Test Bank - Personal Financial Planning ED.15 by Randy Billingsley, Lawrence J. Gitman & Michael D. Joehnk- Complete Elaborated and Latest Test Bank. ALL Chapters(1-15) included - Updated for 2025

SOLUTION MANUAL Personal Financial Planning
15th Edition by Billingsley All chapters 1 to 15

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1. Understanding the Financial Planning Process.
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2. Developing Your Financial Statements and Plans.
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3. Preparing Your Taxes.
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Part II: MANAGING BASIC ASSETS. g6 g6 g6 g6




4. Managing Your Cash and Savings.
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5. Making Automobile and Housing Decisions.
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Part III: MANAGING CREDIT. g6 g6 g6




6. Using Credit.
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7. Using Consumer Loans.
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Part IV: MANAGING INSURANCE NEEDS. g6 g6 g6 g6




8. Insuring Your Life.
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9. Insuring Your Health.
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10. Protecting Your Property.
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Part V: MANAGING INVESTMENTS. g6 g6 g6




11. Investment Planning.
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12. Investing in Stocks and Bonds.
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13. Investing in Mutual Funds and Real Estate.
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Part VI: RETIREMENT AND ESTATE PLANNING. g6 g6 g6 g6 g6




14. Planning for Retirement.
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15. Preserving Your Estate.
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Understanding the FinancialPlanningProce g6 g 6g6 6
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How Will This Affect Me? g6 g6 g6 g6




The heart offinancialplanning is making sure your values line up with how you spend and save. That me
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ans knowing where you are financiallyand planning onhow to get where you want to be in the future no m
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atter what life throws at you. For example, how should your plan handle the projection that SocialSecuri
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tycosts mayexceed revenues by 2035? And what ifthe government decides to raise tax rates to help cove
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r the federal deficit? An informed financial plan should reflect such uncertainties and more.
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This chapter overviews the financial planning process and explains its context. Topics include how fi
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nancialplans change to accommodate your current stage in life and the role that financial planners can
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play in helping you achieve your objectives. After reading this chapter you will have a good perspecti
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ve on how to organize your overall personal financial plan.
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LEARNINGGOALS g6




LG1 Identify the benefits ofusing personalfinancialplanning techniques to manage your finances
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,Key concept in this section is the planning model as displayed in Exhibit 1.1. Your standard of living is
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greatly impacted by your spending habits and your commitment to saving. Your spending is measure
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d byyourpropensity to consume. Wealth is the totalvalue ofallproperty you own less the amount tha
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t you owe to others.
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ACTIVITY: Ask the studentsto assumethat theyhave just inherited $100,000. What willyou do with
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the money? Write downthree ways you will spend or use the money.
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, Ask the studentsto share one itemwiththe class and record what theysayso that the entire class can refle
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ct onthe answers. Hopefully, at least a few will mention investing even ifonly$10,000 ofthe amount.
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Use their answers to discuss taking care ofcurrent needs versus future needs.
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Focus ontheir propensityto consume and its impact onaccumulating wealth. Point out the FinancialPlan
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ning Tip, ―Be SMART inPlanning Your FinancialGoals.‖
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Use Exhibit 1.2 to show howthe average personearns and spends their moneyand Exhibit 1.6 to help the s
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LG2 Describe the personalfinancialplanning processand define yourgoals.
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DwightEisenhower,armygeneraland president, isquotedassaying ―Plansareuseless;Planning is pric
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eless‖. The process of planning allows you to focus on the issues that are most important and to be read
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y when things change.
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Exhibit 1.3 lists the Six Step Financial Planning Process. The first and most important is defining your
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financial goals. Exhibit 1.6 lists goals by age to demonstrate how goals change overt ime. Use the exa
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mples inExhibit 1.5 to ask studentsifthe assumptions are realistic. Yes, the answer is inthe exhibit, but
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manywillnot have read chapter atthis point. For your use, the assumptions are:
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Assumption 1: Saving a few thousand dollarsa year should provide enoughto fund mychild‘s colleg g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 6
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e Education.
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Assumption 3: I will be able to retire at 65 and should have plentyto live on inretirement. Assum g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 g6 6
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ption 4: I‘mrelying on the rule ofthumb that I will need only70 percent of mypre-
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retirement income to manage nicely in retirement.
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There are several worksheets in the book. Worksheet 1.1 gives the student a format to write downtheir
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PersonalFinancialGoals. There is power inwriting downgoals[and most anyother plan]. Recording t
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he goaland thenreviewing three months later will help you to keep focus on the goal.
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LG3 Explain the life cycle of financial plans, their role in achieving your financial goals, how to
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dealwith specialplanning concerns, and theuse of professionalfinancialplanners.
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Exhibit 1.7 can help focus the attention on how goals differ between the various stages of life. Section
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1-3b lists various decisions that you will have to make over your life. The section 1-
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3c addresses Special Planning Concerns. Worksheet 1.2 focuses on the financial benefit to the family
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ofthe second income. Ifthe second income is froma minimumwage job, it maynot be a goodfinanciald
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ecision. Ofcourse having a job, evena minimumwage job, maygive theperson psychic income that wi
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ll override the financial impact.
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While perhaps off topic, I recall a high school science teacher who was a smoker. He walked throught
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he amount ofmoney he spent onpurchasing tobacco products. That computation had a
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