Financial Planning For Beginners

Series Summary

Financial planning can be a stressful and often times overwhelming task. With bills, taxes, investments, mortgages, loans, savings, and credit, keeping finances straight and developing a plan for your money to stay in order and expand takes a good deal of knowledge on how finance functions. Whether you want to or not, developing a good financial plan is essential to success and the experts at ExpertVillage want to help.

In this free video series, watch as financial consultant Tammy Trenta teaches financial planning for beginners. Get different finance tips like: how to set up a 401K, opportunities in real estate, how to set up a college savings account, how to put together a balance sheet, how to create a spending plan, how to become your own CFO, how to invest your money, and how to share expenses in a marriage.

Video Transcript

"Hi everyone, I'm Tammy Trenta and welcome to Expert Village. I'm a certified financial planner and some people might wonder, now, why would you want to get into that field? Well for me, when I went to college my parents both went into bankruptcy and I set out to learn as much as I can about managing money as I could. So, thirteen years later, her I am and I'm happy to share with you today all of the insights I have learned in my experience. We're going to talk about things from starting out when you graduate from high school and go to college and what to do with your first credit card. We'll talk about buying a home, we'll talk about getting married and how do you co-mingle your finances and how to make it not such a heated topic of married couples. We'll learn how to invest your money in a 401K, how to invest your savings and what types of investments make the most sense for you, depending on your financial situation. Well, we all have to start somewhere, and whether you're financially flawed or financially fortunate, here's some no brainers about managing your finances without paying unnecessary fees and expenses. Let's get started."