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What is the difference between a fixed and variable expense?

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Kandance Beamon
Signal Financial
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What is the difference between a fixed and variable expense?

In this video, Vikki Frank, Kandance Beamon, and Linda Stroman, financial education providers describe several key areas to address regarding debt reduction and elimination. This video is designed to deliver basic financial information to assist individuals and families to be able to identify goals and process strategies for their specific financial needs. The topics included in this video cover are: self-evaluation of debt load, budgeting strategies, understanding the effects on your credit and scores, why savings is important, how to develop a debt elimination plan, and the importance of financial education and how financial counseling may be useful.

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Speaker: What is the difference between a fixed and variable expense?

Kandance Beamon: The difference between a fixed and variable expense would be, fixed expenses are those things that don't change from month to month. They are the things such as your rent or your mortgage, such as that car payment. Those expenses that every month you know will be a set amount. The variable expenses are those things that depend on your usage. So there will be things like your cell phone bill, because may be you don't use your cell phone a lot that month and your bill might be lower or may be you are going over your minutes and your bill would be higher than what it typically is or may be you have extra amount of text messages on your cell phone bill and that what causes your bill to go up an additional $20, $30. So really looking at the fixed expenses are those things that you can set your watch to, you know every month they will be here and you will have to pay your rent, your mortgage, your car no, your home owner's fees, all of those things and your variable expenses would be things like your electric bill or your utilities because they will depend on usage. Your water bill, your cell phone bill and also too, variable expenses are those things that may not come every month. So it may not be a monthly bill, it may be a bill that comes every quarter, which would be a periodic bill, however it would also be based on your usage.

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