| Course ID: | FHCE 4250. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Practice Management in Financial Planning |
Course
Description: | The skills needed to create and sustain a profitable practice in
financial planning. Topics pertain to issues facing professionals
when they start their practices, such as state licensures,
regulatory environment, marketing professional practices,
business networks, developing client bases, and effective and
ethical marketing techniques for practice in financial planning. |
| Oasis Title: | Practice Mgmt Financial Plan |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FHCE 6250, FHCE 6250E |
| Prerequisite: | FHCE 3200 or FHCE 3200E or FHCE 3250 or FHCE 3250E or HACE 3200 or HACE 3200E or HACE 3250 or HACE 3250E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Upon completion of this course, students should be able to do
the following:
• Understand ethics in financial planning and other
professional practices
• Articulate marketing, building, and servicing a
practice in financial planning
• Be able to answer the question, “what is financial
planning?”
• Regulations associated with financial planning and
other professions.
• Understanding financial planning technology
Methods of determining mastery of the Expected Learning
Outcomes are described in the Assignments and Exams sections
below. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. What is Financial Planning, Practice Standards
2. Ethics in Financial Planning and Other Professions
3. Developing a Practice
4. Structures of Planning Practice
5. Client Communications
6. Target/ Niche Marketing
7. Writing a Business Plan
8. Practice Technology
9. Issues Facing Professional Practices |