VeriPlan Overview: Part 2 of 7
A well-organized lifetime financial planning application with extensive color graphics
Organization:
The VeriPlan personal finance software provides thirty-four user accessible worksheets organized into groups that have the same colored tabs. VeriPlan provides extensive internal and external hyper-linking to help you to get around quickly. VeriPlan’s primary worksheet groupings and the number of worksheets in each group are:
- Information worksheets (2)
- User Profile and Tools input worksheets, including an overview (10)
- Central reference and links worksheets (1)
- Graphics worksheets, including an overview (20)
- Consolidated output data worksheet (1)
Financial Projection Graphics:
A customer comment from the sidebar: "VeriPlan is a big help. I'm in my mid 50's and have been a diligent saver and passable investor for many years. I am going through a work transition from salaried corporate employee to independent consultant, and my aging parents are needing financial help. Financial planning is particularly important to me and my family now. Thanks for making your product available. I've recommended it to a number of folks and will continue to do so." J.H. in Portland, OR
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "VeriPlan has been a very flexible home financial planning tool. It took me a few hours on a weekend to understand what VeriPlan could do and to enter our financial data. Our family financial affairs were scattered all over, and we lacked a comprehensive picture of what the future might hold for us. I wanted a clear understanding of our projected lifetime and retirement income, expenses, taxes, debts, real estate, financial assets, college investments, retirement investments, and everything else all together." S. L. in Altadena, CA
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "You have done a great job of including the necessary instructions in VeriPlan, located close to where the modeling is happening. The thing I like about the VeriPlan User Guide is that it adds substantial additional commentary that I personally find very valuable. I was hunting for a capable and reasonably priced financial planning package, and VeriPlan is an awesome tool. The more I play around with it, the more valuable I find it. Your free user guide was what made me decide to get VeriPlan." C. A. in North Royalton, OH
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "One of the stories that VeriPlan tells me is how much of my money could be lost to excessive investment costs. I just switched to some lower cost funds in my 401k. I loved updating VeriPlan with the new cost values just to see the red bar on the Total Assets chart get significantly thinner - quite a shocking difference." M. W. in Tulsa, OK
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "I am extremely impressed with the depth of information that VeriPlan asks for and provides. VeriPlan seems much more detailed than one would expect for the very reasonable price. Although I am not a financial professional, I consider myself more financially educated than the most people of my age (62). I find that VeriPlan's depth to be just what we need for our retirement planning. I am glad I purchased it. Thanks." J. W. in Gainsville, FL
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "I have been very happy with this software. I will put VeriPlan to work to help optimize our IRA to Roth conversions, while avoiding the IRMAA penalties if we can. We are in an opportunistic window for the next several years. I have been appalled by the lack of professional knowledge available with respect to the tax burden that will fall upon us when RMDs take effect. Most of the information I have found suggests that it isn't a problem. Luckily, this software will be of great benefit to chart our course." J. S. in Louisville, KY
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "I am a recently retired engineer, and I created a cash flow Excel spreadsheet for 25 years of retirement. So, I fully appreciate the data and potential variances that must be accounted for. Yet, mine is so very simple compared to VeriPlan. I love VeriPlan's concept of total control over inputs and parameters. Veriplan's objectives are very much like mine, but it has many, many more input and control options, and the price is spot on." L. G. in Southbridge, VA
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "I've been using VeriPlan for a few weeks now, and it is everything I was looking for plus a whole lot more of what I didn't even know I needed. By simply switching VeriPlan to a state that does not have a state income tax, I can see how much I could save on traditional IRA distributions in retirement by moving to a state without income taxes. It is a real education in personal finance, and I think just about everyone would benefit from using this tool." T. H. in Silicon Valley CA
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Each of VeriPlan’s twenty-one automated projection graphics covers ages 18 to 100 years in yearly increments. These lifecycle graphics automatically project your annual:
- Gross earned income, retirement income, and other income (real $/yr)
- Ordinary, major planned, and adjusted expense budget plus income taxes, employment taxes, & property taxes (real $/yr)
- Pre-debt profit, after expenses and taxes (real $/yr)
- Debt payments for consumption- and investment-oriented debt (real $/yr)
- Profit, after expense, tax, and debt payments (real $/yr)
- Pre- retirement savings rates — with and without investment-oriented debt payments (%/yr)
- Tax payments in eight categories (real $/yr)
- Average tax rates in eight categories, as a % of earned income, retirement income, and other income (%/yr)
- Gross and net human capital, which is your remaining ability to earn and save (real $/yr)
- Financial portfolio assets with net human capital (real $/yr)
- Financial portfolio asset allocation (%/yr)
- Net financial portfolio asset withdrawal rates (%/yr)
- Total assets with net human capital and debts (real $/yr)
- Taxable and tax-advantaged financial assets (real $/yr)
- Taxable and tax-advantaged financial asset deposit and withdrawal transactions (real $/yr)
- Pre-tax returns on cash, bond, and equity assets with excessive investment costs (real $/yr)
- Pre-tax returns on cash, bond, and equity assets with excessive investment costs (%/yr)
- Lost returns due to excessive past and future sales load payments (real $/yr)
- Cash, bond, and equity assets with cumulative assets lost to excessive investment costs (real $/yr)
- Financial, property, & other portfolio assets with cumulative assets lost to excessive investment costs (real $/yr)
- Asset portfolio “safety margin” (years going forward)
Projection Data:
The VeriPlan integrated financial calculator also automatically provides 21 data worksheets that provide tables with all the annual data that VeriPlan uses to draw each of its 21 projection graphics.
Constant purchasing power dollars:
A customer comment from the sidebar: "VeriPlan's financial projection graphics simply lay out what the future might hold for my family. Also, VeriPlan is a very fast and automated financial investment calculator that allows me to change anything and to test alternate investment decisions rapidly. Its integrated documentation explains clearly how it works, and it also includes a wealth of well-researched personal finance and investment information that has been very helpful." T. F. in Muncie, IN
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "I do most of my own financial modeling, and I like the way VeriPlan generates “what if” scenarios that I like to compare, such as possibly buying a rental property, selling my house and renting, moving social security retirement age payment timing, and pulling out IRA money after taxes. Plus, I like VeriPlan for its automated projection of detailed investment costs. Thanks for making a great product." K. W. in Naperville, IL
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "I am 10 years out from retirement, and I needed to start thinking more seriously about having enough to retire on. I'm following the suggestions of you and others in opting for more hands-on retirement planning. I am also using lower cost index investing. There are too many wealth management companies out there, all ready to charge an arm and leg for what should be straightforward financial planning work." G. B. in Smith Mountain Lake, VA
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "Larry, Hello again! I've continued to work with VeriPlan, and the more I work with it the more I'm amazed at how much it does. It's an incredible decision support tool for my financial planning. Since I have already built a model of my lifetime finances, it is easy to test new ideas as they come to me. Thanks again." M. W. R. in Austin, TX
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A customer comment from the sidebar: "I first learned about the zero federal taxes on long term capital gains when under the 25% marginal income tax rate from working with VeriPlan a number of years ago. I’m no longer working but not yet receiving RMD’s or social security so my ordinary income is relatively low. So I’ve been taking full advantage of zero federal capital gains taxes by selling off my high expense ratio mutual funds which have a lot of capital gains built in since I’ve held them a long time and then I reinvest them in index mutual funds which don’t generate as much capital gains distributions. So the education that you and VeriPlan provide has saved me thousands in taxes, not to mention the expenses on high cost mutual funds. Thanks again." M. D. in El Paso, TX
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All VeriPlan financial planning projections extract inflation and use real or non-inflationary dollars with constant projected purchasing power. By projecting and presenting all financial planning information in real, inflation adjusted dollars, in effect, the cost of a loaf of bread today is projected to be the same as the cost of a loaf of bread years or even decades into the future.
Planning applications with projections that include inflation force users to make mental adjustments for escalating cost-of-living, and this can be error-prone. VeriPlan projections are designed with real dollars to make analyzing the adequacy of future income and assets against projected expenses more straight-forward for the user.
This is an example of a lifetime living expense and taxes graphic that is automatically generated for every financial planning scenario that you develop in VeriPlan.
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