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Joan Baker's "Improve Your F.Q.: The Business Numbers You Need to Succeed"

According to business consultant Joan Baker, just like your I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient), your F.Q. (Financial Quotient) is critical to your success. More importantly, for those who tend to be 'number phobic', your F.Q. is easily improved. Business numbers need no longer be confronting!

Readers are encouraged to take the F.Q. test laid out in the early part of the book and work their way through the chapters. There is also a glossary with clear explanations of the jargon, acronyms and abbreviations associated with business maths.

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John R. Burley's "Australia's Money Secrets of the Rich"

Learn the 7 steps to Financial Freedom with the Money Secrets of the Rich. John’s straightforward information provides step-by-step processes that make it fun and easy to learn how to become rich and stay that way. This book will teach you the truth about money:

• Why you don’t need money to start investing

• Become debt free in 3-7 years including your house and cars

• How to reduce your expenses 20-50% without affecting your standard of living

• Set up an automatic investment plan that makes you rich

John Burley has achieved what most people would consider impossible. Starting out with little money, a workable plan of action, and a lot of desire, John was in a position to retire by the age of 32. John has completed over 800 real estate transactions.

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Peter Spann's "The Little Pot of Gold"

 
Based on the 'life lessons' described in Peter Spann's previous book Wealth Magic, The Little Pot of Gold is a source of inspiration for anyone who wants to find and live their dream.

This little book focuses on the true purpose of wealth and looks at the difference between wealth and success: ‘Rich’ is just when you have a lot of money. ‘Successful’ is when you are doing what you love and love what you do.

Other insights include:
*Money itself is unimportant. What’s important is what you are going to do with it.
*Income only equals lifestyle – assets equal wealth.

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Ed Murphy's "Money Sense – A Young Person's Guide to Financial Freedom"

Ed Murphy's Money Sense – A Young Person's Guide to Financial Freedom, sets out to de-mystify the process of managing your money.

Aimed at young people, but also appropriate for anybody just starting to consider their financial future, this book takes a 'big picture' look at wealth.

It contains information on saving, investing, bank accounts, shares, property, managing your finances, tax, superannuation, debt and monitoring your spending.

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Charles Beelaerts' "Understanding Investments - An Australian investor's guide to the stockmarket, property and cash-based investments"

The majority of Australians are convinced that they have to play a greater role in securing their financial futures.

But with the competition for their investment dollar increasing they are often confused by the investment products available and baffled by the jargon the industry uses.

Co-authored with Kevin Forde, Beelaerts' Understanding Investments addresses this problem in the fully revised and updated fourth edition of this Australian investor's guide to the stockmarket, property and cash-based investments. The authors start with the basics, doing a budget, learning the language and looking at each asset class objectively.

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Trevor Sykes' "The Numbers Game"

For 30 years, Trevor Sykes has been making sense of the numbers in annual reports, mining statements and investment prospectuses. Our money is at some degree of risk whatever we do with it, and the world of finance and investment can be erratic, complex and confusing.

Starting with the annual report and the balance sheet, Sykes works through assets and liabilities, the profit and loss account, tax and cash flow, looking at case studies of individual companies and how they are valued by the stock markets versus their "true" value.

Light on accountancy theory and heavy on practical experience, Sykes shows both the new and the experienced investor how to read the sign-posts, identify the danger signs and avoid the pitfalls. If this book helps you to avoid even one financial mistake it will have paid for itself! Trevor Sykes' Pierpoint column and his other pieces in the Financial Review are perhaps the most read financial columns in Australia. 

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Margaret Lomas' "How to Make Your Money Last as Long as You Do"

How To Make Your Money Last As Long As You Do debunks the myth of negative gearing and replaces it with a fresh, new approach to investing which carries with it the security of property, without the traditional losses experienced by so many property investors. It's about positive cash flow property and learning how to seek out properties which generate an income from day one.

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Margaret Lomas' "How to Create an Income for Life"

Margaret Lomas’ third book is the sequel to the hugely successful How to Make Your Money Last as Long as You Do and provides detailed and specific strategies to analyse, identify, purchase and finance positive cash flow property.

How to Create an Income for Life looks specifically at how to identify and structure positive cash flow property investments which will create an income for life.

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William J. O'Neil's "The Successful Investor"

In The Successful Investor, William O'Neil provides simple to follow strategies for making - and keeping - profits in today's perilous stock market. O'Neil is the author of the "BusinessWeek", "USA Today", and "Wall Street Journal" business bestseller How to Make Money in Stocks.

More than 80 million investors lost 50 to 80 percent of their savings in the recent stock market crash. Investor's Business Daily publisher William J. O'Neil, however, was one of the first to see - and warn investors about - the dangers inherent in what had been, up to that point, a historic bull market run. Those who followed his counsel were able to sidestep devastating losses and emerge with their sizable bull market profits largely intact.

In The Successful Investor, O'Neil steps up to tell all investors how they can make money and, more important, avoid losses in up markets, down markets, and everything in between. Showing how mistakes made in the recent market collapse were amazingly similar to those made in previous down cycles, O'Neil reveals simple steps investors can follow to avoid costly mistakes and:

• Buy only the best stocks at only the best times

• Follow a market-tested 3-to-1 Profit-and-Loss Percentage Plan

• Know when to sell for the biggest possible profit

• Recognise chart patterns that presage enormous market moves

• Manage a portfolio over time to maximise its returns

William O'Neil has succeeded in virtually every market environment by following a stable, non-emotional investment plan. In his latest book, O'Neil explains how anyone can follow that plan to become a profitable long-term investor, regardless of market tides or turns.

The Successful Investor will bring reason and welcome relief to all investors buffeted and bewildered by the perils and uncertainty of today's stock market.

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G. Victor Hallman's "Personal Financial Planning"

With more than 135,000 copies sold, Personal Financial Planning has become one of today's top answer books for people who want to know what to do with their money, and why.

This guide to personal finance planning discusses an array of financial products available to the individual investor, as well as insurance options, tax, retirement and estate planning. It is mainly concerned with accumulation and protection of capital by investment and planning.