1.Always spend much less than what you earn-focus in developing your own goals 2.Pay off your debt diligently
3.Reduce periodic expenditure-exercise patience/restraint-but what you want when you want
4.Keep an eye on the media and advertisements
5.Invest your time wisely
6.Prepare for far off expenses now 7.Be honest about your finances with your spouse
8.Emergencies are a normal aspects of life 9.Be kind to people around you-Gives you a very deep sense of peace
10.Make the money work for you rather than working for it
11.Always conduct research first-never invest money in a project that you have no interest for-You need to be passionate for you to thrive…never be in a hurry to invest in anything
12.If you must take a debt, watch out for the interest rates
13.A budget is everything-Treat your personal life as a business-Budget(accountability)
14.Take into the consideration the trade-offs in your life
15.Remain committed to a single financial plan(action)
16.Put in place a retirement plan
17.Pay Insurance-What you take to get there-Helps you remain there
18.Keep proper financial records
19.Make your tax payments on time-Pay on time if you want to remain in good books with the government
20.Do not live a flashy lifestyle(Live within your means) 21.Do not be materialistic 22.Do make impulsive decisions
23.Never be afraid to ask for help/soliciting assistance
24.Always meditate to be in the right state of mind
25.Taking breaks from work
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20 Personal finance skills that you need to know
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A THREAD >>>
1. M-PESA -Launched in 2007 in Kenya, M-Pesa is today available in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Ghana, and Egypt.
2. Flutterwave is an African focussed fintech that allows merchants and consumers to make digital payments domestically, intra-africa and globally. It also allows individuals and business to create online shops
It was founded and graduated from Y Combinator in 2016
3. Eversend
Eversend is an Africa-focused fintech company that launched in March 2019. It was founded by @StoneAtwine and Ronald Kasendwa. Eversend provides multiple financial products ranging from multi-currency wallets, cross-border money transfer, currency exchange, trading
1. Person to Person (P2P)
This refers to person-to-person transfers. To top up an M-PESA wallet, customers can either go to an M-PESA agent and convert hard cash into liquid cash or they can send the money from their bank account to M-PESA in what is known >>
as B2C(business to customer transaction). From here one can use the cash for several transactions such as payments, sending to another M-PESA subscriber etc. >>
Today from 5pm, we will do a full thread on our analysis of Scangroup from a Financial analysis point of view.
Stay tuned. Stay curious
1. We start by look at the following items before we delve into WPP SCAN GROUP PLC numbers for 2019 & 2020
i) 5 items that will make you understand the financials of any business
ii) 3 Key financial statements
Ice-Breaker- Accounting is a storytelling system. It tells the story of a business.
This is a picture of a butterfly. It is not a butterfly, so the financials of WPP SCAN GROUP PLC simply tell us the story of the company.
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A wonderful business to own in the stock market is one that functions similarly to a toll bridge
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Every Financial Institution that wants to do money transactions to serve many Kenyans must pass through the platform
2. Supplier of Suppliers
Safaricom supplies M-PESA and other services to different industries.
These industry players then offer these services to end-users or customers. >>