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#T15,4,INTRODUCTION
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PREFACE
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THE FINANCIAL PLANNER is a set of programs that will help you
analyze, quickly and accurately, many of the options avail-
able to you to most effectively manage your finances.
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Some of the programs will help you find the least expensive way to finance
your purchases, and thus leave you a little more money to invest. Others
will help you find the best way to invest that money.
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And one - THE FINANCIAL PLANNER - may well be the most valuable program you
will ever own. This very comprehensive program begins with your present
financial position, and, operating on your best estimates of future income,
expenses, and economic factors, produces year-by-year projections of your
future financial conditions for up to 50 years.
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Once produced, your projections can be used to monitor your actual status, and
as you do so, your forecasting accuracy will increase. Actual status and that
improved forecasting ability can then be used to readily prepare increasingly
accurate plans and forecasts -- putting YOU in control of your future!
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When you first use the FINANCIAL PLANNER, you will note that some of the data
requested is quite accurately known --things like your salary, current assets,
earnings rates on those assets, bank balances, etcetera.
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Other requested data won't be so well known to you, and you will be required
to estimate it, as best you can --things like future salary increases, annual
inflation rates, future social security cost-of-living adjustments, year in
which you may sell a currently mortgaged home, and so forth.
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Because the program is so easy to use, and because the computer can make
millions of calculations in a very short time, you can easily and quickly
make many "what-if" analyses...
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- what if your future salary increases average 3% a year? what if they
are non-existent?
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- what if you sell your home 5 years earlier? or 5 years later?
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- what if inflation runs only 1% per year? what if it runs 5% per year?
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These are just a few of the many kinds of "what if" questions you might ask.
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THE FINANCIAL PLANNER cannot tell you which of your "what if"s will really
happen....
~C~I.... but it CAN tell you very quickly and accurately the impact any one
of them, or any combination of them, would have on your financial future.~N
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In fact, by running a number of "what if" cases, you can discover which of
the things you must estimate for the future have a relatively large effect,
and which have a relatively small effect in your particular circumstances.
You can then concentrate your efforts on ways to improve the accuracy of the
most important ones.
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This ability to "play around" can be used to sharpen your financial planning
accuracy far beyond what you might accomplish with any other method!
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PROGRAMS TO MINIMIZE YOUR COSTS
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LOANS MORTGAGE RE-FINANCING
∙ Personal Loans ∙ True Interest Rate (APR)
∙ Automobile Loans ∙ Net Monthly Payment Reduction
∙ Going "Upside Down"? ∙ Breakeven Point
∙ Time & Amount of Max Savings
INSTALLMENT CREDIT ∙ Total Savings (or Loss!)
∙ Markup Plans
∙ Carrying Charge Plans HOME SALE TAX CONSIDERATIONS
∙ Credit Card Purchases ∙ Over 55 One-time Exclusion
MORTGAGES LEASE/RENT/BUY DECISIONS
∙ Payments ∙ Which Way to Go?
∙ True Interest Rate
∙ No. of Payments
∙ Total Interest Cost
∙ Payment Schedules
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PROGRAMS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR SAVINGS
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INSTALLMENT SAVINGS 401(k) SAVINGS PLANS
∙ Value after X payments ∙ Value over a period of time
∙ Time to Accrue an Amount ∙ Effects of Taxes
∙ Compounding Intervals ∙ Early Withdrawal Penalties
∙ Alternative Investments
ANNUITIES
∙ Pymt from Specified Investment IRA ACCOUNTS
∙ Investment for Specified Pymt ∙ Value over a period of time
∙ Effects of Taxes & Inflation ∙ Effects of taxes
∙ Early Withdrawal Penalties
PERPETUITIES ∙ Alternative Investments
∙ Pymt from Specified Investment
∙ Investment for Specified Pymt
∙ Effects of Taxes & Inflation
∙ Total Interest Cost
∙ Payment Schedules
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THE FINANCIAL PLANNER'S FINANCIAL FORECASTING PROGRAM
This very comprehensive planning program evaluates all of the following:
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∙ Wages (Self & Spouse) ∙ Pension Income(s)
∙ Future Wages ∙ Social Security Income(s)
∙ Tax-Deferred Investments ∙ Mortgages
∙ Taxable Investments ∙ Federal Income Tax Brackets
∙ Checking & Savings Accounts ∙ Investment Earning Rates
∙ Lump-Sum Income ∙ Cost-of-Living Adjustments
∙ Lump-Sum Expenses ∙ Inflation
∙ Mortgages ∙ Retirement Ages
∙ Property Taxes ∙ Desired Retirement Income
Now that you know what programs are in the Financial Planner , the next
screen shows you how easy they are to use....
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#T15,4,GETTING STARTED
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~W~I~KTHE FINANCIAL PLANNER PROGRAMS ARE VERY EASY TO USE.~N~k
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Starting up: Insert the disk, type CALC (or PLAN), press the <Enter> key.
(Make sure your printer is on if you want printed output).
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Selecting a A list of the programs will appear. Use the cursor
Program.... (arrow) keys or the mouse to move the Highlight Bar
to the program of choice. Press the <Enter> key or
click the left mouse button to activate it.
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Running the A data input "window" will appear on screen. Use the
Program.... Up/Down arrow keys or the <Enter> key to move the cursor
between items. When you are satisfied with all the data
in the window, press the <ESC> key or click the left
mouse button on the upper left corner of the window box
to enter it all at once.
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Viewing (and The calculated program results will appear on screen.
Printing) the (You can make a print of any screen by pressing the
Results.... <Print Scrn> key at any time.
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