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Targeted Plan 1 in week one sets up the client: the household, the goals, the starting balance sheet and cash flow, with a mini-case on the opening chapters.

Targeted Plan 2 in week two follows the chapter on the next planning area, usually cash flow, budgeting or debt, with its mini-case.

Targeted Plan 3 in week three follows the five chapters read that week, often insurance and risk management, the heaviest reading of the term.

Targeted Plan 4 in week four follows chapters ten and eleven, often investments, alongside the first forum.

Targeted Plans 5 and 6 in weeks five and six follow chapters twelve and thirteen, often retirement and estate or tax planning, each with a mini-case.

Week seven brings the second forum and the last mini-case, and week eight the comprehensive plan and the presentation.

The exact order of planning areas follows your case book and instructions, and each plan is written to that order.

Read as a sequence, the six plans walk through the financial planning process the way a planner would with a new client: understand the household, protect it, build its wealth, plan for retirement and settle the estate.

Each targeted plan follows the planning process: the client's current position in that area, the goal, the analysis with calculations and stated assumptions, the alternatives, the recommendation and how it affects the rest of the plan.

Calculations, such as an insurance needs analysis or a retirement projection, are shown in tables, with a spreadsheet attached.

Mini-cases are solved with the working shown and a short recommendation.

Where the planning software is required, the inputs are organized in the order the software asks for them, and the plan is written around the reports you send back.

The comprehensive plan merges the six plans, removes repetition, checks every figure for consistency and adds an executive summary and an action list.

For the presentation, the plan's main recommendations become a short deck with notes and a timed script.

Each piece is cited in APA 7 and delivered early.

An insurance plan for a household with two young children, for example, would calculate the life insurance each parent needs to replace income and fund education, compare term and permanent coverage, check disability coverage, and show the effect of the premiums on the monthly budget.

The comprehensive plan opens with an executive summary of the household's position and the five or six actions that matter most, then devotes a section to each planning area.

The coursework is done by a financial planning professional, usually a CFP professional or an experienced paraplanner who builds plans in planning software every week.

They know how a client's numbers ripple across areas, so a change in the insurance plan is reflected in the cash flow and the retirement projection that follow.

A second planner reviews each plan's calculations and recommendations before delivery. One writer handles all six targeted plans and the comprehensive plan, so the client, the figures and the assumptions stay the same from week one to week eight.

The coordinator keeps your details private, and a short explanation of any planning area, such as required minimum distributions, can be sent on request.

They keep a running list of the household's assumptions, which is the simplest way to make the comprehensive plan agree with every targeted plan.

Plans lose points when assumptions are missing or shift from week to week, which makes the comprehensive plan impossible to reconcile.

Recommendations lose points when their cost and their effect on other planning areas are not shown.

Insurance needs and retirement projections are the most error-prone calculations, and a small mistake in either changes the recommendation.

The comprehensive plan loses points when the six targeted plans are stapled together rather than merged. Week three combines five chapters with a plan and a mini-case, and week eight combines the comprehensive plan and the presentation.

Mini-cases look small but are graded on the working, and an answer without the steps shown earns little even when it is right.

Forum posts, though few, still need a clear position on the planning question the prompt sets, not a list of options.

Each targeted plan arrives several days before its week closes, with that week's mini-case alongside it, so there is time to read the plan and check that it matches your understanding of the household.

The two forum posts come early in weeks four and seven, and the comprehensive plan with its presentation materials early in week eight, leaving room to rehearse.

Targeted plans make up the largest share of the cost, and the comprehensive plan is the largest single line; the mini-cases and forums are small lines.

An order placed partway through is built on the plans you have already submitted, using your figures and your instructor's comments, so the household does not change halfway through the term.

Where your section requires the planning software, each plan's inputs are delivered in the order the software asks for them, and the text is finished once you send back the reports.