Budget Management
Read our budget-related articles and real-life stories to help you track your spending and successfully manage your financial priorities.

Budget : Making choices
Listing all personal items and other non-essential expenses will alert you on where your money is going. This will allow you to make choices, eliminate or reduce non-essential expenses...

Student Debt
Student debt is treated differently from other debts in a consumer proposal or bankruptcy.

The essentials of a proper budget
How should you properly allocate the expenses in a personal budget? An overview of the ideal distribution of the main budget expenses is as follows: for housing, you should not allocate more than...

The ABCs of a simple and efficient budget
We all know the importance of keeping a budget, but knowing how much we will have to spend for each expense category is no easy feat. While each person’s situation...

Détecter les signaux d’alarme avant la débâcle financière
Avant de devenir gros et incontrôlables, les problèmes financiers ont commencé par être petits et discrets. Ils vous ont pourtant envoyé des signaux d’alarme qu’il vaut mieux reconnaître pour...

Properly planning important expenses
Summer holidays are over. Even back-to-school is a thing of the past! Like many Quebecers, Emily must now pay off the balance on her credit card, encumbered with not...
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