I’m sure you are now all familiar with the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” by Danny Boyle. It gathered the most number of awards from the recent Oscars Awards. It’s all about the story of Jamal Malik, an 18-year old orphan from slums on Mumbai in India. He joined the Hindi version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” game show and won. With the whole country watching the show, he is just one question away from winning the grand prize of 20 million rupees.

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The primary reason most people have money problems is that in school they were never taught cash flow management. Without this training, they wind up working harder and harder in the belief that making more money will solve their problems. Unfortunately, more money often just sends people deeper into debt. More money won’t solve problems if cash flow management is the problem. As CEO of the business of your life, you’ve created a personal financial statement and analyzed it. The next step

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In one of my old posts, I gave some steps that you should take in your journey to financial freedom. Having financial freedom gives us the liberty of doing the the things that we enjoy without having to think too much on where to get the next meal that we would feed to our families. You may be familiar with Kiyosaki’s Cash Flow Quadrant where he divided people depending on where their income flows. It is the famous ESBI which stands for E-Employee, S-Self Employed, B-Big Business

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WHAT IS AN EMERGENCY FUND? Life has a lot of uncertainties. You may not know that one day you’ve been hit by a calamity, you had an accident, you suddenly became ill, or your house got burned. In these circumstances, you need to be prepared. In personal finance, it is often called “saving for the rainy days”. These savings is often called emergency fund that is often used when we encounter emergency situations. WHERE SHOULD YOU PUT YOUR EMERGENCY FUND? Since emergency funds

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Ok, we tackled about the first two business entities already: Sole Proprietorship and Partnership. Like most of all of you know, the third business entity is Corporation. A third and very different choice of business form is the corporation. Unlike the sole proprietorship and the partnership, the corporation is an entity completely separate from you, the person incorporating it. Your company is now an “Inc,”, an Incorporated and with that designation comes some additional paperwork and

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Yesterday, we tackled about sole proprietorship as one of the three main types of business entities. As Kiyosaki said, sole proprietorship is not the kind of business entity that he can recommend because as a business owner, you would be “solely” responsible and liable to your business and there’s a risk of putting your personal assets in danger if the business fails. Today, we would tackle the next business entity and that is partnership. Like a sole proprietorship, a

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Let’s now review the three common business entities: Sole Proprietorship, Partnership and Corporation. In the US, there is one additional entity called LLC or Limited Liability Companies but since this is not applicable here in Philippines, let’s skip that for the moment. Let’s go first with the most common - Sole Proprietorship. “Sole”, as the word implies means “one” - you are the only sole owner of your business and you don’t have anyone to

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In one of my earlier posts, if you want to start a business and you don’t know where to find the capital to finance it, I enumerated some of the ways to fund and finance a business. In addition to seeking capital to finance your new business, you have to decide what form of financing you want. Will it be debt or equity financing, or a little of both? Debt financing is money borrowed and repaid over a designated period, usually with interest. This is an attractive form of financing

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We all need to have mentors if we have to reach some goals. Mentors are there to guide us along the way. They have achieved success in their endeavors and so they can teach us the do’s and don’ts that we should accomplish in order to mimic their success. Now that you’ve chosen your business, it’s time to choose your business mentors and your team. If you were planning to climb Mount Everest next year, wouldn’t you want to speak with someone who had survived the journey to

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In continuation of my previous post in buying a business as one way of entering the B-Business Quadrant, another way of entering a business is by buying a business franchise. Say you don’t have the courage for a start-up or the breadth of experience to buy a business. Then maybe franchising is the ideal choice for you. Franchising is a readymade business system that offers a promising avenue into business ownership. A reputable franchise gives you the advantage of a tried and true business

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In one of my previous posts, I mentioned that there are four ways in entering a business: Starting your own from scratch, buying an established business, buying a business franchise, and becoming a distributor of a business. Let us tackle first here “buying a business”. Buying a business eliminates the aspiring entrepreneur the hassles and headaches of a start up business. Before you buy an existing business, Kiyosaki recommends to weigh its pros and cons first: PROS of buying a

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Kiyosaki mentioned that there are different types of investors. When we classify these investors into ranks, then the ultimate investor would be on the top. Ultimate investors are business persons who have their own companies listed in stock exchange. According to Kiyosaki, ultimate investors create assets where there were none; they make money out of nothing. The ultimate investor spurs the economy in the community where his or her business exists through job creation. Ultimate investors

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As I have said in one of my post, one of the keys in achieving financial freedom is to earn more and desire less. Desiring less means controlling your spending. It has been said that no matter how huge your income is, if you don’t know how to control your spending and save for your future, you would end up nothing in the end. As one of my favorite quote in savings says: “Ubos ubos biyaya, bukas ay nakatunganga.” The first thing that you should do is to pay yourself first.

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In order for you to know where you want to go, you must first know where you are currently. To reach your financial goal, the first thing you must do is figure out where you are. For if you don’t know where you are, you can’t expect to get where you want to go. Knowing where you are means taking an honest inventory of your financial situation—filling out a financial statement—and taking a good hard look at the results. This may sound difficult, and maybe even a bit scary, but it’s a

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