Which of the following is NOT an objective of financial planning?

Ensuring excess availability of funds at the right time

The correct answer is option 2- Ensuring excess availability of funds at the right time.

Ensuring excess availability of funds at the right time is not an objective of financial planning.

Financial planning is the preparation of a financial blueprint of an organisation’s future operations. The objective of financial planning is to ensure that enough funds are available at right time. Financial planning strives to achieve the following twin objectives-
(a) To ensure availability of funds whenever required
(b) To see that the firm does not raise resources unnecessarily.

A proper matching of funds requirements and their availability is sought to be achieved by financial planning. This process of estimating the fund requirement of a business and specifying the sources of funds is called financial planning. Financial planning takes into consideration the growth, performance, investments and requirement of funds for a given period. Financial planning includes both short-term as well as long-term planning.