Cash-flow

Why we always talk about cash-flow? Why flow? What would be the main criteria for the health specifically on our blood circulation system? How about our plumbing system? How to judge our plumbing system is good enough? How about the traffic? What is the main criteria to claim that our traffic is good? YES!!! The answer is very simple where the FLOW is the main criteria to gauge the healthiness of all the above mentioned. Hence, the main criteria to gauge our health level in our financial report is the cash-flow. Some would say that this cash-flow is only applicable to business and not for individual which salary based source of income. Great! Let us discuss further about the cash-flow that we can apply in our day-life.

I believe most of us have read my previous article on Saving - Part 1 and Saving - Part 2 which is the main criteria to start our investment portfolio. I also have published on our first investment would be our steady savings which can be read here. As highlighted earlier where people may claim that cash-flow is only applicable for business and not much related to person with salary based source of income. This scenario is not really a credible scenario because the first investment portfolio is via our saving, you may read Investment – Savings. Hence, cash-flow for an individual as a start will be the amount allocated for the savings every month. If you noticed that you can’t able to manage your cash-flow at least with certain amount to show the positive cash-flow then you have to develop attitude towards investment mindset, you may read here to have some idea.

When you have developed to have positive cash-flow from your monthly income which is your salary based income source then with some capital you have developed from your saving you may start our investment portfolio. Bear in mind that when we discussing about the investment portfolio, it is not necessarily to be portfolio creating millions of dollar in our cash-flow but at least something positive which could be just RM 1. As we discussed earlier, we’ll find that our portfolio slowly will give more and more cash-flow which ultimately will create our multi-million wealth portfolio. How to reach that? Be patient and passionate with our goal to achieve our financial freedom. Remember the double-P!

Kepentingan Kewangan Peribadi – Bahagian 2

Seperti yang ditulis sebelum ini mengenai keseimbangan tunai adalah amat berkaitan dengan kesihatan kewangan kita. Ini adalah kerana keseimbangan ini adalah hasil daripada sikap kita dalam pengurusan kewangan kita. Pengurusan kewangan kita akan menghasilkan keseimbangan dalam aliran tunai kita sekiranya diurus dengan ilmu yang sentiasa berkembang selaras dengan kemudahan-kemudahan kewangan yang ditawarkan dalam pasaran terkini. Bagaimanakah semua ini mungkin?

Dalam menghasilkan keseimbangan aliran tunai kita yang sihat, perlulah kita dapat perhalusi aliran masuk dan keluar tunai kita supaya ianya dapat dikawal untuk memaksimumkan dalam simpanan dan pelaburan kita. Dengan pengurusan kewangan yang rapi, kita boleh mengesan ke mana hilangnya wang kita walaupun hanya RM 1. Mungkin ada yang menyatakan bahawa adalah amat cerewet untuk mencatit setiap satu perbelanjaan bagi setiap bulan. Namun, mesti ada hikmahnya dengan melakukan semua ini yakni wang untuk simpanan dapat dimaksimakan. Saya tidak menafikan ada yang meletakkan sebahagian amaun untuk perbelanjaan untuk setiap bulan supaya tidak leceh untuk menguruskan setiap perbelanjaan tersebut. Walau bagaimanapun, amaun tersebut dapat dikesan dengan memberikan segala senarai perbelanjaan supaya ianya lebih rasional kerana agar tidak terlampau rendah atau terlampau tinggi daripada perbelanjaan.

Setakat ini segala pengurusan kewangan yang dibincangkan adalah berdasarkan pengetahuan yang asas daripada gaji yang masuk setiap bulan dan perbelanjaan yang keluar setiap bulan. Ianya dapat dioptimumkan lebih lagi sekiranya dapat menggunakan kemudahan-kemudahan kewangan yang terdapat di pasaran. Ianya akan dibincangkan pada masa akan datang.

Simulation

Why do we need simulation tools or software in our life? There are both steady state and dynamic state simulation tools. Steady state is something which all the scenario are considered as ideal case whereby dynamic state is with some circumstances are introduced into it to see the impact to the results. So, how this simulation approach can be applied in this financial matter or our "Humble Financial Planning"?

We need to this simulation basically to develop some planning to be implemented into our real life for saving, investment, etc. This is something like to allocate certain amount for expenses, savings, and investment. We may come out with some plans where from the salary we're getting each month will be optimized in order to achieve our financial freedom. From this plan, we may able to accumulate at least RM 36,000 at the end of the year by saving RM 3,000 each month consistently. However, it may not be the real case where there are no savings some of the months; this may due to some emergencies, disciplines, attitudes, etc. We may end up with only 70%, 60%, 50%, 40%, or 30% of planned savings due to those circumstances. Hence, sometime steady state simulation may not be the real case but at least will give us some confident level to start saving, investing, and learning something related financial freedom. This simulation could be our own planning or with some attractive fun game which is via Monopoly, Saidina, Cashflow 101, etc. Those days these games seem like just for fun but actually can sharpen our intellectual in financial education.

Dynamic simulation mainly we introduce some disturbance similar to real situation and experiencing whatever possible consequences. Hence, by having dynamic simulation scenario will guide us closer to the real scenario.

Now, how to get the disturbances, scenarios, or circumstances when implementing our plan or in other words when start running the dynamic simulation? We must have certain level of financial education so that can apply whatever possible scenario; which this financial education has to be developed by reading, attending talks, listening to audio or video about finance subject matters. Always remember very popular proverb, "Failed to Plan is Planned to Fail".