Personal Finance by Rachel Siegel and Carol Yacht

Rachel Siegel

Rachel Siegel
Professor, Business Administration, Lyndon State University
M.B.A., Yale University

Rachel S. Siegel, CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) has been a professor of finance, economics, and accounting at Lyndon State College since 1990. She has also taught as an adjunct faculty at Trinity College (VT), Granite State (NH), Springfield College, the University of Vermont, and in Tel Aviv for the Israel Program of Champlain College.

Siegel is a member of the Vermont CFA Society, the CFA Institute, the Board of Scholars of the Ethan Allen Institute, and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. She has served as a consultant on investment strategy to endowments and to private clients.

Originally from Providence, R.I., Siegel earned a B.A. and an MBA, both from Yale University.

Siegel’s column “Follow the Money” has been a regular feature of the Northstar Monthly (Danville, VT) and the Ammonoosuc Times (Littleton, NH) since 2001. She writes book summaries and reviews for Kiplinger’s and edits academic papers for peer-reviewed journal publication. She has presented numerous workshops on aspects of financial management and planning.

Carol Yacht

Carol Yacht is a textbook author and accounting educator. Carol contributes regularly to professional journals and is the Accounting Section Editor for Business Education Forum, a publication of the National Business Education Association. She is the author of Dynamics-GP (Great Plains), Peachtree, Microsoft Office Accounting, QuickBooks, and Excel textbooks; and the accounting textbook supplement, Carol Yacht’s General Ledger and Peachtree CD-ROMs (www.mhhe.com/yacht). Carol taught on the faculties of California State University, Los Angeles; West Los Angeles College; Yavapai College; and Beverly Hills High School. Since 1978, Carol has included software in her classes to help students master accounting.

Carol Yacht is an officer of the American Accounting Association’s Two-Year College section and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a member of the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance Advisory Council; served on NBEA’s Computer Education Task Force; worked for IBM Corporation as an education instruction specialist; and is a frequent speaker at state, regional, and national conventions. Carol earned her MA degree from California State University, Los Angeles; BS degree from the University of New Mexico, and AS degree from Temple University.