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- DESCRIPTION
-
- The program AM is a 'realistic' amortization schedule generator. It handles
- all the typical cases for a loan payment calculation program of this type:
-
- Takes loan amount and interest rate.
-
- Will compute payment amount (given length of loan) or use supplied
- value.
-
- Will print all or part of the resulting schedule (do you really need
- all 30 years printed?).
-
- Prints yearly sub-totals and final totals for everything.
-
- The 'realistic' part is what makes AM unique. These are the features that
- allow this program to do 'real' amortization schedules (ie, one where
- everything isn't just perfect):
-
- It prints all numbers right-justified with commas just as a
- professionally (done in COBOL?) created schedule would. This makes the
- resulting schedules look very nice, and be easy to read.
-
- It allows the first month to be defined as short or long (more or less
- days than normal) for the cases where the loan doesn't close on the
- first of the month, but payments will be due on the first.
-
- It allows extra, short, or missed payments to be defined for any month.
- This is necessary when running schedules on existing loans that have
- not been well behaved (see the file ./example for a complex example).
-
- It handles an ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage) where the interest rate
- changes over the life of the loan.
-
- REQUIREMENTS
-
- This program should compile and run on any unix-like system with a C compiler.
- It can use nroff(1) to format the output, and since nroff is used to format
- man pages most all unix-like systems should have this.
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- Copyright 1987, 1992, 1993 Brett K. Carver
- brett@sr.hp.com
-
- LICENSE
-
- The program AM is licensed for personal use only. It may not be sold. Any
- schedules generated by it may not be sold. I have not made any money on AM so
- it is not licensed to be used in any commercial way. The sources may be
- distributed as long as all credits and copyrights remain in place.
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- This software is presented as is, with no warranties expressed or implied,
- including implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall
- the authors, their institutions, or any subsequent distributors be liable for
- any special, direct, indirect or consequential damages whatsoever resulting
- from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence
- or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or
- performance of this software.
-