5.3 Financial Goals

• Meaning of financial goals
• Importance of setting goals in financial management
• Financial discipline in financial management
• Factors to consider when setting financial goals
• Needs, wants, income and time as factors
• SMART financial goals
• Formulating financial goals for individual development
• Saving with M-Pesa, cash and school-safe methods
• Observing financial discipline in day-to-day choices

• explain the importance of setting goals in financial management
• analyse the factors to consider when setting financial goals
• formulate financial goals for individual development
• observe financial discipline in financial management

“Why is it important to set financial goals?”

“What are the factors to consider when setting financial goals?”

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1. What a financial goal is
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   Define a financial goal as a planned money target with a purpose, an amount and a time, at Grade 7 scale.
2. Why setting financial goals matters
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   Explain that goals give money a job: direction, less waste, readiness for fees or shocks, and a growth habit.
3. Financial discipline
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Describe financial discipline as recording, saving first, waiting, and staying honest, including when M-Pesa makes spending easy.
4. Factors to consider when setting financial goals
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Analyse six factors — income, needs and wants, time, family, risk, honesty — before writing a money goal.
5. Needs, wants and income
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Analyse needs before wants and use a quiet week of real income as the ceiling for a Grade 7 goal.
6. Time, family and risk
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Analyse deadline, household duty and money risks including scam SMS so a goal stays possible and safe.
7. SMART financial goals
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound financial goals, converting a wish into one checkable sentence.
8. Formulate a goal for individual development
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Write one SMART financial goal that builds learning, health or a skill, then check it with a trusted adult.
9. Saving with M-Pesa, cash and safe places
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Choose a legal, watched channel for the save — trusted adult, M-Pesa, labelled tin, or official school scheme — and protect the PIN.
10. Practising financial discipline
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Observe financial discipline for a week: save first, record cash or M-Pesa, refuse one impulse, and review on Friday.