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- #T15,4,COMPARATIVE INTEREST RATES
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- From time to time you may be fortunate enough to have money available to
- invest. You may have a choice to invest these funds in an IRA account or a
- regular account. And you will find that banks and savings associations offer
- a wide variety of rates and terms.
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- Where should you invest your money? In an IRA or in a regular account? And
- is Bank "A"s 10% compounded semiannually better or worse than the 9-5/8%
- compounded daily offered by Bank "B"? By how much? And what effect does
- income tax have on the relative desirability of one investment as compared
- to another?
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- The Interest Comparison program in THE FINANCIAL PLANNER assists you in com-
- paring any two bank, money market, certificate of deposit (CD), or savings
- accounts.
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- THE INTEREST COMPARISON PROGRAM
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- The Interest Comparison program (1) calculates the TRUE annual % rate for
- each account; (2) takes into account the effect of income taxes; and (3) it
- calculates what the year-end balances would be in each alternate account.
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- It makes these calculations for each alternate account on three bases:
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- ~C~I1. as if earnings were tax-free (as, for example, a municipal bond fund).
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- 2. as if earnings were taxed in the current year (ordinary CD or bank acct.)
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- 3. as if earnings were not taxed until withdrawal (an IRA account).~N
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- And you can choose either of two reports:
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- ~C~I 1. Short Summary - reports account balances at end of full term only.
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- 2. Full Report - reports account balances at the end of all term years.~N
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- NOTE: The IRA analysis assumes you will be 59.5+ when you withdraw your funds.
- If this will not be so, then you must subtract 10% of the amount in the
- report column titled "Before Taxes" from the amount in the column titled
- "IRA after Tax" (for the same year).
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