a. What financial tools described in this chapter can help you make better financial decisions?
Creating various budgets and reviewing financial history and predicting future are all tools that can help us in making better financial decisions. Comprehensive budgeting reveal our financial power and opportunities, if there is a deficit we are ought to cut back expenses, increase income or both. If we discover surplus then it gives us a possibility to …show more content…
All these stages and sources must be evaluated and carefully analyzed before usage and this is why knowing how to create a comprehensive budget may be crucial for its success. The basic meaning of having a comprehensive budget is to evaluate and plan our finance to meet certain target, fulfill a goal and have a more detailed insight into our financial future. This information is important regarding ones plans of future career, investments or changing lifestyle.
The first step in creating a CB is to note all recurring incomes, the incomes that are relatively regular and may be relied upon. These incomes may be a salary, dividends or a copyright fee. The purpose of noting down the incomes is to create a base which will determine our financial boundaries. After the income is noted then come the expenses, noting down all annuities or recurring expenditures is even more important than income. Leaving one expense out may skew the whole budget and make us act upon wrong information. In this list there are household expenses, rent, loan payments, entertainment, clothing, car maintenance expenses and hobby related