Full Description:
Retirement Planner will help you list your expenses, assets and investments to project your financial needs now through the remainder of your career and into retirement. The program uses simple worksheets for input, allowing you to enter personal data, investment data, assets, income and expenses. The program automatically compensates for the time value of money, the calculations are internal to the program so you as a user don't need to fill sheet after sheet with complex calculations. The graphical output projects your net worth on a monthly basis from now to the end of your retirement. The graph is adjusted for all you monthly living expenses, the return on your investments and inflation as well as income taxes and social security payments. Another graph shows future income vs expenses over the same period of time, revealing any periods where expenses outstrip income, leaving you vulnerable. The program allows each scenario to be saved to a named file, you can easily develop multiple scenarios and compare the results. You can print the data and graphs for each scenario. The on-line users manual contains complete, screen by screen instructions on how to use the program as well as an overview of the retirement planning process.