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Financial planning plays an extremely important role in a system such as home accounting. It lets you distribute income correctly among expense items. Financial planning involves drawing up a planned record of the expense side of the budget for a certain period. As a rule, this is a month or a year.

The basis of financial planning of the family budget is the figures of the previous period. If you are only starting to keep home accounting, the basis for drawing up a plan can be payment slips, receipts and store checks for the base period. Relying on them, you can determine the amount of expenses made in a given household area.

If you already keep track of the movement of funds in the family budget, the basis for the financial plan will be the report for the previous month. It should be the actual financial record of the money spent, because it shows the real picture of expenses by item.

Financial planning of the family budget is divided into short-term and long-term. Short-term planning lets you effectively distribute monthly income among regular expense items. Long-term planning involves creating savings target funds and filling them with money.

Comparing the planned and actual reports allows a detailed analysis of the family budget and reveals its weaknesses. As a rule, they show up as excess costs or low income. When drawing up a long-term financial plan you should also take possible price rises into account. That is, if the annual planned expenses include a summer vacation, the sum to be saved should equal what was spent the previous year plus a reserve in case prices rise.

When drawing up both long-term and short-term plans, objectivity plays an important role. If for some reason you cannot give up or reduce a certain expense item, you should not remove it from the plan in order to idealize it. On the contrary, in financial planning of the family budget you should take into account the maximum costs that may be incurred in different areas of life. This will increase the likelihood that the plan will be fulfilled.

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