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- @INTRODUCTION
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- FINANCE ANALYZER
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- ANALYSES AND CALCULATIONS
- This program enables one to perform calculations on
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- 1. Loans
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- 2. Time Deposits
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- 3. Annuities
- and
- 4. Interest Rates
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- REPORTS
- One may also elect to print reports such as
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- 1. Loan Amortization Schedules
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- 2. Time Deposit Tables
- and
- 3. Annuity Schedules
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- WHAT IF ???
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- Finance Analyzer is especially suited for "What If" Analyses
- with regard to finanacial planning.
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-
- Some Examples
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- 1. My daughter is 10 years old and will be going to college in
- 8 years. How much should I deposit in my savings account every
- month so that (with accumulated interest) I will have saved
- $30,000 by the time she is 18 and ready for college.
-
- 2. I am considering buying one of two computers. Both are equivalent
- in power and I estimate their useful life to be about 6 years.
- However, the first computer has a monthly maintenance fee $150
- less than the second but the purchase price of the second is
- $12,000 less than the first. Which is the better buy?
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- 3. I am selling my old home and buying a new one. I am giving the
- buyer of my old home a second mortgage for $8,000 at 10% APR.
- I need to know how much I can expect in monthly payments from the
- second mortgage and I need a loan amortization schedule.
- @LOAN
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- LOANS
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- Loans are determined by four factors.
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- 1. The Amount Borrowed (or starting balance)
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- 2. The Periodic Payment Amount (usually a monthly payment)
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- 3. The Number of Payments
- and
- 4. The Interest Rate
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- FINANCE ANALYZER allows one to compute any one of the above by
- giving values for the remaining three. You also have the option
- of printing a loan amortization schedule once all four factors
- have been determined.
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- @LOAN PAYMENT
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- LOAN PAYMENT
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- Enter the payment made for each loan period. Normally a loan
- period is one month but FINANCE ANALYZER allows any period from one day
- to one year.
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- @LOAN PRINCIPAL
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- LOAN PRINCIPAL
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- Enter the amount to be borrowed. For each payment made on this amount
- the amount due to interest will be be subtracted from the payment and the
- balance will be used to reduce the principal.
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- @A.P.R.
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- A. P. R. (Annual Percentage Rate)
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- This is the interest rate as specified on a yearly basis. It is
- computed by multiplying the interest rate per period by the number of
- periods per year. (See also the HELP screen on INTEREST RATE.)
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- @ANNUITY
- ANNUITIES
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- FINANCE ANALYZER computes two types of annuities. In the first,
- a deposit annuity, a fixed amount is deposited each month and the final
- amount (as determined by the monthly deposits and interest rate, compounded
- monthly) is computed.
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- In the second type of annuity, a withdrawal annuity, an initial
- balance is deposited in an account and accumulates interest compounded
- monthly. A fixed amount is withdrawn each month. The number of months
- required to deplete the account is computed.
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- The factors involved in annuity computations are the following:
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- 1. The Initial Balance (or Present Value).
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- 2. The Payment Per Month.
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- 3. The Ending Balance.
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- 4. The Number of Payments.
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- The user may request that an annuity schedule be created.
- @ANNUITY PRESENT VALUE
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- STARTING BALANCE OR PRESENT VALUE
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- For a deposit annuity this amount represents the amount of money which,
- if deposited at the time the deposit annuity began and allowed to accumulate
- interest, would have an ending balance equal to the ending balance of the
- annuity. This represents the "value" of the annuity in "today's" dollars.
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- For a withdrawal annuity this amount is the minimum amount of money
- which, if deposited at the specified interest rate and allowed to accumulate
- interest, would not be depleted until the specified number of withdrawals
- had been made.
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- @TIME DEPOSIT
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- TIME DEPOSITS
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- FINANCE ANALYZER computes the growing balance on time deposits.
- The three factors which determine a time deposit are the following:
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- 1. The Beginning Balance.
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- 2. The Interest Rate.
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- 3. The Ending Balance.
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- One may compute any of the above by specifying the other two. The user
- may also request that a time deposit table be created.
- @INTEREST RATE
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- INTEREST RATE CONVERSION
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- There are three different ways of computing interest rates.
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- 1. A.P.R. (or annual percentage rate)
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- 2. Effective APR (or Yield accounts for compounding of interest)
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- and
- 3. Add-On Rate.
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- A.P.R. is computed by multiplying the interest rate per period (the
- period is normally one month) by the number of periods per year.
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- Effective A.P.R. (Yield) gives the interest rate equivalent to a
- stated A.P.R. as calculated above when the period is one year.
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- Many truth-in-lending laws prohibit the use of Add-On rates. In years
- past loan interest rates were often quoted in terms of Add-On Rate. Add-On
- Rate computes the periodic (usually monthly) payment as if the entire Principal
- were borrowed for the entire length of the loan.
- @TIME DEPOSIT STARTING BALANCE
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- TIME DEPOSIT STARTING BALANCE
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- Enter the amount which will initially be invested. This amount will
- accumulate interest for the specified number of periods.
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- When STARTING BALANCE is being computed from Ending Balance,
- Interest Rate and Number of Periods (rather than specified) it represents
- the PRESENT VALUE of the Ending Balance for the specified Interest Rate and
- Number of Periods.
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