LIVE LAUNCH EVENT - Important info for your course: Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 12:00
Recording of live launch event held on 27/08/2024
Welcome from Jackie
How to use this platform to get the most out of your course
Download the app: Link and instructions
Purpose of this pre-course learning
What is Financial Planning?
What is the Certified Financial Planner™ Certification?
Podcast: CFP and the global financial planning profession
How the CISI L7 case study financial plan process works
When will I receive my case study?
The process: How to create a financial plan
Podcast: Your Financial Planning Maestro Experts Series - S8:E1 Preparation and approach
Reading: Must do!
Get up to speed technically: Resources
The structure of your financial plan
Additional resources
How to set the assumptions for your financial plan
Additional resources
The importance of assumptions in cashflow modelling
Podcast: Your Financial Planning Maestro Experts Series - S8:E2 Approach to calculations
How to construct a cashflow analysis
Additional resources: excel preparation
How we are going to use excel to build our income tax calculations
Personal risk and protection analysis
Additional resources
Estate planning - How to structure it
Additional resources
Podcast: Your Financial Planning Maestro Experts Series - S8:E3 Writing up your plan and making recommendations
Action plan, review and marking your plan
Final checks: Review
Here is a run down of the additional help that you can get from us
Have you been unsuccessful with your CFP case study assessment submission?
Podcast: Your Financial Planning Maestro Experts Series - S8:E4 Approach to take if you are unsuccessful
When will I receive my case study?
Start here when you have finished the pre-course learning and received your case study from CISI
Welcome from Jackie
Book your five 30-minute 1:2:1s here
LIVE GROUP SESSION: Thursday 05/09/2024 at 12:00 - An optional check-in to see how you are doing
Recording of live group check-in session held on 05/06/2024
LIVE GROUP SESSION: Thursday 03/10/2024 at 12:00 - An optional check-in to see how you are doing
LIVE GROUP SESSION: Thursday 17/10/2024 at 12:00 - An optional check-in to see how you are doing
How the CISI L7 case study financial plan process works
Purpose of this course
Must read info!
Podcast
Questions about your case study? Post it in the community chat using this link
The example case study that I'll be using throughout this course
Assumptions for our example financial plan case study
Day 1: What to do today
The process: Start creating your financial plan
Structuring your financial plan and setting up your table of contents page
How to set the assumptions for your financial plan
Assumptions in practice
Podcast: How to set and reason your assumptions
Rates of return
Applying your assumptions and constructing your spreadsheets
Podcast: The dangers of erring on the side of caution and what to do instead
Finding historic information and learning more about assumptions
Creating the text
School fees funding: Deep dive
Day 2 - What to do today
Overview: How to construct a cashflow analysis
Podcast: Advice from ex-assessors - Retirement planning
Retirement planning: Deep dive part 1 - income, pension and taxable assets
Retirement planning: Deep dive part 2 - income tax calculations
NEW: Expanding tax bands to include pension contributions or charity donations
Retirement planning: Deep dive part 3 - adding NICs
If you have large dividends in your case study
Retirement planning: Deep dive part 4 - building out the cashflow
Day 3 - What to do today
Personal risk analysis
Protection: Deep dive - death and ill health scenarios
The assessment standards and creating the text
Day 4 - What to do today
Estate planning - how to structure it
Estate planning: Deep dive
Day 5 - What to do today
Do this BEFORE writing up your financial plan
Podcast: Your Financial Planning Maestro Experts Series - S8:E3 Writing up your plan and making recommendations
Creating the text of your financial plan
What to do if your case study does NOT have a short-term objective
Creating the text and the assessment standards
Action plan and review
The assessment standards and creating the estate planning text
Common problems when writing up your plan wording and what to do about them
Podcast: Advice from ex-assessors - avoiding the common pitfalls
Podcast: Advice from ex-assessors - More financial plan assessment tips
Assessing your financial plan
Final checks: Common problems and assessment standards
Final checks: Paperwork to complete
Have you been unsuccessful with your CISI L7 case study assessment submission?
What happens next
End of course survey (<3 mins to complete)
We have lots planned for your course and will concentrate on these outcomes. We want you to be confident in dealing with your own case study and will give you numerous tools to help you. By the end of the course you will know how to.......
Specifically for those who can set aside five fulls days to work on their plan
Create your spreadsheets in five days
Contains all the content and support to create your financial plan
Avoid common mistakes
Mark your own financial plan and make the necessary amendments
Five 1:2:1s, 3.5 hours of group check-ins and and group community support
Online community chat to ask questions as they arise
Maximise your chances of passing
