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Test a money decision before you make it: change one input in your projection, look at the gap from your baseline, and see why a monthly cost outweighs a one-off purchase.

How a 12-month cash flow forecast catches the months a monthly budget hides, how to set aside for once-a-year costs, and how to work out your cash runway.

Children, career breaks, buying a home and moving abroad can often be planned for, though their timing may change. How to put them in the plan, and buffer for the rest.

Where to keep cash, not just how much: the three jobs cash does, the kinds of account that fit each, and what rising or falling rates do to each one.

Old pensions, forgotten savings accounts, unused cards: how to consolidate accounts, move an old pension without a tax bill, and what closing a card does to a credit score.