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- ║ Sample AS-EASY-AS Templates ║
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- ║ (C) Copyright 1992, TRIUS, Inc. ║
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- The AS-EASY-AS template worksheets described here, INSURE.WKS
- and LEASE.WKS, are provided as samples of the power of this
- unique program.
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- DISCLAIMER
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- THESE PROGRAMS ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
- ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THESE
- PROGRAMS IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU (NOT
- TRIUS, INC.) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY REPAIR,
- SERVICING, OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT WILL TRIUS, INC. BE LIABLE
- TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS,
- OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE
- OR INABILITY TO USE THESE PROGRAMS, EVEN IF TRIUS, INC. HAS BEEN
- ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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- INSURE.WKS AS-EASY-AS TEMPLATE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is a typical situation that most of us have encountered at one
- time or another. While looking around for life insurance, you find
- out that you can get $50,000 of term life insurance for a monthly
- premium of $9.50. When you are ready to buy that policy, you
- realize that although this is a relatively low rate, a term policy
- usually does not build any cash value. An insurance representative
- offers to sell you a whole life policy which will have a cash value
- of $10,000 after 25 years, with a monthly premium of only $23.
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- A simple way to try and figure out which is a better offer, would be
- to look at the difference of the two premiums,
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- $23.00 - $9.50 = $13.50 per month, or
- $162.00 per year, or
- $4050.00 over 25 years.
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- On the surface, then, it looks that over a 25 year period, the whole
- life policy would cost you $4050.00 more but would have a $10,000.00
- cash value, so you are making out quite well.
-
- This, however, is only half the story. Since the term insurance
- would cost you $13.50 less a month, you could deposit that extra
- money in the bank, thus collecting interest over the 25 years of the
- policy.
-
- The INSURE worksheet gives you the ability to perform all such
- calculations automatically, and therefore, make a much more informed
- choice about which type of insurance policy to purchase.
-
- The screen of the example, discussed above, is provided
- below. Note that the negative value in the "Savings/Losses" column
- indicates that the term insurance policy would result in losing
- $644.58, therefore the whole life option, under these circumstances,
- is preferable.
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- EXAMPLE INSURE.WKS Screen
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- Compare Cost of Whole Life and Term Insurance
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- Alt-I to Enter Data, Alt-P to Print
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- Annual Premium for Term Insurance $114.00
- Annual Premium for Whole Life Insurance $276.00
- Whole Life Cash Value Period (years) 25.00
- Whole Life Cash Value at end of Period $10,000.00
- Average Annual Interest Rate over Period 6 %
- Future Value of Difference in Premiums $9,355.42
- Savings (+) Losses (-) with Term -$644.58
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- NOTE: The solution contained in INSURE.WKS assumes that the term
- insurance and the whole life insurance premiums remain the same and
- that you faithfully deposit the premium difference in a savings
- account every month.
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- LEASE.WKS AS-EASY-AS TEMPLATE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- As the tax laws are always changing, and interest (other than for a
- home mortgage) is no longer deductible, more and more of us are
- becoming interested in leasing our automobiles. Deciding whether
- to do it or not, however, is not the easiest thing in the world.
- There are many factors one has to consider before deciding to buy or
- to lease.
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- The accompanying worksheet template, LEASE.WKS, will make the job
- somewhat easier for you.
-
- As the opening screen indicates, pressing Alt-I invokes the data
- input routine. Motion is restricted to the cells containing values
- that may be modified (highlighted or green on a color monitor).
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- As you are altering the input values, the template automatically
- calculates the savings (or loss) of leasing versus purchasing the
- automobile.
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- You should keep in mind that this is only a tool to help you decide,
- the final decision is YOURS to make. The template attempts to
- account for most factors that would enter a purchase/lease
- calculation and the correctness of the result strongly depends on
- the accuracy of the input data.
-
- The table below contains an example of a purchase/lease
- comparison. As you can see, the last entry in the table "Lease (+)
- Purchase (-) Savings" contains a positive value. This indicates
- that under the conditions described by the data entered by the user,
- leasing the automobile would result in savings of $763.59.
-
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- Lease OR Purchase Automobile
- Press Alt-I to Enter Data, Alt-P to Print
- +-----------------------------------------------------------+
- | Number of years (Lease and Loan) 3 |
- | Interest Rate for Loan (per year) 14.00 % |
- | Sale Price of Automobile $22,000.00 |
- | Purchase down payment $16,000.00 |
- | Amount financed (loan) $6,000.00 |
- | Loan Monthly Payment $205.07 |
- | Average Monthly Maintenance cost $30.00 |
- | Total monthly Cost $235.07 |
- | Monthly Lease payment $415.00 |
- | Resale value at end of Lease/Loan $14,000.00 |
- | Interest Rate on savings (per year) 8.00 % |
- | Present Value Cost of Loan $7,501.37 |
- | Present Value of Resale Price $11,021.56 |
- | Present Value cost of purchase $12,479.81 |
- | Present Value of Lease Payments $13,243.40 |
- | Lease (+) Purchase (-) savings $763.59 |
- +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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- SOLVE.WKS AS-EASY-AS TEMPLATE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is a simple template that given values for three unknowns, in an
- equation, will solve for the fourth.
-
- When the file is first retrieved, you will notice that the column
- labeled "Input" is the only one containing values. That is the only
- column where input is permitted.
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- The column to the right contains the solution for the unknown with no
- input value. A message appears at the bottom of the table indicating
- that at least ONE of the variables (to solve for) should have no input.
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- Place the cursor on one of the input cells and use the /Range, Erase
- command to see the template produce the desired results.
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- TILE.WKS AS-EASY-AS TEMPLATE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- A simple template that demonstrates the program's ability to
- display multimple views of your worksheet and display text and
- graphics at the same time (if your hardware supports it).
-
- Simple instructions are provided on screen.
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- GRAPHS.WKS AS-EASY-AS TEMPLATE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- A template with simple examples of the fourteen types of
- graphs available in AS-EASY-AS Ver. 5.5. It also demonstrates
- the macro language capabilities of the program, with user defined
- menus, etc.
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- Simple instructions are provided on screen.
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- BOX.WKS AS-EASY-AS TEMPLATE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- A macro driven template that demonstrates the Box formatting
- capabilities of the program. Self-explanatory!
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