Monster Media 1994 #1/monster.zip/monster/FINANCE/LWMMONEY.ZIP/VBHOWTO.WWO

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                          FILE LIST.

 The following Files must be in the same directory:

 LWMD.EXE       -  Main Program.

 GETRICHD.WWO   -  How To Get Rich and Stay Rich Document.

 VBHOWTO.WWO    -  Instructions on how to use the programs.

 SAMPLE.WMS     -  Sample DataFile for Stocks.

 SAMPLE.WMN     -  Sample DataFile for Net Worth.

                          GENERAL INFORMATION.

 Details on any Program can be found listed below under the MENU name in
        which it resides and then by its place in that menu.

 Mouse: To use the Scroll Bar, try it right now, Click on the Top or
        Bottom Arrow to move one line.

        Click in the bar above or below the Slider and the text moves up
        one window, the Slider will move and shows position of the window
        in the Document.

        Click and hold on the Slider and drag it to any position in the
        Bar and on release of the Click Button the text corresponding
        to that position in the Document will be shown in the window.

        Click:
        On the menu buttons to activate the various programs.
        On the Down/Arrow beside Dropdown boxes to open them.
        On the Items in the Dropdown box to select them and they
        will be shown in the active area of the box, which is visible
        when the box is closed.

        Single Click on all buttons as some change their function and
        double clicking would activate both functions too quickly to see
        any result.

        DropDown boxes have pre-programmed figures in them. To use your
        own delete those in the active area by starting to enter your own.

 KeyBoard: Use ALT+ the highlighted letter on the button you wish to
        activate.

        The TAB key is a most important key as it moves the cursor
        from one area on screen to another.

        Use the TAB key to move forward through the menus and the input
        boxes and Shift+Tab to move backwards. When on selected menu or
        item press <ENTER> to activate.

        Use ALT+Down/Arrow to open and close the dropdown boxes.
        These are the input boxes with a Down/Arrow beside them.
        Use Up or Down Arrow to select items in a selection box.

        To Scroll through the Text and Help boxes, use the PgDn and
        PgUp or Up/Arrow and Down/Arrow keys or Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End
        keys. Always check to see if there is more information or data
        below what is shown in the window.

 Command Buttons:
        [OK] means yes, complete the procedure, such as add record to
        the file.

        [Cancel] means no, do not complete the procedure.

        [Help] Will bring up help text for that particular program.

        [Calculate] Will show the calculations for the current figures
        in the active area of the Dropdown boxes.

        [Exit] will quit that procedure or menu and go back to the
        previous menu.

        [To Printer] will send the data or text in that program to the
        Printer.

 Data Input Boxes: Have a yellow background. Boxes with a green background
        show the results of calculations.

 Table of Contents: The Text Display for 'How to Get Rich and Stay Rich'
        and 'How to Use Programs' have a table of contents. Select by
        typing the first letter of subject or by Double/Clicking on it,
        the section will then be shown.
        If you wish to find a word then use Word Search. Word found will
        be shown in top line of screen. Type a space before words such as
        'end' as these letters are contained in longer words and would be
        shown.

 Sample.WMS: This is a sample DataFile which shows how various entries
        are made in the Investment Management program.
        Date does not show meaningful Year as I do not know your Country
        setup which allows it to be entered either first or last.

 Sample.WMN: This is a sample DataFile which shows how various entries
        are made in the Net Worth Program.

 Help:  When using Help for guidance on how to input information, the
        examples, which show the different ways of entering data, will
        be lined up with the input boxes beside them if you use PgDn key.

 Numerical Data Entry: Where number only input is required the program
        will not accept letters or other characters from the keyboard,
        with the exception of the backspace and delete key to erase errors
        on that line and the Tab or <ENTER> key which completes the entry.

        When entering figures, do not include dollar($) or comma(,)
        signs, the only signs that can be used are the decimal point(.)
        and the minus(-) sign where appropriate.

 Date Input: Format will depend on the Country setup on your computer.
         Will be detected automatically and shown in Entry Help.

 Definitions:
        The name Fund/s is used throughout the Investment Management
        program and holds the Company name of the investment whether it
        is in Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds or any other form of investment.

        Income/Growth refers to income or dividends from an investment
        and/or capital gain from the annual increase in the value of the
        investment.

 All Menu buttons have names that clearly describe the function that they
        perform.

 Experiment, you can do no harm as the program has been made as user
        friendly and foolproof as possible. With lots of error messages if
        you go wrong.

 With the aid of the examples in Help that describe how to make entries in
        the input boxes you should have no problem in getting your data
        files set up.

                       LIFETIME WEALTH MANAGEMENT MENU.

 Planning your Savings: Has pre-programmed figures in the dropdown boxes,
        you should use your own to work out what your savings should be
        to give you the income you need on retirement in a given period.

        The above is based on one deposit per year. For those who save an
        amount monthly, quarterly or semi-annually use Year button.

        The accumulated total from deposits and interest can then become
        the Annual Amount Invested in your long term Savings by pressing
        Insert.

 Planning your Retirement:
        Percentage option: Use a withdrawal of income percentage less than
        the interest/growth percentage to allow for inflation.

        Example: Inflation has been running at an average of 5% over
        the past 20 years so if one is getting a return of 20% on
        Capital and taking out 15% then one is keeping up with
        inflation as the Capital and Income are both increasing by 5%
        each year.

        Fixed Amount option: Allows a fixed cash withdrawal at the end of
        each month. Annual effective Interest/Growth rate is converted to
        equivalent monthly rate with Current Value calculated each month.

        Table shows the totals at year end of the previous 12 monthly
        transactions. If you take out more each month than is generated by
        Income/Growth the table shows how many years Capital will last
        before being used up. If less is taken out the Capital would
        continue to grow forever so it stops at 50 years.

 How to Get Rich and Stay Rich: Shows how to save and where to invest for
        the greatest growth consistent with safety of capital.

 Savings Comparisons: Not as detailed as Planning your Savings but allows
       you to compare many different investment choices on screen together.

 Find Compound Growth: Compare growth of your different investments on an
        annual compound basis. Also use for WhatIf ? comparisons.

 Payment on a Loan: Uses various compounding periods, for Consumer loans,
        Car Payments, Credit Card payments and other loans. Can also be
        used for detailed monthly Mortgages payments, however, printing
        300 monthly payments takes a lot of time.
        Shown in groups of 12 months with accummulated totals. Printer is
        not visible and Help changes to Next. Pressing Next shows next
        group until the last one when Printer is visible and can now print
        all the Data.

 Investment Manager: Keeps records of all your investments and net worth.

 NetWorth: See Net Worth Menu below.

 Mortgage: Choose from Monthly, Bimonthly, Quarterly, SemiAnnual and Annual
        compounding periods by opening Compounding Period box.
        Monthly Compounding is used in the United States.
        Semi-Annual Compounding is used in Canada.
        Ask your mortgage lending institution which method they use.

 How to Use the Programs: This document.

 About.. : Details of Version and Author.

                          FUND MANAGEMENT MENU.

 Loading Files: Select the Drive and Directory. Only Files with the
        extension .WMS or .WMN will be shown in the File box, either
        click on the filename or type the filename with extension in the
        Textbox and click OK, file will be loaded.

 Display Data: Will show dialog box with all funds in the file. Selecting
        All Records will show details of all transactions in the file.
        Selecting a Fund will display all details, you can then select
        Current Value and enter the current price per share in the dialog
        box and Current Values will be shown.

        What is Book Value: A Positive figure in this column represents
        a cash outlay by you and a Negative figure cash received by you.
        Only results from Bought, Sold, Cash Dividend and Fee Cash will
        show here.

        Dividend Shares and Unit Fees will not show in this column as they
        are not a cash transaction but will be shown as an increase or
        decrease in the number of shares held.

        For instance if you bought 100 shares of a stock for $10.00 each
        and paid $50.00 commission, your book value for the transaction
        would be $1,050.00.

        If you then received a cash dividend of $100.00, the book value
        for the transaction would be -$100.00 and the Total book value
        would be $950.00.

        If you now sold the total 100 shares for $20.00 each, your
        book value for the transaction would be -$2,000.00. and your
        Total book value would read -$1,050.00.

        In Total book value a Positive figure represents a cost to you
        in cash while a Minus figure represents cash taken out by you.
        (Your Profit).

 Compute Current Values: Shows all funds in the file with an input box
        beside each into which you type the current price per share. When
        finished all fund names are displayed with the percentage of each
        in ( ), of the total current value, with all other details.

       You can now select Graph to show the Fund Profit Indicator:

       Which is scaled to the fund with the greatest profit percentage, all
       other fund profits are shown based on this scale.
       Unfortunately as the bars consist of 16 blocks, or a block per line,
       profits for other funds will not be accurately shown because with
       DOS we cannot show part of a block. However it does give a good
       indication of profit trends.

       Use the Scroll Bar or DnArrow to show all the Fund names, these
       will line up directly below their bar on the chart.

 Add and Edit Records: See Add and Edit Records, Add Funds Menu.

 Saving Files: Select the Drive and Directory. Files with the extension
        .WMS or .WMN will be shown in the File box, double click on the
        filename under which you wish to save the file and then OK.

        If you want to save under a different filename make sure you clear
        the Textbox first and then type the new filename with the
        appropriate extension in the Textbox and click OK.

        If you forgot the name of the file in memory, check in the
        Information box and it will be shown there.

        Remember that saving a file using a Filename already on your
        disk will overwrite the one on disk with the new data.

        Always make a backup copy of important files to another
        Drive/Dir so that if the original is lost by inadvertently
        overwriting it, you have your backup to retrieve the files.

 Sort Records: Sorts on the Date. Must be in the form of the Country
       setup in your computer, with no trailing blanks.

 NetWorth: See Net Worth Menu.

                 ADD, DELETE OR CORRECT RECORDS, ADD FUNDS MENU.

 To set up a DataFile for Stocks:

        First select, from Entry Help, the transaction type as a guide.
        Pg/Dn to get to it. Entries must be as shown in sample or they
        will not be accepted by the error checker. The entry form is
        common to all transactions and depending on the transaction type
        code only the required input boxes will be shown and must be
        filled in.
        (Every possible type of transaction is covered by the six codes).

        Press Create Fund. Type New Fund Name then OK.
        A Blank Record will be shown. Type in your data.
        Press Save Record. Your new fund and record will be saved.

        Note that the Add Record button changes to Save Record after
        creating a blank record.

        To add a record to an existing Fund. Select the Name of Fund
        in the text box, press Add Record, a blank record will be
        shown, type in data and press Save Record

        A Fund with no records will naturally show nothing in the input
        boxes. This is not a blank record and if you type data in it and
        try to save it with Correct Record it will not be saved as it
        does not exist in memory. Start over by pressing Add Record.

 Next Record, Previous Record:
        To scroll through the records. Select the Fund name and then
        press Next Record or Previous Record to see all records in that
        Fund. If there are a large number of records hold down <Enter>
        after selecting Next Record or Previous Record.

 Correct: All Input Boxes will be shown at this point. Make corrections to
        the current record shown and press Correct Record and the changes
        will be saved. Changes made in the Fund Name will apply to all
        records with the previous name.

        Illogical entries will not be accepted, such as trying to change
        a record code from Bought to Cash Dividend unless data is deleted
        first or entering figures in the Cash Dividend input box in a
        Sold Record.

 Delete: Will erase the current record from the file. When all records are
        deleted, pressing Delete will then delete the Fund Name.

        Warning: Changes to Funds or Records exist only in memory at
        this point and will be lost when you exit the program. You must
        save the File to disk to have a permanent file which can be
        loaded when required.

        The extension .WMS must be used with Investment DataFiles.

                             NET WORTH MENU.

 To set up DataFile for Net Worth Statement:

        Select Edit Assets: TAB key must be used to move from line to line.

        Enter the names of your categories in sequence.

        If you want sub totals for each group, type the exact words
        Sub Total, with no value, as a category at the end the group
        and the sub totals will be automatically calculated and shown
        on the Net Worth Statement.

        Type the values beside the category names.

        Press OK to save changes.

        Insert Blank Line. Allows you to insert a line anywhere in the
        list where you may have forgotten a category. Use only after
        saving changes and before adding another category.

        To delete a line. Erase the text and press OK and it will be
        deleted as no blank lines are allowed in the list when saved.

        Repeat the above using Edit Liabilities.

        Category names can be changed and values updated at any time.

        To have Header names for groups just type the name in the
        name category with no value.

        Although the layout of Net Worth is flexible it is best to plan
        your layout to suit your needs before making entries. After each
        entry press OK to see how it appears in the Net Worth Statement.

 Edit Assets: Add or change Category names or Values.

 Edit Liabilities: Add or change Category names or Values.

 Save File: Will save the current file in memory to disk.

 Load File: Will load the specified file into memory.

 The extension .WMN must be used for Net Worth DataFiles.

 Your Net Worth Statement should be updated at least once a year and
 compared with the previous year's Net Worth. Save them under part of
 the year's date, as in NetDec92.WMN etc.

 See 'How to get Rich and Stay Rich' for practical examples of how to
 use the programs in building your wealth.




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