On My Own Two Feet - a modern girl’s guide to personal finance by Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar
Though you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, I admit that I bought this book based on the title. Isn’t that a goal for a lot of young women coming out of college - [...]

The Motley Fool (www.fool.com) is a great website about personal finance. Its mission is to “to educate, amuse, and enrich.”
The site offers information about investing, saving, taxes, and much more. Reading the articles always makes me smile. For example, the section on taxes is called “Death & Taxes,” a reference to Ben Franklin’s quote
Our new [...]

Essentials of Accounting
by Robert N. Anthony and Leslie K. Breitner
If you ever wanted to learn about accounting (or, more likely, need to because of a job), this book is a great place to start.
As studies show, the best way to learn is by interacting with new material. Most accounting books encourage passive reading, so to [...]

Grindhopping: Building a Rewarding Career Without Paying Your Dues by Laura Vanderkam

Students at top universities frequently take high-paying entry-level jobs, and they are not passionate about their day-to-day work. Maybe in 5-10 years of “paying your dues,” those who stick it out will get their hands dirty with the fun and interesting work.
Instead of building [...]

I used to read Time, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal regularly, but this reading has largely been replaced by a single magazine, The Week, which bills itself as “All you need to know about everything that matters.”
Rather than hire a legion of reporters to cover news around the world, The Week [...]

Perhaps one of the most anxiety-inducing websites is www.irs.gov. But it doesn’t have to be.
These are some of my favorite features of www.irs.gov.
The search tool. Use the search feature to find easy-to-read information about anything related to federal taxes. When I search “deduct taxi,” the top hit is a page explaining that the cost of [...]