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WHY IS FINANCIAL PLANNING IMPORTANT?
A comprehensive financial plan serves as a framework for organizing the pieces of your financial picture. With a financial plan in place, you’ll be better able to focus on your goals and understand what it will take to reach them. One of the main benefits of having a financial plan is that it can help you balance competing financial priorities. Click here to read more
Even before your children can count, they already know something about money: it’s what you have to give the ice cream man to get a cone, or put in the slot to ride the rocket ship at the grocery store. So, as soon as your children begin to handle money, start teaching them how to handle it wisely. Click here to read more
Congress has designated April as National Financial Literacy Month in order to raise awareness about the importance of financial literacy education in the United States. How well do you understand personal finance? Take this quiz to test your knowledge