Financial Planning Process Financial planning, especially at an early age can help to give your life focus and help you to achieve your goals in life. Financial planning gives you a set of tools to create wealth and build up a nest egg that you can use in case of emergency. Financial planning also gives you direction, direction you need to make informed decisions about investments so that you won't make any mistakes and you can reap the benefits for the rest of your life. The Financial Planning Standards Boards (FPSB) defines the financial planning process as consisting of the following six steps. We have just reproduced the exact process prescribed Establish and define the client-planner relationship: The financial planner should clearly explain and document the services that he or she will provide to clients and define both his/her and clients responsibilities during the financial planning engagement. The financial planner should explain fully how financial planner will...