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- Lou's Software Development
- 10-175 Elm Ridge Dr.
- Kitchener, Ontario N2N 1L7
- (C)opyright 1990-1992 - Lou's Software Development
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- The AMORT disk, containing a copy of this manual, may be copied
- and shared at will, under the condition that the program is
- not distributed in modified form and that no fee or
- consideration is charged. Printed copies of this document, may
- not be copied or distributed without permission from Lou's
- Software.
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- LIMITED WARRANTY
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- THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
- ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE
- OF THESE PROGRAMS IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE
- DEFECTIVE, YOU (NOT LOU'S SOFTWARE) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL
- NECESSARY REPAIR, SERVICING, OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT WILL
- LOU'S SOFTWARE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
- LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
- DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THESE
- PROGRAMS, EVEN IF LOU'S SOFTWARE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC
- LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM
- PROVINCE TO PROVINCE OR STATE TO STATE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW
- THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR
- INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO
- YOU. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT,
- UNDERSTAND IT, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
- YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT IT IS THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT
- OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN US, WHICH SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR
- PRIOR AGREEMENT, ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS
- BETWEEN US.
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- REGISTRATION
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- If you have not purchased your copy directly from Lou's Software
- or an authorized Lou's Software distributor and you find AMORT
- useful, then send a check for $25.00 Canadian to:
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- Lou's Software Development
- 10-175 Elm Ridge Dr.
- Kitchener, Ontario N2N 1L7
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- We will send you a diskette that contains the latest version of
- the AMORT system and other utility programs that we know you
- will find very useful.
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- This is one of many experiments with the user supported
- concept. If you want low prices and good products, make sure the
- experiment works - send $25.00 and get your own copy of AMORT.
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- We cannot support people who have not purchased authorized copies
- of AMORT from Lou's Software or its distributors.
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- If you have a registered copy of AMORT, feel free to write to us
- with questions and comments. Your questions on how to modify
- AMORT will only be answered in a general way. If your diskette
- goes bad in the first 30 days, we will replace it free; after 30
- days we replace it for $10.
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- Site licensing is available from Lou's Software at reduced rates.
- If you plan to have a lot of AMORT users (more than fifty) at the
- same location, contact Lou's Software to arrange a site license.
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- Volume discounts are also available to users that purchase more
- than 10 copies of AMORT at the same time.
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- WHAT'S ON THE DISTRIBUTION DISK
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- The distribution diskette contains the following files:
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- Amort.exe
- Amort41.doc
- Read.me
- Pe.exe
- Periodic.doc
- Temp.prn
- Temp.wk1
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- AMORT diskettes received from Lou's Software, in addition to the
- above files, also contain various other utility programs which
- are provided to our customers FREE of charge.
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- Registered users will be notified of future updates, and
- future enhanced versions of the program will be available to
- registered users for the fee of $10.00.
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- STARTING THE PROGRAM
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- Before you begin you should always make a backup copy of the
- program diskette.
- (Refer to DOS manual to make backup)
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- After starting amort you will be greeted with a copyright and
- version number screen. To leave this screen just press "ENTER".
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- Followed will a brief discussion on shareware and the user fee
- for the registration of AMORT. After you read this screen just
- press enter to proceed with the program.
- Note: Registered users will not see this screen.
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- You have now entered AMORT. The menu is a simple bounce bar menu.
- You select a choice by entering the number for the function you
- want or by using your <UP> or <DOWN> arrow keys to move the
- selection bar to your choice and pressing the <ENTER> key.
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- 1 Enter Loan Information
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- From this option you will be greeted with a set of questions to
- help calculate your loan or mortgage. The first five question are
- simply the name and address of a potential customer you could be
- preparing a amortization report for. If you so wish, you may
- press the <ENTER> for each of those five questions if you are just
- preparing the amortization schedule for yourself.
- The first question pertaining to the amortization schedule is:
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- Enter loan amount?
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- This is a straight forward answer so just enter the amount of
- money you wish to borrow.
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- Enter interest period?
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- This question is to determine how often the financial
- establishment calculates the interest due on the loan or
- mortgage. Most loans are calculated monthly so you may enter "12"
- at this question. For most mortgages the interest is calculated
- twice a year so you should enter "2" for this question.
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- Enter interest in %?
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- All you need to do here is to enter the interest amount the
- financial establishment will be charging you. If the interest is
- 12% just enter "12" and not ".12".
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- How many years to repay?
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- Just enter the span of years you wish to take to pay the loan.
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- How many payments per year?
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- Just enter the amount of times you will be making payments on
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- your loan. If payments are monthly just enter a "12".
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- The screen will then display your monthly payments.
- From here you can edit the data you just entered or just keep on
- going with the data you just entered.
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- You will then be prompted for a file name. This saved file is
- only for use with the utility PERIODIC included in your package.
- Just enter an 8 character file name with no extension. The exten
- sion ".PRN" will be added to your file name.
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- 2 Print Amortization
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- This option will take you to another screen where you will be
- asked how many payments you will want to print and from which
- payment you want to start from.
- Note: Make sure your printer is turned on for this option.
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- 3 Calculate Amount of Loan
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- This option is for someone who may need to know what the original
- amount of a loan was if they only know the interest and the
- payments they are making on this loan. From this selection you
- will jump to another screen with a series of questions on the
- information needed to perform the calculation:
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- Enter payment amount?
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- Just enter the amount of the payments you are presently making on
- an existing loan.
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- Enter interest period?
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- This question is to determine how often the financial
- establishment calculates the interest due on the loan or
- mortgage. Most loans are calculated monthly so you may enter "12"
- at this question. For most mortgages the interest is calculated
- twice a year so you should enter "2" for this question.
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- Enter interest in %?
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- All you need to do here is to enter the interest amount the
- financial establishment is charging you. If the interest is 12%
- just enter "12" and not ".12".
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- How many years to repay?
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- Just enter the span of years the loan was setup for.
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- How many payments per year?
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- Just enter the amount of times you are making payments on your
- loan. If payments are monthly just enter a "12".
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- The screen will then display your original amount of the loan.
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- 4 Long Term Deposit
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- This option is for the calculation of long term investment of a
- one time deposit into an account or the purchase of G.I.C.'s or
- Certificate of Deposits. Just enter the information asked on the
- screen and the final amount at the end of the term of your
- investment will be displayed on the screen.
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- RRSP Prediction
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- This option is designed to calculate regular (equal) yearly
- deposits into an RRSP saving plan. Just follow the questions on
- the screen to enter the information and the final calculation
- will be displayed on the screen.
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- Exit to DOS
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- This will exit the program and return the user to the operating
- system.
- New Supplement
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- After calculating the amotization Amort now saves a file called
- TEMP.PRN. This file as 2 purpose.
- 1. It is used with the new utility called PERIODIC.
- 2. As a number import file for Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.0 or later.
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- Lotus 1-2-3 Import
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- A 1-2-3 Speadsheet is included with the package the purpose is
- for anyone who would like to play around with the amortization
- calculations to compare different periodic payment on its out
- come.
- You must first run 1-2-3 and make sure to set the directory in
- 1-2-3 to where the files (temp.wk1 and temp.prn resides).
- After running 1-2-3, load in the spreadsheet temp.wk1. Make sure
- the cursor is on cell A2. Enter the command:
- /FIN and then the file name.
- 1-2-3 will report an error, ignore the error by pressing Esc. the
- data from your amortization will now be calculated in the spread
- sheet. Feel free to enter any periodic payment in the proper
- column and watch the results. The periodic column is the only
- column you may enter data, since the rest of the cells are pro
- tected. You may save the file if you wish by giving the file a
- new name when saving with 1-2-3.
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- Note: See periodic.doc file for information on the new utility
- now included with AMORT 4.1
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- Lotus and 1-2-3 are registered trademarks of Lotus Development
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