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nimnorf2
08-12-2001, 01:16 PM
Hey gang,
I sit on the pension committee for my business. Trying to come up with a system that is more user friendly than anything I can find on the web to help people do retirement planning. Every site I go to, IRS, Fidelity, Quicken, etc. ask questions or have fields that are not appropriate to our situation.....so....here's my question. How difficult would it be to make our own. We would need fields that would amortize. The variables would be time, amount $ presently in accounts and monthly additions through payroll, percentage expected in the market, inflation, age of retirement, present age of the individual...blah blah blah. I wonder if I could almost do this with Excel?
I know how to open a MS Word doc..... you click on it. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif
Seriously, we already have our own secure staff website so we don't have to completely "re-create the wheel". Is it just better to give them details on how to use Fidelity?

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geebee76
08-12-2001, 02:56 PM
Hey Nimnorf,
I,m pretty sure you could achieve what you've mentioned using Excel. I've used Excel for similar projects albeit only for fun. You could possibly consider using VB for writing a simple little program that specificately meets your needs, or a combination of both. I'm quite a novice with both Excel and VB but I would feel confident in attempting this. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/tongue.gif

Maybe someone else has a better idea ?

Hope this helps http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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Ghost_Hacker
08-12-2001, 04:06 PM
The easiest way is proably to run some VBscript in your web page. Java would work too, but I don't know java so can't help you there.

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DaleR
08-13-2001, 01:58 AM
Check out Barnes and Noble or Borders...Seems to me I saw a bookk entitlted "MBA's Guide to Excel," or something to that effect. It had all sorts of formulas you can punch in to Excel and come up with spreadsheets that do stuff like you are trying to do.

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