A few months back, I carried out a survey on personal finances. The goal was to study the impact of the pandemic on personal finances and delve a little deeper into the behavioural aspects of personal financial management. One of the areas studied was budgeting; the systematic approach of planning (and predicting) one's cash flows … Continue reading #08 Budgeting – An Illustration
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#06 Budgeting
My apologies for missing out on last week's post. The article was actually 95% done but I still wanted to sit with each of the respondents (in my head) and listen to them once more. And my conclusion is this, that there are several ways to skin a cat. Today's article introduces BUDGETING; the second … Continue reading #06 Budgeting
#04 Accounting – part two
There has been a longstanding misconception about accountants. That we are boring [not interesting or exciting], we are bland [without anything attractive], we are blue [sad, melancholic, depressed]. I see many of my counterparts beginning to line up here to cast doubt on these aspersions. What we are is bright, beautiful [or handsome if you … Continue reading #04 Accounting – part two
#01 Foreign Ground
Personal Finance & The Pandemic: Preamble At the onset of the pandemic, I listened to an executive from the Institute of Economic Affairs - Kenya share his insights on the possible impact of the novel coronavirus. "People will begin to move upcountry..." he sort of promised. Upcountry? I went numb. What if I got laid … Continue reading #01 Foreign Ground