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This is Fred Ball for Zions Bank, speaking on business.
Improving one's personal finances is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions each year. Unfortunately, old bad habits are hard to replace with good habits. Most people know what to do to get ahead financially, but they don't know how to do it. Well, Zions Bank created the "Eliminate Needless Debt" or END Program to bridge this gap.
Last fall the END Program had nearly 800 people enroll in a once-a-week personal finance course called Financial Peace University. After finishing the 13-week course, families, on average, added $1,000 to their savings and paid off $3,400 in debt.
Because of these impressive results, Zions is once again bringing this educational course to local communities in Utah and Idaho. The lessons focus on teaching people how to save more, eliminate needless debt and build wealth. Other topics covered include marriage and money, understanding insurance and investments, how to buy and sell a home, and careers and extra jobs.
Financial Peace University is the creation of consumer advocate and best selling author Dave Ramsey. Dave was a millionaire with too much personal debt who ended up going bankrupt 15 years ago. Learning from his mistakes, Dave created this life changing personal finance course. More than 100,000 families have enrolled nationwide.
Classes are starting along the Wasatch front, and more can be added anywhere Zions Bank does business, if there is community demand. I highly recommend this financial course for all those who want to learn how to save more, eliminate needless debt and build wealth for retirement and college funding. It's not too late to enroll. Just call 1-800-376-7092 or visit www.endprogram.com. This course will not only help you be financially savvy, it will also help you accomplish at least one of your New Year's resolutions.
For Zions Bank, I'm Fred Ball. I'm speaking on business.
