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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
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- ~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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Now that you know what programs are in the Financial Planner , the next
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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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