Ca$h plan 1.3 — A Model for Financial Planning :   User's Guide

What is this?  
 

This is a financial planning model, a tool for developing your financial plan.

By entering year parameters, such as start year and number of years to plan, sources of income, factors controlling changes in income, expenses and change factors, assets and liabilities and factor affecting them, a plan is generated.You can then view the results in the form of two levels of reports and two line graphs (asset-liability and income-expense).

As you see abnormal results, such as under- or over-spending, accumulating too much or too little resources for retirement, you can return to the update function and alter the factors to curb the abnormal tendencies of your first plan. As you start, the plan is primed with a default set of values which is an attempt at providing an average American household budget. It is up to you to change any of the values to make them more correct for your situation.

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Contents   (click on page numbers to jump to detailed page)    
  1. Before starting  
 
    What's new in version 1.3  
    Disclaimer  
    Getting help  
    Privacy policy  
  2. How it works  
 
    Starting  
    User name or file name  
    Navigating through the user interface  
    When you are done  
  3 .Build a plan  
 
    Time span & inflation  
    Income  
    Income factors  
    Expenses  
    Periodic large projects  
    Tax factors  
    Assets  
    Asset factors  
    Liabilities  
    Liability factors  
  4. Run reports  
 
    Using reports  
    Detail reports  
    Tax estimation report  
  5. Draw line graphs  
 
    Using graphs of the balance sheet  
    Using graphs of the income/expense report  
  6. Draw pie charts  
 
    Using pie charts of assets  
    Using pie charts of liabilities  
    Using pie charts of income  
    Using pie charts of expenses  
  7. Managing your plan  
 
    Simulation or what-if scenarios  
    Saving your plan  
Actually doing it    
 
  8. Now begin planning      
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