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If you have understood what is a financial plan, that is just part of the job. The real job is to get down to the brass tacks. The next question is how to make a financial plan. To actually understand how to create a financial plan, you must get a full hang of the process of financial planning. Here is how to make a financial plan.
To understand how to make a financial plan, you must obviously start with the goals. That is where it all begins. But goals are the starting point. There is a lot more to the creation, assessment, evaluation and monitoring of a financial plan that you need to be familiar. Here let us look at the key steps involved when you sit down to create a financial plan.
There are broadly two approaches to financial behaviour The first is the detailed study of how an individual’s upbringing, family, community etc impact their spending and savings decisions. This called the causal study. For example, North Europeans tend to be more conservative on spending than South Europeans. In India, the communities like Marwaris have a better sense of thrift, which is passed on to the generations.
Having the seen the cause, let us also look at the effect. You can also look at financial behaviour in terms of how people behave in terms of the usage of cash and credit as well as savings behaviour. For a long time, Indians preferred cash but have seamlessly shifted to digital means. Similarly, India remains credit conservative with the explosive growth in debit cards not matched by the growth in credit cards. This list can just go on.
It is not just enough to create a plan. Such plans must also be reviewed, monitored on a regular basis and appropriate changes made where necessary. Here are 3 steps to review the financial plan.
Here is how you can go about allocating funds to your assets when you create a financial plan.
There could be future losses due to market vagaries, falling yields, higher taxes or higher inflation. When it comes to projecting future losses, try to be liberal and factor in as many worst case scenarios as possible.
When you make any estimate, the past estimates will be your guide to extrapolate the future. That is the crux when you create a financial plan.
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