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- 101 Things
- That You Can Do With
- SolveIt!
- The Financial Calculator
-
- 1) Determine how much to save for a retirement plan.
- 2) Calculate the effects of extra payments on a mortgage.
- 3) Given the amount of a loan, the periodic payment, and the term, solve for the annual percentage rate.
- 4) Print a detail amortization report.
- 5) Take charge of your financial planning.
- 6) Display annual totals for each category of a personal or business budget.
- 7) Summarize a loan to a payment date showing remaining balance, extra payments and interest saved as the
- result of those extra payments.
- 8) Find out how much a series of deposits will be worth in the future.
- 9) Calculate how much a series of payments due in the future is worth today.
- 10) Ascertain the number of days between two dates.
- 11) Verify the interest paid on an investment.
- 12) Prove to your spouse that there is (is not) the money available to take a vacation!
- 13) Do instant "What-If" budget analysis.
- 14) Calculate lease payments.
- 15) Find out how long funds set aside for retirement will last assuming a regular withdrawal.
- 16) Confirm the amount being charged on a Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM).
- 17) Compute the cash flow from a rental property before or after tax considerations.
- 18) Compute the effective annual rate of return if you bought stock in June for 12,300 and sold it 17.5 months
- later for 15,675.
- 19) Plan for a college education.
- 20) Find out if a second mortgage is needed and what it will cost.
- 21) Print a personal, family or business budget.
- 22) Quickly prepare a net worth statement.
- 23) Determine today's value of a future cash flow.
- 24) Evaluate the rate of return on a series of projected cash flows from an investment in rental property (IRR).
- 25) Determine a MACRS depreciation strategy for a tax return.
- 26) Do instant "What-If" analysis on financial questions.
- 27) Print a personalized Annuity schedule.
- 28) Given the amount of a loan, the term, and the annual interest rate, solve for the payment amount.
- 29) Compare different saving plans assuming different payments at different periods for different rates and
- compounding methods.
- 30) Maintain separate files for an unlimited number of individuals or firms with their net worth, budget, loan
- and annuity data in one location.
- 31) Display the total payment amount on a loan for a fiscal or calendar year.
- 32) Design a loan with a balloon payment.
- 33) Compute the price of an affordable house.
- 34) Learn about unfamiliar financial concepts.
- 35) Determine the day-of-the-week for a date.
- 36) Edit reports to highlight important details for a presentation.
- 37) Project the tax effects from a rental property.
- 38) Design 12 monthly budgets with your own categories and groups.
- 39) Figure out how much money you can borrow assuming some payment amount, interest rate and term.
- 40) See if your income has kept up with inflation.
- 41) Compute the profit (or loss) on a series of stock trades.
- 42) Find the number of units needed to be sold to break-even.
- 43) Prepare an amortization schedule for a negatively amortizing loan.
- 44) Compare a projected budget with the actual results.
- 45) Determine if it pays to refinance your home.
- 46) Calculate total interest costs on a loan to any period.
- 47) Compute the effects of a change in payment amount in your savings plan.
- 48) Compare payout results of an annuity if the payment is constant or if it increases annually by an inflation.
- factor.
- 49) Verify the depreciation taken prior to 1987 using the ACRS method.
- 50) Find out how much an amount will be worth in the future.
- 51) Calculate how much an amount due in the future is worth today.
- 52) Compare a current cash offer for early retirement to the projected value of a future pension.
- 53) Contrast a fixed principal mortgage to a regular mortgage.
- 54) Compute the amount of interest paid on a loan for a fiscal or calendar year.
- 55) Solve for the withdrawal amount that will allow funds to last for a particular number of payments.
- 56) Calculate the interest owed for an exact number of days using one of 9 compounding terms.
- 57) Determine what gross sales will be at break-even.
- 58) Ascertain the cost of delay in an investment plan.
- 59) Check a bank's figures for a loan or investment.
- 60) Print custom & personalized Future Value schedules.
- 61) Find the date X days from a date. (Either forward or backward)
- 62) Print a cash flow report based upon a projected budget or actual results.
- 63) Print custom & personalized Present Value schedules.
- 64) Solve for the amount of interest paid on a loan from origination through any payment period.
- 65) Use any one of a number of generated reports to make a case to get a raise!
- 66) Calculate the effect a change in the interest rate has on a savings plan.
- 67) Do instant "What-If" analysis with regards to break-even for a small business.
- 68) See how many hours you have to bill to cover your fixed and variable business costs.
- 69) Compute the effects of missing a deposit in a savings plan.
- 70) Calculate the effects of inflation on your investments.
- 71) See how much your selected college will cost you in 7 years allowing for inflation.
- 72) Calculate what percentage your entertainment expenses are of income.
- 73) Determine the effect that an increase in the deposit amount will have on a savings strategy.
- 74) Compare the costs of competing mortgages.
- 75) Estimate what percent of your income can go for discretionary spending.
- 76) Compare a loan with payments made in advance to a loan with payments made in arrears.
- 77) Do instant "What-If" income tax planning.
- 78) Find the simple interest on an amount for any period.
- 79) Calculate the principal paid on a loan for a fiscal or calendar year.
- 80) Ascertain if a series of different cash flows meet your minimum investment requirements (NPV).
- 81) Find the amount remaining at any point in an annuity.
- 82) Discover how long it will take an amount to double at any rate of return for any common frequency of
- compounding.
- 83) Compute the real gain in your salary after inflation over any number of years using the official CPI figures
- for each year.
- 84) If you presently buy services for $1,000, see how much they will cost you after any number of years of
- inflation.
- 85) If groceries cost you $150 a week today, find out what the $150 will buy any number of years in the future.
- 86) Prepare a break-even summary for a proposed small business.
- 87) Do instant "What-If" analysis on loan questions.
- 88) Ascertain the most efficient quantity of an item to buy considering the time value of money (EOQ).
- 89) Calculate the rate of return on your money market fund after a series of irregular deposits grow to $13,675
- in 4 years.
- 90) Discount a mortgage.
- 91) Determine at what point a direct mail campaign is profitable.
- 92) Find the equivalent interest rates for 2 different compounding periods.
- 93) Compute how the addition of an additional employee with benefits effects the profitability of a firm.
- 94) See how long the proceeds from a life insurance policy will last assuming regular withdrawals adjusted
- periodically for inflation.
- 95) Use SolveIt! as an instructional tool to teach fundamental financial concepts.
- 96) Project cash flow from rental property factoring in different rates of inflation for rent increases, tax increases
- and maintenance increases.
- 97) Ascertain what the term of a loan should be given an amount, payment, and annual interest rate.
- 98) Compute what percentage your nondiscretionary expenditures are of income.
- 99) Find the discounted value of a loan when the payments do not start until some future point in time.
- 100) Save to disk cash flow data from rental properties for later editing or analysis.
- 101) Show your financial partners that while they are loosing money from operations, they are actually making
- money due to asset appreciation and tax consequences!