The following list of calculators was developed for the
purpose of helping his fellow cheapskates in their
financial number-crunching. No
longer is it necessary to take all the time and trouble to learn all of the complex
formulas necessary for successful financial management. From now on, all you have to do is
to visit this ever-growing list of calculators, plug in the numbers as instructed, and let
the calculators perform all of the complex calculations for you.
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calculators fail to work for you, check to make sure your browser has JavaScript turned
on. If it still doesn't work, we suggest you visit either the Netscape site or the
Microsoft site and download a copy of version 3.01. Also, since the calculator scripts
must load before the pages do, please allow extra time for the pages to come into view.
Appliance Operating Cost Calculator:
This JavaScript calculator will help you to estimate the
cost of operating
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any given electrical appliance, based on the average KWH (kilowatt
hours) used per day, and on the average cost per KWH charged by your electric company.
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Average Interest Rate Calculator:
This calculator will help you compute the average combined interest rate
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you are paying on up to fifteen of your outstanding debts. This can be very
helpful when deciding whether or not to move the balances of several credit cards to
another card or to another form of debt (loans, etc.).
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Bi-Weekly Payment Calculator:
This calculator will show you how much you will save if you make 1/2 of your loan
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payment every two weeks instead of making a full loan payment once a
month. In effect, you will be making one extra loan payment per year -- without hardly
noticing the additional cash outflow. But, as you're about to discover, you will certainly
notice the increased cash flow that will occur when you pay your lean off well ahead of
schedule!
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Budget Percentage Calculator:
This calculator will compute your recommended budget amounts for an income
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period you enter. The suggested percentage guidelines are based on net income compiled by Dave Ramsey,
author of Financial Peace
(Viking, 1997, $21.95).
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Car Cost Comparison Calculator:
When buying a car most people fail to consider ALL of the expenses that will be
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generated by their purchase. And because nearly all car buying
scenarios come with different variables (depreciation rates, interest rates, purchase
prices, insurance costs, mpg ratings, etc.), it becomes extremely difficult to compare one
buying scenario with another ... until now that is. This calculator will not only help you
to forecast the REAL COST of buying and owning a car, but it will also help you to more
accurately compare the real cost of one car-buying scenario with the real cost of a second
car-buying scenario.
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Cash Flow Calculator:
Since cash inflows and outflows vary in amounts and intervals, it can be
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extremely difficult and confusing trying to come up with the amount of money you can
afford to spend during any given month. Sure you might have leftover cash this month, but
spending it might cause you to fall short on an annual premium that's coming due next
month. This calculator will convert all of your cash inflows and outflows (daily, weekly,
monthly, quarterly, etc.) into their monthly equivalents. You can then print out the
results and refer to it when creating each month's spending plan.
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Children's
Math Tutor: Since addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are skills
children need to know in order to become successful money managers, this interactive tool
was created to give CM children an interesting way to hone those all-important math
skills. If you have children and any of them haven't yet memorized the math factors for
their age group, simply make using this tool part of their required daily homework.
College
Funding Calculator: This calculator, based on The College Board's Annual Survey of
Colleges for the 2000-2001 school year, will help you to determine how much money you need
to invest on a monthly basis now, in order to be able to pay for your child's college
education by the time he or she is ready to start college. The calculator allows you to
choose between In-State and Out-of-State, between Resident and Commuter and between Public
or Private -- and adjusts the estimated costs according to those selections. Plus, the
calculator even adjusts the future cost of attending college based on your own estimated
rate of inflation.
Credit
Card Comparison Calculator: This calculator will help you to compare the long-term costs of credit cards that have varying interest rates, annual fees, introductory rates and compounding intervals.
Credit
Card Early-Payment Savings Calculator: Since most credit card companies compute interest charges based on your average daily balance, making your payment early in the billing cycle will not only reduce the chances of getting hit with late charges, but it will also save you money. This calculator will help you to determine the interest savings that will occur if you make your monthly credit card payment earlier in the billing cycle rather than at the end. Savings will be computed for both your next payment, and for all remaining payments (assumes a fixed monthly payment amount).
Debt
Consolidation Calculator: When the typical debt-consolidation company advertises that
they can "save you money," what they are most often referring to is simply a
reduction in your total monthly debt payments -- not a savings in the cost of paying off
your debt (interest charges). Sure, by consolidating your payments into a single loan, you
might be paying one monthly payment that is smaller than the sum of your current monthly
payments, but if they stretch your loan out for a longer period of time you could actually
end up paying more interest by consolidating. This calculator will help you to determine
whether or not consolidating will actually reduce the cost of retiring your debts.
Debt
Investment Calculator: Before you go throwing darts on Wall Street, check to make sure
you can't earn a higher rate of return simply by investing in your own debt! For example,
if you have a credit card balance that's costing you 19% per year, and you increase your
payment, you will get a guaranteed 19% return on your investment. What's more, your
earnings will be tax-free! So use this JavaScript Calculator to see how much you could be
earning if you increased your payment on any one of your debts.
Expense Percentage
Calculator: This tool will help you to determine what percentage of your income you
are currently spending on each of your various expense categories (food, clothing, etc.).
Gas
Budget Calculator: This calculator will help you to estimate your annual gasoline cost
given the type of car you drive, the number of miles you drive per year, and the price you
are paying for a gallon of gasoline.
Gas
Station Savings Calculator: This calculator will help you to determine whether or not
driving the extra miles to a cheaper gas station will actually save you money.
Generic
Savings Calculator: This calculator will show you how much you'll save over the course
of your lifetime when permanently switching from any given high priced buying habit (name
brand) to its functional, less expensive equivalent (generic). Plus, it will also show you
how much interest you could earn if you were to invest all or part of those savings as you
realized them. As you're about to see, "a penny saved" can REALLY ADD UP!
Irregular
Payment Calculator: This calculator will convert your non-monthly payments into their
monthly equivalents, and then provide you will a total. This total will represent how much
you will need to set aside each month (into your Freedom Account™) in order to make your
non-monthly payments as they come due. A great budgeting tool!
Lifetime
Earnings Calculator: The purpose of this calculator is to make you aware of just how
much money you (and your spouse/mate, if applicable) will have the opportunity to manage
between now and when you retire. And the point this calculator will attempt to make, is
that if it turns out you end up broke at retirement age, it won't be because you didn't
make enough money, it will because you did not successfully manage the abundance of income
(potential wealth) you managed to create.
Loan
Balance Calculator: This calculator will help you to determine the current balance of a loan when payments that have been made have been different from those stipulated in the original loan terms. This may be especially helpful if you have sold something on Contract for Deed, but the borrower has not made the regular payments as stipulated by the loan agreement.
Loan
Calculator w/Amortization Schedule: This calculator will compute a loan's monthly
payment amount based on the principal amount borrowed, the length of the loan and the
annual interest rate. Then, once you have computed the monthly payment you can also create
and print out the loan's amortization schedule.
Loan
Comparison Calculator: This calculator will not only compute the payment amount and
interest charges on any given loan, but it will also allow you to see what effect changing
any of the four variables has on the cost of the loan.
Long-distance
Cost Calculator: This calculator will not only assist you in calculating the average
cost per minute of one or any number of calls, but it will also keep track of the cost of
your long distance phone call (including state and federal taxes) based on either the
calculated average cost per minute or on the actual cost per minute -- if you happen to
know it.
Meat Cost
Per Serving Calculator: Price-per-pound can be misleading because all cuts of meat
will not yield the same number of servings per pound. This calculator, based on the
information provided by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cooperative Extension (Buying Meat by the Serving), will
help you to calculate and compare the cost per serving of up to five different cuts of
various types of meat (110 selections overall). You can also use this calculator to
determine how many pounds of a selected meat to buy based on the number of servings you
need.
Minimum
Payment Credit Card Interest Calculator: This calculator will show you how much
credit-card interest you'll pay if you continually make only the minimum monthly payment
on your credit card.
Missing
Loan-Term Calculator: If you know any 3 of a loan's 4 terms (principal, interest rate,
payments remaining, and payment amount), this calculator will help you to find the missing
term. For example, if you know the interest rate, the payments remaining, and the payment
amount, this calculator will compute the current payoff amount of the loan.
Monthly
Deposit Savings Calculator: This calculator will show you how much a periodic,
interest earning investment will grow to, based on the entered interest rate and length of
time.
Monthly
Deposit Time Calculator: This calculator will compute how long it will take you to
reach your desired savings goal, based on three factors: the amount you currently have set
aside, the amount you can add to your savings each month and the annual interest rate you
expect to earn.
Mortgage
Payoff Goal Calculator: This calculator will show you the additional monthly payment
you will need to make on your current mortgage in order to pay if off within a specified
number of years. It will also show you how much interest you will save if you make the
calculated additional payment each month, from now until your mortgage is paid off.
Special thanks to online subscriber Lyle Crafton for presenting the idea for this
calculator.
Mortgage
Qualification Calculator: This calculator was designed to allow you to see what size
mortgage you can afford based on comparing your present financial condition to mortgage
lending-industry standards.
Mortgage
Refinancing Calculator: This calculator will help you to decide whether or not you
should refinance your current mortgage at a lower interest rate. Not only will this
calculator calculate the monthly payment and net interest savings, but it will also
calculate how many months it will take to break even on the closing costs.
Net Worth
Calculator: This calculator was designed to help you to take a "snap-shot"
of your current financial condition Whereas an income and expense statement shows you your
financial picture for a given period of time (month, year, etc.), this Net Worth
Calculator will show you your financial picture at a single point in time (a specific
date). That way, if you compute your Net Worth now, and then again 3 months from now, you
will then be able to tell whether your financial picture is improving or getting worse.
Payment
Breakdown Calculator: This calculator will help you to determine the principal and
interest breakdown on a loan's given payment number. Simply enter the loan's original
terms (principal, interest rate, number of payments, and monthly payment amount) and the
payment you want broken down.
Portfolio
Mix Calculator: This calculator is based on Author Austin Pryor's
"Just-the-Basics" investment strategy. Upon selecting your life-phase and
investing temperament, this calculator will not only tell you the exact portfolio mix you
should strive for, but it will even calculate the specific dollar amounts based on the
amount of money you have available for investing.
Present Value
of a Single Amount Calculator: Use this calculator to compute how much you would need
to invest now in order to have your investment grow to a specific amount within a
specified time-frame.
Rapid Debt-Repayment
Calculator: In a single click this calculator will: calculate the number of payments
remaining and interest charges for each debt with a separate chart for
"Falling," "Fixed," and "RDRP" payments, sort the debts by
order of payoff, create your Rapid Debt Repayment Plan, summarize all three payment plans,
and finally will create a "Schedule of Payments" chart that you can use to mark
off each payment as you make them. The RDRP result page will also tell you how much
interest you will save as a result of following through on your plan. Plus, on the bottom
of the RDRP Plan you will also have the option to see how your freed up debt payments will
grow if you start investing them once you become debt free.
Real Hourly
Wage Calculator: So your boss told you that you were getting paid $10 an hour? Don't
believe it! This calculator will show you how much you're REALLY profiting (after-tax,
after work-related-expense takehome) from each hour you devote to working--both paid and
unpaid.
Rent Vs Buy
Calculator: This calculator will help you to compare the costs of renting to the costs
of buying a home. Since there are all kinds of forces at work behind the scenes (interest,
property taxes, tax savings, appreciation, opportunity costs, closing costs, selling
costs, etc.), comparing the cost of renting to the cost of buying is a lot more
complicated than just comparing the monthly mortgage payment to the monthly rent payment.
This calculator attempts to forecast the net effects of all the hidden forces so you can
make an informed decision.
Retirement
Savings Calculator: Use this calculator to compute how much you would need to have
invested in order to withdraw a specified amount each year over the course of a specified
period of time.
Savings Goal
Calculator: This calculator to will help you to figure how much your current savings
will grow and how much more you'll need to save each month in order to achieve a given
savings goal within a given number of years.
Single
Debt-Payment Investment Calculator: This calculator will compute how much interest you
will save by adding an additional principal payment to the next regularly scheduled
payment on any given debt. For example, if you find yourself with an extra $20 this month,
this calculator will tell you how much interest you will save (guaranteed, tax-free return
on your investment) if you add that $20 to the next payment of one of your debts
(preferably the one with the highest interest rate).
Single Deposit
Savings Calculator: This calculator will show you how much a single, interest earning
investment will grow to, based on the entered interest rate and length of time.
Spending
Cost Calculator: When you spend money on non-essential, non-investment type products
or services, you simultaneously give up the right to earn interest on the money you spent
... for the rest of your life. The total of the money you spend unnecessarily, plus the
forgone interest earnings, represents the real cost of spending (usually an amount much
higher than is actually printed on the price-tag). Therefore, in order to make wise
purchase decisions (expenditures that return a benefit of equal or greater value than
their real cost), you must be aware of -- and give full consideration to -- the real cost
of each purchase. This calculator will help you to do just that.
Transportation
Savings Calculator: This calculator will help you to determine any savings that might
occur if you were to choose a transportation alternative (walking, biking, bus ride, etc.)
to driving your car. You can either compute your savings for a one-time trip or for
multiple reoccurring trips over any number of years. Plus, you can choose whether to
compute the savings using the Gasoline Method (cost of gasoline only) or using the Mileage
Method (average cost per mile to own, operate, maintain and insure your car).
Variable
Compounding & Deposit Savings Calculator: This calculator not only allows you to
compute and compare the forcasted interest earnings on various investment scenarios, but
it also allows you to choose the deposit and compounding intervals. No longer will you
need to wonder if an investment offering a 6% return, compounded daily is better than an
investment offering a 7% return, compounded annually.
Wage
Conversion Calculator: This calculator will help you to quickly convert a wage stated
in one periodic term (hourly, weekly, etc.) into its equivalent stated in all other common
periodic terms. This can be helpful when comparing your present wage to a wage being
offered by a prospective employer where each wage is stated in a different periodic term
(e.g., one is listed as an hourly amount and the other is listed as an annual amount).
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