Growing your bottom line tool kit

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Financial Literacy - Growing your bottom line

TOOLS AND RESOURCES

Use these plentiful resources to maximize your savings and investment potential.

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Growing your bottom line

Self-help tools, tips and more

Growing your bottom line requires a balanced strategy of saving, investing and budgeting. These resources can help you better manage your money and make it work for you.

Calculators

Work sheets

Audio/video

Basics

More reading

Glossary

Calculators and decision tools
•	Savings goal calculator
•	Savings withdrawal calculator
•	Lunch savings calculator
•	Emergency savings calculator
•	Don't delay your savings!
•	Home budget calculator
•	Net worth calculator


•	What is your tax bracket?
•	1040 tax calculator
•	Net-to-gross paycheck calculator?
•	The true cost of paying the minimum
•	Payroll deductions calculator
•	Manage your investment goals
•	CD laddering

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Work sheets
•	Assessing goals and spending needs
•	Daily expense tracker
•	10 reasons to budget
•	Spending plan work sheet


•	Discover your goals
•	Track your capital gains and losses
•	Tax preparation checklist

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Audio
•	Retiring in a bad economy: Plan ahead
•	Ways to downsize during retirement
•	Financial and healthcare planning
•	7 steps to financial abundance
•	15 money moves for tough times
•	Get rich, or lose money quick?

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Video
•	Invest or pay down your mortgage?
•	401(k) strategy for best returns
•	Setting a price to sell your home
•	Price cuts for home improvement
•	Cut cooling costs with an energy audit
•	Buy a home on a foreclosure tour
•	Roth 401(k) or regular 401(k)?
•	Finding money to save
•	Learn to be rich and stay rich
•	Save money: give up your land line

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Basics
•	Investing Basics
•	Savings Basics
•	Savings with tax breaks
•	Tax Basics
•	College Financing Basics
•	Retirement Basics
•	More Basics

Bankrate resources

Archives
•	Overview archive
•	Take action archive
•	Spotlight archive
•	Poll archive
•	Money makeover archive
•	Calculator archive
•	Glossary archive
•	Work sheet archive
•	Audio archive
•	Video archive

Free newsletters
•	Frugal News (sample)
•	Weekly Roundup (sample)
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Outside resources

Federal government resources
•	IRS: Comparing education credits
•	IRS: Health savings accounts
•	IRS: Mortgage interest deduction
•	FDIC insurance coverage to $250,000
•	Savings protected by FDIC insurance
•	Building wealth

Educational resources
•	State deductions for 529 contributions
•	Budgeting your resources
•	Educational savings and financial aid
•	NEFE: Saving
•	NEFE: Investing
•	America Saves: Saver resources
•	Choose to save: Savings tips