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The financial planning process is a series of steps outlining how best to use money, investments, and other assets to potentially achieve financial goals.
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Most financial plans focus on saving goals, payoff goals, and estate planning goals to develop a road map to financial freedom.
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The steps to financial planning.
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Step one, define and comprehend your financial objectives and goals.
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Your goals and objectives act as the guide to the financial plan and should provide a road map to your financial future.
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These objectives must be quantifiable and achievable.
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They need to be clear and they need to have a defined time frame and they should also be and they also should be able to separate your needs from your wants.
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You need to pay your rent or mortgage every month to ensure you continue to have a roof over your head.
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My wanting to go to paris is a want.
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These things should be documented with your financial advisor, business partners, in order to assist you in measuring your progress.
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These objectives should be periodically reviewed to note dynamic circumstances and ensure their relevancy is maintained.
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As we go through life, things change and that can change our objectives and goals.
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Maybe health declines and we're no longer able to travel so i might still want to go to paris but if it's no longer practical, it doesn't make sense to have it as part of my financial planning plan as an objective or goal.
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Number two, gathering your financial and personal information.
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The financial planning process and its success will depend on the quality and clarity of the information communicated to your advisor and this is detailed and this is a detailed information concerning your income and expenditure, assets and liabilities, as well as your risk attitude, tolerance, and capacity.
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And it's important that when you're providing this information that you are honest because if you are hiding things, if you're hiding spending habits, if you're hiding liabilities, it's going to be harder to meet those goals and objectives that you have set.
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Number three, analyze your financial and personal information.
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The financial advisor reviews your information provided and uses it to produce a report that reflects your current financial portfolio...