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Poll: Do you do any end-of-year financial planning?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 22:49
Member (2007)
uit Engels in Portugees
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No Dec 10, 2025

To make any annual financial plan, I would need to know how much I will earn per month, and that is increasingly unknown...

María Domínguez Camba
Maria Laura Curzi
Ian Keith Jones Williams
 
Maria Laura Curzi
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Argentinië
Local time: 18:49
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Monthly, sometimes fortnight Dec 10, 2025

Due to freelancing, it's been years that my translation income has been unstable, so I have gotten used to doing monthly financial planning throughout the year.

Plus, I live in a country that seems to have perpetual economic problems that worsen as the end-of-year approaches every single year, so it's been decades that most of the Argentinian population tries to make ends meet every month or sometimes every fortnight.
 
Samuel Murray
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Nederland
Local time: 23:49
Member (2006)
uit Engels in Afrikaans
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I know I should Dec 10, 2025

I know I should, but there is generally not enough money left over at the end of the year to do much planning with anyway. Or, there is, but I have to hold on to it in case January-April are dead months.

Philip Lees
 
Oscar Núñez Alfaro
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Costa Rica
Local time: 15:49
Member (Oct 2026)
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I do basic financial planning. Dec 10, 2025

I try to do it to get an idea how much I have earned each month and during the year. Thus, I could plan to work more, market myself to get some more direct clients, or just look at my progress and utilities.
 


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