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AB-06: Other Financial Programs
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0573 Financial Analysis Small Programs Disk
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APR Calculator (APRCALC)
Fishback, Peter L.
$10
calculates APRs for all monthly payment loans other than combination
construction/permanent loans. The program has special tests and calculations
related to first/last payments and Regulation Z APR and Truth-In-Lending
disclosures.
DEPR
Peterson, Don
$20
will compute, store and print depreciation schedules. It will organize the
items either by account classification for bookkeeping purposes or by asset
lives for income tax reporting. Methods offered are Straight-Line, mid-month or
mid-year; Declining Balance at rates of 125% to 200%; ACRS for 3, 5, 10, 15, 18
or 19 year; and Luxury Vehicle depreciation and limitation tables. The program
was written by an accountant who has used it in his practice for two years.
KeyRatio 1.0 (KR)
Carnegie, Thomas J.
$10
will calculate the ten most common key business ratios. The calculations are
simple enough to do on any calculator (eg: Current Ratio is Current Assets
divided by Current Liabilities). The primary benefit of this program is that it
presents each of the ratios and provides some information explaining the
significance of each one.
Finan
is a program mostly converted from a program that runs on an HP-41C
calculator.
Finance1 (FINANC1)
Thompson, Karl
$25
performs a large number of different financial calculations, including future
value, present value, NPV, several types of depreciation, break-even analysis,
economic ordering point, and more.
Finance2 (FINANC2)
Thompson, Karl
$?
performs the following calculations: monthly payment, balloon payment,
affordable house price, rental property analysis, mortgage with second,
accelerated loan payments and more.
Finance3 (FINANC3)
Cox, Thomas
$5
emulates an HP financial calculator.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0573
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4528 Financial Analysis #2 Small Programs Disk
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NOTE: Programs with a filename extension of .BAS require BASICA or GWBASIC.
If one of these BASIC interpreters did not come with your computer, GWBASIC
can be purchased at most computer stores.
Analysis.BAS
is an asset evaluation program.
BreakEven 1.03 (BE)
Carnegie, Thomas J.
$15
is a fairly simple break-even analysis program for small businesses. BE will
calculate the break-even point based on revenues or number of units. It will
also display a table with a range of revenues or unit sales and resulting
profits. It does not allow complex models. It will save to disk in a format
which can be imported into 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet programs.
Budgetrk.BAS 3.2 (BUDGETR)
Botting, Don
$?
keeps track of budgeted disbursements. The program will track an infinite
number of files grouped under any one of 30 Projects and will handle sums
totaling $99,999,999 for each File or Project.
Finanaly (FINANAL)
calculates a set of 8 financial analysis ratios based on companies'
financial statement data.
FinCalc 1.09 (FINCALC) 01-94 CD
Insight Software Solutions ASP
$6
is a 6k pop-up financial calculator. In addition to a basic four-function
calculator mode, it will solve present value, future value, loan analysis, and
more.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4528
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4D Business Calculator
Soft-Dil
$20
#7104/2411
is a business calculator. This calculator features Internal Rate of Return,
Profit Index, Net Present Value, Annuities and other cash flow calculations, pop
up windows, keyboard type interface with a special CapsLock Toggle, up to 18
memory files with 99 memory locations each, color selection for all major
programing functions, on-line help with a special search feature, various number
formats for display, and much more.
Amort 1.14
Micro Data Assist
$25
#7104/2035
calculates and prints loan amortization schedules. This is designed for
making printouts for professional users, such as bankers, real estate
agents and accountants. Features include the ability to list a display a
selected range of loan payments, record additional payments on prin-
cipal, modification of the loan payment amount to be made, the ability
to start additional payments on a specific loan payment, a buyer
signature acceptance agreement, printed payment coupons, biweekly loan
conversion, and much more. Requires 512K.
Kupfer Business Programs
Kupfer, Robert E.
$6-$20
#7104/2513 [2 disks]
is a set of mostly financial analysis programs for businesses.
Business Analysis is a collection of 16 financial and statistical business
functions. Some of the topics covered include, accounting, asset management,
labor, inventory, and stock holders.
Recovery Cost Comparison helps you make purchase decisions. It determines the
most cost-effective purchase among a group of products.
Business Financial Analysis produces a combination Income and Cash flow
analysis projection for a company for a five year period.
Budget Analysis will give you a summary or complete printout of your income
and expenses. It recognizes any surplus or deficit, and calculates the
relational percentage to your income as compared to an established norm.
Dealership Sales Analysis is a complete automobile sales analysis program. It
keeps track of clients and inventory information and prints complete sales
transaction and loan analysis for multiple loan periods.
Depreciation will calculate depreciation on assets using double declining
balance, sum of the year's digits, or straight line.
Biorhythm is a complete biorhythm analysis for any year, past, present, or
future. It can be sent to the screen or the printer.
AmortizeIt 1.1s
Pine Grove Software ASP
$55
#7104/2916
is a comprehensive amortization program. It has a fill in the blank interface
and detailed help screens to make it easy to use. It also features payments in
arrears; payment in advance; eight payment and compounding periods; normal,
rules-of-78, US rule, fixed principal (declining payment), interest only
amortization methods; accrued interest (negative amortization); random extra
payments and accelerated regular extra payments; skipped payments and short
payments; adjustable interest rate (ARM's); display tables by fiscal, calendar
or loan year; loan calculator; amortization table; balloon payment; interest
due; calendar math and more.
Also included is BondCalc, which shows calculations for up to three bonds at
once and which lets you factor in inflation and taxes when calculating the
future value of a bond. BondCalc also supports zero coupon bonds. Printing is
also supported.
Budgetrak Accounting System
Software Associates Laboratories
$?
#7419/515 [2 disks]
helps departments of large companies keep track of their budgets rather than
having to rely on the general ledger system of the accounting and data
processing departments.
You can make encumbrances to credit accounts; you are allowed to change the
fiscal year beginning and ending monthly boundaries; and beginning and ending
balances, plan and variance from plan are shown as each entry is made.
ST-Budget 1.9 [ST_BUDGT]
SoftTalk Computing Inc.
$99
#7419/3720 [2 disks] (02-94 CD)
is a budgeting and tracking system for corporations and individuals. It offers
numerous distribution methods. It tracks daily transactions and allows you to
view up-to-date budget vs actual summaries on screen.
Corporations can track department budgets and individuals can track home budget,
consulting business, rental properties and other entities. You can then compare
the consolidated budget vs actual. Requires 640K, DOS 3.1+, and a hard disk.
CISS
Nakakihara, Douglas J.
$50
#1955
is a mini-general ledger used to facilitate the preparation of corporate tax
returns. CISS allows you to categorize and organize your profit and loss
statement in a format that can be used to prepare a corporate tax return. It
also allows you to make adjusting and Schedule M-1 entries. Requires 512k RAM
and DOS 3+.
DAYO Programs
TJS Lab ASP
[02-94 CD]
A large set of disks make up a system called DAYO. We will briefly describe
each of the programs in this set. The registration fee is shown for each, and
the shareware disks are available individually from PsL. Most (if not all) of
the programs can be used in a multi-user mode on a network. These are
powerful, feature-filled programs. For example, the Point of Sale program
supports cash registers that plug into a serial port. While the programs are
well documented and fairly intuitive, the sheer number of features takes these
out of the realm of pick-it-up-and-run software. All DAYO programs require 640k,
DOS 3.3+, and a hard disk. (These programs are available on our low-cost
MegaDisk sets, as indicated by the 7000-series numbers. All disks with the
same 7000-series number, such as 7008, are part of a set available for $6.99.)
DAYO Accounts Payable [DAYOAP] ($25 #7008/2468 [2 disks]) is a
complete accounts payable program. It will print checks (manual or
recurring) and many different reports, including 1099 forms. (02-94 CD)
DAYO Accounts Receivable ($25, #7008/2323 [2 disks]) handles statements,
customers, cash receipts, terms, invoice types, tax codes, sales persons, and
more. Many reports can be printed.
DAYO Inventory ($25, #7008/2320) is a multiuser inventory control, purchasing,
and vendor maintenance application. Use it to create and maintain an inventory
of any product. It includes such features as reports, labels, lists, and a
graph.
DAYO Price Book ($25, #7009/2317) is a system of creating and maintaining
specialized pricing for customer or clients. Special pricing includes Fixed,
Margin, and List Discounts. Price books, catalogs, mailing labels and reports
can be printed.
DAYO POS (Point of Sale) ($25, #7009/2321) is a billing and invoicing
application for any size business. It will allow almost unlimited numbers of
users to have the ability to invoice simultaneously using this one program
while on a PC based LAN/Network. Some of the program highlights include
registers, quote interface (to DAYO Quotes), templates, back orders, data
entry validation, cash drawers (serial port connections), databases are dBase
compatible, HP Laser special invoices, preprinted invoices, standard invoices,
packing/shipping lists, customer ship to/mailing address labels, sales graphs,
special customer pricing (interfaces with DAYO Price Book), 34 configuration
setting, sales tax codes, terms codes, invoice type codes, shippers/method of
shipment codes, credit limits, passwords (with DAYO Passwords), and reports.
DAYO Quotes ($25, #7009/2318) is a system of creating sales order quotes based
on the DAYO Inventory, Customer, and other DAYO databases. Highlights of this
program include templates, multiuser, dBase compatible, HP Laser special
quotes, preprinted quotes forms support, standard quotes forms, customer bill
to/mailing address labels, special customer pricing (With DAYO Price Book),
configuration settings which include sales tax codes, terms codes, invoice
type codes, shippers/method of shipment codes, passwords (with DAYO
Passwords), and reports. Quotes can can be printed on a standard printer or a
Hewlett Packard Laserjet compatible printer.
DAYO Index ($25, #7010/2319) reindex any of the DAYO database.
DAYO End of Period/Purge ($25 #7010/2466) is an optional DAYO Business
Application that can be run at the end of a business period (eg: month) to
clean out deleted/closed invoice, backorder, purchasing, receiving, and
register records and to generate over 20 different reports.
DAYO BackOrder ($25, #7010/2322) is the maintenance module for customers/sales
backorders.
DAYO Passwords ($25, #7010/2316) is a file security system for restricting
access to the various DAYO programs.
DAYO Update ($5 #7010/2469) is for users that are currently using DAYO and
wish to install a new version of the software. This program is not required
for updating, but it simplifies the process.
DAYO General Ledger ($25 #7092/2609) is a double-entry general ledger.
Features include multiuser capability, 20+ reports, budgeting, unlimited
accounts and the ability to export data.
DAYO Look Up ($25 #7092/2610) lets you view data from any DAYO database or
dBASE compatible database.
DAYO Materials Requirement Planning ($25 #7092/2602) lets manufacturers
account for building End Items from other items in the inventory database. It
supports multilevel Bill of Materials. It also includes automatic inventory
posting and creation of inventory adjustment records, dBASE compatible
databases, multiuser, and many reports.
DAYO Menu, Clock, Setup ($5 each #7092/2611) are utilities for the Dayo
programs.
DAYO Time & Billing ($50 #7330/2771 [2 disks]) creates invoices for services
and products. It provides support for inventory, receivables,
projects/jobs/cases, customers/clients, over 30 reports, on-screen viewing of
reports, dBASE compatible, laser formats for invoices and statements, two
styles of statements\bills, printer setup and drivers, cash drawers, and over
46 configurable options.
DAYO Bar Code ($25 #7330/2858) prints 3 of 9 bar codes on a dot matrix
printer. It can be integrated with the DAYO Inventory and the DAYO Customer
databases or as a stand-alone application.
DAYO Payroll ($25 #7330/2917) is a payroll and personnel management system for
businesses of any size. Features include multi-user capability, unlimited
employees, weekly, biweekly, or monthly payrolls, quarterly, year to date, and
current summary databases, dBase compatible databases, vacation and sick day
tracking, check printing, standard or fixed state tax, standard or fixed
federal tax, SDI tax, overtime and premium hourly wages, up to eight
deductions, exempt/non-exempt deductions, the ability to print reports or dump
them to files for later printing or viewing. (Reports cannot be viewed on
screen without saving to disk first.)
You can easily edit tax rates whenever the government changes them. (Some
other programs make you get a program update from the author when rates
change.) Requires 640K, DOS 3.3 or above, and a hard disk. We find the means
of entering payroll hours to be cumbersome, but the availability of default
weekly hours helps a lot.
DAYO Smart Reports ($25 #7471/2467 [2 disks]) generates a variety of reports:
Single Warehouse, Inventory Zero Price, Valuation Expanded, Inventory Zero
Retail, ReOrder (2, 4 or 8 weeks), Negative Onhand, Margin (History, 12
Weeks), StockLevel Over/Shortage, Vendor List, Customer List, Inventory ASCII
Text, Inventory Item List, Late PO, Checking Account List, PO - Due In This
Week, Check Format List, Inventory Zero Cost, and Expenses List.
DAYO GUI POS ($125 #7471/4063) is a Point of Sale program with a Graphical
User Interface. Requires 640K, hard disk, and VGA.
Dayo - Brain ($50 #7530/3195) is a job scheduler and menu that allows
you to run any program or batch file anytime; manually or according to a
schedule. The program can be scheduled to run jobs daily at a specific
time, or every so many minutes, or to run the jobs once, at a specific
date and time. The BRAIN can also act as a Menuing system, allowing you
to select then run the job/program. Other features include: Multi-user,
schedule report to printer or file, dBase compatible schedule database,
PC Paintbrush or Microsoft Paintbrush (.PCX) screens and 'windows',
passwords (4 digit code), keyboard locking, usage graph, disk status,
variable speeds for the schedule, and more. The program requires 640K,
EGA/VGA and a mouse.
DAYO Installation ($? #7530/3418) facilitates the initial installation of the
DAYO system.
DAYO Order Entry ($25 #7530/3419) will create sales orders based on the DAYO
Inventory, customer, and other databases from DAYO. Orders can be printed on a
pre-printed form, on the Laser printer in a special laser format, or standard
form. Other features include Multiuser, dBase compatible databases, customer
bill to/mailing address labels, special customer pricing with the DAYO Price
Book, discount off list, sales tax codes, terms codes, invoice type codes,
shippers/method of shipment codes, passwords and reports.
DAYO Little POS ($25 #7530/3420) is a smaller version of DAYO Point Of Sale
that does not contain any other options other than the invoicing routines.
This is useful on LANs where memory is limited. It must be run in conjunction
with DAYO Point Of Sale.
DAYO Simple POS ($25 #7529/3421) is a point of sale program for businesses
where only a simple receipt is needed and no terms are given. It does not
maintain a customer database.
DAYO Rental POS ($35 #7529/3422) is a Billing and Invoicing program similar to
DAYO Little POS for companies that rent items, equipment, or services.
Requires (AB-06: #7010/2322) DAYO Point Of Sale.
DAYO Return Management System ($45 #7529/3423) keeps track of all items
returned and/or out to vendors. It allows a voucher to be printed that is
similar to an invoice.
DAYO Shipping Log ($25 #7529/3424) records all invoices/goods shipped from
your place of business. It records invoice header and detail information. It
prints labels and many reports.
DAYO Job Costing ($95 #7518/3717) tracks all costs related to a job, project,
task, or work order. Features include multi-user support, work orders, data
entry validation, dBase compatible databases, passwords, labor reports,
multiple printer ports, overhead factor, tax work orders, class code types,
working class codes, multiple work order formats, visual indexing, automatic
daily indexing, record of labor, travelers, item issue, work order master
summary (which is the cost of the job), and more.
DAYO Returns & Refunds ($25 #7518/3425) allows the return and/or refund of a
product into inventory. It produces negative invoices for the customer and
company accounting. Invoices, after being posted into Accounts Receivable,
become credit memos.
DAYO Billing & Invoicing ($75 #7518/3426) is similar to DAYO Point Of Sale,
but emphasizes a Billing and Invoicing approach instead of a Point of Sale
approach. Requires 640K, DOS 3.3 or above and a hard disk.
DAYO Membership ($95 #7518/3427) will track membership for an association or
organization. It maintains records for donations, dues, payments and/or
invoices. It optionally maintains a simple accounting system for dues and/or
donations. Many reports and reporting routines are included.
DAYO Sales Management System ($194-$300 #7784/4464 [2]) creates price books
and sales order quotes; keeps track of contacts and calendar events; and
prints special reports, lists and labels.
DTS Lease vs. Buy Analyzer
Denver Tax Software, Inc.
$33
#4465
is a lease-vs-buy analysis program. It analyzes cash flow over the life of the
lease under both lease and buy conditions. It has auto-depreciation limits,
lease-inclusion amounts, and cashflow and present value analysis reports.
Easy Compute W4 1992
R.B. Bartlett Accounting Service
$40
#4230
assists employees with filling out W-4's. It lets the user see what withholding
amounts would be with various numbers of exemptions. More importantly, it
replaces the cryptic IRS forms with an easy-to-use program.
Ez Depreciation
Millrose Enterprises
$53-$253
#4720
keeps track of fixed assets and calculates depreciation in accordance with ACRS,
MACRS, non-recovery property, personal and real property, listed property, non
depreciable property, luxury autos, short years, mid-year and mid-quarter
conventions. It prints a worksheet for Federal Form 4562 and many other reports.
Federal state, book, AMT and ACE calculations are provided. It will also
accommodate multiple companies.
Interest Analyzer 2.29 [INT229] (11-93 CD)
Insight Software Solutions ASP
$25
#4527
calculates interest earnings, loan payments, and amortization and depreciation
schedules. Data can be saved to disk and recalled. Variables include loan
prepayments, tax effects, compounding methods, depreciation methods and more.
Output can be viewed on-screen in a large scrolling window or printed.
Requires 384k RAM.
Banker's Tools
Hunphfus, Barry
$?
#7105/681
is a series of programs designed by a banker, Barry Humphfus, for banks with the
need to perform such tasks as Loan Pricing, Loan Risk Assessment and Bankruptcy
Prediction.
Richard Haney, College Station, TX, reports BUG: Programming error in RATE
program. Suggestion: Correct typos in program to "improve perception of
professionalism." Comment: "The concept behind the program's pricing scheme
and bankruptcy prediction models is excellent - well grounded in theory.
Loan Master-Loan Accounting System 1.52 [LM152] (11-93 CD)
Bottom Line Software
$150
#7105/1859
is a loan management program for lenders. You can record new or existing
loans, post payments, interest, principal, late charges, etc. You can print
trial balances, past-due reports and notices, loan statements, and FYE
interest statements. You can look up a loan by borrower's name, loan number,
or customer number. We were surprised that the program doesn't do any type of
loan calculations, nevertheless, it appears to be useful for record keeping.
Loan Trak
Banquette Software
$39
#7105/2666
will track loan principal and interest accruals, payments, legal and other
costs, charges, or credits. The program is most useful in maintaining and
reporting non-accrual accounts and/or charged off accounts. Payoff amounts are
always available, as are accrued interest and legal/costs due, interest paid
year-to-date and life, and legal/costs paid for life. End-of-period processing
will automatically accrue interest to date (360 or 365 day basis) on all loan
records in your file. Reports include Loan Transactions (history), Loan Trial
balance, and a trial balance sorted by attorney(s) handling the case. Requires
512k and two 360k drives or equivalent.
NoteSmith
Princeton Investments, Inc.
$75-$99
#7105/3718
helps keep track of notes, mortgages, discounted paper and other periodic
payment streams that you receive or pay. Several sample files are included, and
on-line help is available. This is a program that was previously sold
commercially to mortgage investors. 500K+ of disk space is required.
Payment Book Writer
Pfannenschmid, Harold F. ASP
$20
#7105/3284
prints payment coupon books for lending institutions or for personal lenders.
The lender's letterhead is printed at the top of each page and the return
address will show through a standard window envelope. Payment number and due
date are automatically incremented. The regular and final payments are printed
on each page. Late charge and disclosure lines are also available.
LoanPlus
Advanced Performance, Inc.
$105
#4404
allows you to organize and monitor loan processing and payments. Reports include
Amortization Schedule, End of Year Statement, Late Customers List, Late Payment
notices, Chronological Loan Collection report, Payment Invoices and Receipts, US
IRS 1098s.
Five types of loans can be processed: Simple Interest - Monthly Interest
Calculations, Simple Interest - Daily Interest Calculations, Interest only
with Balloon Payment, Rule of 78, and Partial Amortization with Balloon
payment. Under- and over-payments can be entered and late charges are
automatically calculated. The program is menu driven and easy to use and
should be quite useful to anyone needing to keep up with loans of any type.
Peggy Krause, Corvallis, OR: The program starts to load then displays garbage
across my screen and dumps me back to the DOS prompt.
PsL: We tried this program on four different machines. On two that were running
DOS 5, it worked fine. On two running earlier versions of DOS, it bombed. Our
conclusion is that DOS 5 is required, although the documentation does not
mention this.
Fixed Asset Manager
The Micro Group
$99
#7295/2689 [2 disks]
will track capital goods, fixed assets, supply and spare parts, warranties, and
maintenance contracts. It handles purchased or leased equipment and it tracks by
budget and department codes. It handles a number of user-definable depreciation
methods including straight line, double declining balance, sum of years digits,
ACRS, and MACRS. It makes inventory labels and contains 80 different reports
including complete audit trails. Hard disk and 640k RAM required. The author
can no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.
Asset Management System
Automated Processing Company
$50
#7295/3282 [2 disks]
keeps track of everything you own, where it is located, who owns it, what it
originally cost and many other features. It provides a method to keep track of
your audios and videos. It can also be easily updated to reflect inflation or
depreciation. Requires 640K, DOS 3+.
Job Cost 1.16 [JBCST11]
Micro Data Assist
$45
#1371 [March 1994 CD]
is a powerful job cost monitoring system. With this program you can set up
multiple jobs each with its own set of cost centers; establish budget controls
for each cost center for labor, material, and other expenses; edit and post
transaction cost items to each cost center; and post estimates of percent
completions for each budget item. You can also setup budgets for up to 99
change orders per job.
The program will then provide you with cost variances, projected profit and
loss at the detail budget level, cost center level, and total job. As expenses
are posted the overall job status is updated keeping you informed of balance
of funds available and projected profit/loss for the jobs original estimate
and change orders. You are provided reports that will capture this information
for distribution to your client, foreman and sub-contractors. At the end of
the job, after all reporting has been performed, you can backup the completed
job to a disk for storage, delete the job from your active job database and if
necessary restore the job from backup for recording additional cost
information after the job is completed.
Other features include the "expense recap" report which can be limited to
cover those expenses between a given set of dates. This report can be used for
entry directly into your G/L accounting system. The "cost center" maintenance
screen has the new sub-menu function of "view". A report "summary of all jobs"
allows you to view all jobs currently on file.
Finance 101 2.1
Clint Corporation
$39
#7519/2688
is an extensive financial analysis program. Calculations include lease/make
versus buy analysis, internal rate of return, break-even analysis, true value of
a lease, insurance analysis, depreciation analysis and more.
We were, at first, very excited about all the options in this program, but we
were a somewhat disappointed in the actual running of the program. The user
interface is a little rough (you cannot correct a previous input line without
completely starting over), and in a home lease-vs-buy analysis in which we
tried to compare leasing a home for five years versus buying it and financing
it and then selling it in five years, it gave us a realistic number for "Net
advantage of Lease" and correctly concluded that "leasing is more attractive
than buying" based on the data we entered, but these results were marred by a
note that "Value of lease = $82,911.02", which makes no sense, and for which
no explanation was offered.
Pelton's Financial Utilities
Pelton Computer Consultants ASP
$48
#7519/3428 [2 disks]
helps solve and document many types of financial time-value-of-money
problems found in everyday business. It can assist with problems like
distributions (withdrawals) from an interest-bearing sum; money growth by
interest only or with deposits; IRA's with initial, monthly and yearly
deposits; and many types of simple or complex loans and loan comparisons.
Requires 512K and a hard disk.
Realeasy Property Analysis 3.0
Computer Specialties
$52
#4669
is a 1-2-3 spreadsheet that provides a comprehensive 20-year analysis of
either a single- or multiple-unit investment property. It includes every facet
of the investment, including rising utility and maintenance costs, cash flows,
square foot analysis, net present values, and internal rate of return on the
investment. It will address up to four mortgages of varying terms and interest
rates.
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