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words alone mean little。 It's the story that counts。 In financial reporting; reading numbers is looking for the plot; the story。 The story of where the cash is flowing。 In 80 percent of most families; the financial story is a story of working hard in an effort to get ahead。 Not because they don't make money。 But because they spend their lives buying liabilities instead of assets。
For instance; this is the cash flow pattern of a poor person; or a young person still at home:
Job (provides ine)…》 Expenses(Taxes Food Rent Clothes Fun Transportation)
Asset (none)
Liability (none)
This is the cash flow pattern of a person in the middle class:
Job (provides ine)…》 Expenses(Taxes Food Mortgage Clothes Fun Transportation)
Asset (none)
Liability (Mortgage Consumer loans Credit Cards)
This is the cash flow pattern of a wealthy person:
Assets(stocks bonds notes real estate intellectual property)…》ine (dividends interest rental ine royalties)
Liabilities (none)
All of these diagrams were obviously oversimplified。 Everyone has living expenses; the need for food; shelter and clothing。
The diagrams show the flow of cash through a poor; middle class or wealthy person's life。 It is the cash flow that tells the story。 It is the story of how a person handles their money; what they do after they get the money in their hand。
The reason I started with the story of the richest men in America is to