February 5, 2010. To live within your means, you must know your net financial expenses. These are the monthly total of your fixed, variable and discretionary expenses. To calculate your net financial expenses, you need your total fixed monthly expenses and your average monthly variable expenses.
In sum, there are essentially six elements to a contract. For a contract to be considered valid, there must be an offer, acceptance by another party, an exchange of something of value or consideration, mutually agreed upon terms, both parties must be free of mental illness and the terms must not break any laws.
For a contract to be legally enforceable, several conditions must be met. The parties to the contract must be competent adults, the subject of the agreement must be legal, the exchange must be based on valuable consideration and the contract must represent a meeting of the minds, signifying mutual assent.