Personal
Finance
Personal Financial
Planning
Overview
Personal Financial Planning – The process of managing your
money in order to achieve personal economic satisfaction or
financial freedom
Grow!
Personal vs Corporate Financial Goals
Financial Plan
• Formalized reports
• Summarizes
current financial
condition
• Analyzes financial
needs
• Recommends
future financial
activities
• Increases ability to obtain, use
Advantages of efficiently, & protect financial
resources
Financial Planning • Increase control over financial affairs
• Improves personal relationships
• Provides freedom
Personal Value & Life Cycle
• Adult life cycle – the stages in the family situation and financial
needs
• Life situation factors – Marital status, home size, & employment
• Major events in life – Graduation, marriage divorce, birth, career
change, & health changes
• Values – Ideas you feel to be correct, desirable, & important
Age
• 18-24
• 25-34
• 35-44
• 45-54
• 55-64
• 65 and over
Marital Status
• Single • Divorced
• Married • Widowed
• No other members
• Preschool Children
• Elementary &
Number & Age secondary
of Household schoolchildren
Members • College students
• Dependent adults
• Nondependent
adults
• Full time student
Employment • Not employed
Status • Full time employment
• Part time employment
• Get career training
Common Financial
• Create an effective financial
Goals & Activities recordkeeping system
• Develop a regular savings &
investment program
Common Financial
Goals & Activities
Continued
• Having an
emergency fund
• Getting appropriate
insurance coverage
• Create & implement
a flexible budget
Common Financial Goals
& Activities Continued
• Evaluate & pick investments
• Make and implement a plan for
retirements goals
• Create a will & make an estate
plan