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CFP Japan study plan

CFP Japan · Give each week a clear focus.

6 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

ライフプランニング・リタイアメントプランニング

  • Build a balance sheet and year-by-year cash-flow model with explicit units.

  • Distinguish pension records, estimates, liquidity, longevity, and life-stage changes.

Your checkpoint

A scenario-based household model with documented pension and access assumptions.

Week 2

タックスプランニング

  • Separate receipts, expenses, income, deductions, tax, credits, withholding, and final settlement.

  • Identify the tax year, effective date, national or local system, and regulated-service boundary.

Your checkpoint

A calculation-stage map and a dated primary-reference checklist.

Week 3

金融資産運用設計

  • Calculate total return, ratios, currency effects, allocation drift, and fees.

  • Distinguish NISA tax treatment from market risk and current rules from future changes.

Your checkpoint

A risk-and-cost comparison tied to separate near-term and long-term goals.

Week 4

リスクと保険

  • Estimate financial protection gaps using confirmed resources and benefits.

  • Review policy parties, coverage triggers, exclusions, renewal, surrender, and replacement sequencing.

Your checkpoint

A needs-based protection review that preserves actual policy conditions.

Week 5

不動産運用設計

  • Distinguish coverage and floor-area ratios, gross yield, NOI, debt service, and net proceeds.

  • Check rights, restrictions, hazards, physical condition, leases, and repair funding.

Your checkpoint

A property due-diligence and stressed cash-flow worksheet.

Week 6

相続・事業承継設計 & タックスプランニング & ライフプランニング・リタイアメントプランニング

  • Separate legal distribution, tax, liquidity, corporate control, and guarantees.

  • Complete all integrated cases and review a fresh mixed question set before reading keys.

Your checkpoint

A coordinated succession checklist and an error log with next-step professional and study needs.

Milestones

Week 2: Reconstruct a tax calculation without confusing an income deduction, tax credit, and withholding.

Week 4: Explain why a product label or low initial premium does not prove suitability.

Week 6: Integrate household, property, and succession issues while stating all assumptions and boundaries.