About the Authors
Lita Epstein earned her MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. She enjoys helping people develop good financial, investing, and tax planning skills.
While attending Goizueta, Epstein worked as a teaching assistant for the financial accounting department and ran the accounting lab. After completing her MBA, she managed finances for a small not-for-profit organization and for the facilities management section of a large medical clinic.
She designs and teaches online courses on topics such as accounting, bookkeeping, and starting your own business. She’s written more than 40 books, including Bookkeeping For Dummies, Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, Trading For Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), The Business Owner’s Guide to Reading and Understanding Financial Statements, and Financial Decision Making (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
Epstein was the content director for the financial services website MostChoice.com and managed the website Investing for Women. As a congressional press secretary, she gained firsthand knowledge about how to work within and around the federal bureaucracy, which gives her great insight into how government programs work. She has also been a daily-newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and fundraiser for the international activities of former President Jimmy Carter through The Carter Center.
John A. Tracy is professor (emeritus) of Accounting at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Before his long tenure in Boulder, he was ...
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