What's Your Future Worth? :Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions

Publication subTitle :Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions

Author: Neuwirth Peter  

Publisher: Berrett Koehler‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9781626563025

Subject: F830.59 Investment

Keyword: 心理学,财政、金融

Language: ENG

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We weigh every significant decision based on how it will affect our future. But when it comes to figuring that out, we mostly make the process up as we go along. While financial professional Peter Neuwirth can't help you actually predict the future, he can offer a simple, systematic way to make much better guesses about it—and so make better decisions.

Neuwirth offers an accessible, step-by-step guide to using the powerful concept of Present Value—which allows you to determine the value today of something that might happen in the future—to evaluate
all of the outcomes that might arise from choosing one path as opposed to another. Using examples that anyone can relate to, Neuwirth walks you through the process. Your old refrigerator doesn't work as well as it used to—should you buy a new one right away or muddle through for a while? You're offered a great discount on a service you don't need at the moment but eventually will—buy the service now or wait?

With just a little math and some common sense, you can compare future costs and benefits with present costs and benefits and make “apples to apples” comparisons. This book will be indispensable for anyone who has ever had to figure out whether to stick with an awful job or follow his

Chapter

Chapter 1 Mordecai’s Proposition—A Question of Present Value

Chapter 2 Present Value in the Day-to-Day World

Chapter 3 Making Big Decisions

Chapter 4 The Mechanics of Present Value—What Is a Discount Rate?

Chapter 5 Step 1—Clarify the Choice

Chapter 6 Step 2—Imagine the Future

Chapter 7 Step 3—Evaluate the Possibilities

Chapter 8 Step 4—Weigh the Now and the Later

Chapter 9 Step 5—“Do the Numbers”

Chapter 10 Present Value for Organizations and Communities

Chapter 11 When Money Doesn’t Matter

Chapter 12 Present Value and the Distant Future—Planting Trees and Leaving a Legacy

Chapter 13 The Value of the Actuarial Perspective and “The Rest of Your Life”

Notes and References

Acknowledgments

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