the store. This will give shoppers a brand new and up to date analysis about how much they should spend when they are shopping. This software will also allow you to see if you have exceeded any budgets you have set for yourself by showing you graphs of your typical spending. For example if you spend $200 more on groceries than you had planned, this software will allow you to see where you can cut back in other areas in order to stay within your overall budget.

I believe that all children should learn basic business & personal finance skills from the age of twelve to sixteen years. Why not teach children how mortgages and pensions work. Everybody needs a place to live and if they have a long life they will need to retire one day.

Schools should teach their students how to manage credit card debts. They should be taught how credit card companies make their money by charging extortionate amounts of interest far higher than a personal loan to people that pay late.

Students should learn how to negotiate and barter. After all they are going to be doing this every day for the rest of their lives. What about learning the difference between mark up and profit margin?

Learning how to handle money would be the best compulsory course at school. If you add a class like "Business & Personal Finance" and make it standard for all children then what subject would you remove or do less off?

I had a period a day of Latin. This has been pretty much useless in my life. Has anybody benefited from learning Latin? I read about the Greek gods, translated old books and I have to admit that after doing it for over 4 years, I only remember a handful of phrases now.

How many of you remember sweating over stuff like Algebra and Trigonometry? Has this been useful to you in life? Surely this does not need to be taught in such detail to every child & only needs to be taught to budding scientists and mathematicians?

I had art classes. Where they really necessary? I was also taught how to knit and dance? What was the point of that? What about religious education? Shouldn't this type of stuff be taught in Sunday school? Should this subject really be taught in school at all?

I am not advocating that we remove these subjects completely. As you can see it would be really easy to teach slightly less of some other subjects to make space for one period a day of Business & Personal Finance for all older children.

Would this benefit the UK economy? I am sure it would. Imagine students leaving school having basic understanding of fixed and variable interest rate mortgages. They would have learnt how to manage their bank account and check their bank statements. Wouldn't it be great if they knew how to calculate gross / nett profit margins and compare one investment with another?

Many people will make the argument that this information should be taught by parents and not by school teachers. The problem is that many parents themselves do not understand basic concepts of personal finance! Some view their own personal finances as a private matter that should not even be discussed in front of the children.

What subjects do you think they should teach more of and which subjects should they teach less of to make room?

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