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Wealth Management System
Instructions
This is not a free program, if you are not registered and wish to use
it, please register and receive latest revision by sending $49.95 to:
Wm. W. Odlum, Suite 105, 35 Ormskirk Avenue,Toronto,
Ontario. M6S 1A8.
The following Files must be in the same directory:
WealtCal.Exe
WealtMgr.Exe
Getrich.WWO
Howtouse.WWO
Sample.WMS
To Start: Type at your screen prompt:
WealtCal <ENTER> for Savings, Retirement and Mortgage Calculations.
WealtMgr <ENTER> for the DataFile Manager.
The Wealth Fund Management Program will manage up to 30 different funds.
All Menu's are self-explanatory and make it is easy to use the Programs.
One cannot do any damage if one makes mistakes. There is a datafile
called Sample.WMS with the WealtMgr.Exe. Load it to see how the
various entries are made.
If you find that you made a wrong choice from the Menu and wish to get
back to the Menu without making changes, just keep pressing <ENTER>
to get back.
When entering data in a record, if a line requires no data, press <Enter>
instead of entering a 0 to save time.
Where asked for a decision, Y)es or <ENTER>, entering Y will carry out
the instruction and <ENTER> will cancel it.
Help Screens: Are available to show how to enter data in different ways.
Use them as a guide for your own entries, until you become familiar
with the different ways they are used.
When entering data in the Savings Growth Calculator there are seven
examples, with explanations, of the different ways they can be used.
The Retirement Income Calculator shows one example.
The Investment Manager has eight H)elp screens to show how to enter
data for Bought, Sold, Dividends in Cash, Dividends in Shares, Shares
sold for Fees and Management Fees.
The Mortgage Comparison Calculator has three examples.
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 key to erase errors on that line and
the <ENTER> key which completes the entry.
To Find Specific Instructions.
There are two main sections. The first pertaining to the Calculator
and the second to Fund Management. Within each section are subsections
named and listed in the order that they appear on the Main Menu's.
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE CALCULATOR
SAVINGS GROWTH CALCULATOR
To show how your capital could grow during the savings period.
(1) Enter annual amount available for investment or a lump sum.
(2) Re-enter annual amount added each year or 0 if this is a one-time
investment.
(3) Enter anticipated annual interest/growth rate in percent.
(4) Enter how many years this investment will be left to grow.
(5) Enter the anticipated annual inflation rate in percent. Has been
running at 5% in recent years. This will show the amount to be saved
each year to keep pace with inflation. It will still only have the
same purchasing power as the amount you started with.
How to read the Savings Growth Tables.
YEAR: Shows the Number of years the investment is left to grow.
ANNUAL INVESTMENT: Shows amount invested by you each year.
CURRENT VALUE: Shows the current value of your investment at the end of
each year.
TOTALS: Are shown at the end of each column.
RETIREMENT INCOME CALCULATOR
To show how much income could be withdrawn each year while Capital keeps
growing.
(1) Enter the amount of capital available on retirement.
(2) Enter anticipated annual interest/growth rate in percent.
(3) Enter percentage of capital to be withdrawn as income at end of
each year.
Always use a withdrawal as income percentage lower than the growth
rate percentage to take inflation into account. If the growth rate is
20% then taking out 15% each year would give 5% inflation protection.
(4) Enter number of years which you will be withdrawing income.
How to read the Retirement Income Tables.
YEAR: Shows the Number of years the investment is growing and providing
an income.
ANNUAL INCOME: Shows the amount of money withdrawn at the end of each
year. For example Starting Amount = $100,00000 , Interest/Growth
rate = 15% for 25 years, withdrawal income = 10% each year.
The end of the first year would show $100,00000 minus 10% = amount of
income withdrawn - $10,00000 leaving Current Value at $105,00000.
Always use a withdrawal rate lower than the interest/growth rate to
take inflation into account. The above example would give 5%
inflation protection.
CURRENT VALUE: Shows the current value of your investment at the end of
each year.
TOTALS: Are shown at the end of each column.
FIND ANNUAL COMPOUND GROWTH
Enter the Cost of investment (Property, Stocks, Bonds, etc) then enter
the present value and the number of years you have held or intend to
hold the investment and the program will show the rate of return
compounded on an annual basis.
PAYMENT ON A LOAN
Enter the Loan Amount, the Annual Rate of Interest and the Life of the
Loan in Months.
MORTGAGE TABLES
Please note that American and Canadian Mortgages are computed
differently. American are compounded monthly while Canadian are
compounded semi-annually.
MORTGAGE COMPARISONS
Enter at (1) the Mortgage amount, at (2) the rate of interest, at (3)
the number of years. On the next line enter which of the three you
wish to vary and then enter the amount of increase which must be
related to the entry chosen. Program will then show a table of ten
lines for comparison.
For instance if you choose (2) then an entry of 0.25 will show the
effect of interest rates in increments of 1/4 of 1%.
CANADIAN AND AMERICAN MORTGAGES DETAILED
Enter the Mortgage Amount, the Rate of Interest and number of Years. It
will then show Blended Monthly Payments of Principal and Interest,
a breakdown of where the Monthly payment goes each month for the life
of the Mortgage with Totals for each year. Hitting enter will give
the data for the following year.
SAVINGS GROWTH COMPARISONS
Entries are the same as for the Savings Growth Calculator with one
additional entry, Post to Investment, by entering 1 to 4 your
calculations will be posted to that Investment number. 0 will keep it
in the entry area. Giving you five Future Value comparisons.
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE FUND MANAGER
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START A NEW FILE
Starting with no records in memory, choose Add and Edit Funds from
the main menu.
At A)dd or C)hange or D)elete a Fund Name choose A)dd.
Enter the Name of the New Fund.
From the main menu choose Add and Edit Records.
Use F)unds to select the Fund to which the record will be added.
Select A)dd Record, Use H)elp Screen. Enter your data.
Record is checked before saving. If the entries are incorrect the record
will not be saved. Entries must be compatible with the Transaction.
See H)elp for guidance.
When you are finished adding records, from the main menu choose Save
Current File to Disk. Enter a unique filename.
The file has now been saved to disk and can be recalled by choosing Load
a File from Disk.
RECORD ENTRIES
Use H)elp to see how entries are made for the different transactions.
(1) TYPE OF TRANSACTION: You must enter one letter to tell program how
to compute the record. B = Bough