Finance and Credit Professional

Modern lenders are experts at bombarding us with commercials on TV, in newspapers and in the post, offering us all kinds of opportunities to borrow money. Most of the time we totally ignore this advertising and junk mail.However, for many people, at some point in their lives they need a little help with their finances. [...]

Balancing your checking account against statements from your financial institution is a monthly task that I highly recommend. Not only can you make mistakes, but the people who process your checking account transactions are subject to human error as well.Mistakes in your checking account and/or checkbook register can be small or large, and in your [...]

My Dad and father-in-law were at both ends of the spectrum when it came to managing their checking accounts. Dad would spend hours, sometimes days, tracking down a two cent error in his checkbook register. It drove him bonkers when his checkbook didn't balance to the penny with the account statement.My father-in-law, on the other [...]