Plan and J And L Retirement Planner Software for Windows

Venture Planning System Pro - VPSpro
$24.95 - Advantage Venture Systems Inc.

The VPSpro is an award winning step-by-step business plan software system, which guides entrepreneurs confidentially through the research of their project on-line and helps them analyse the feasibility of their business idea or expansion. The software produces a comprehensive set of three-year financial projections and then you go on to auto-generate a full set of notes to the projections.The planners can also complete full business plan narrative by using the VPSpro Business Plan Writer. An advantage of the Venture Planning System is that it is able to link the planners to suppliers, professionals and service provides at the right time in the planning process. The VPSpro is geographically based so that on-line communities can be created in any location in the world so that business planners will find information that is useful to their situation and is designed to insure that sponsor linking occurs primarily at the time in the planning process at which the planners can use the information. Also, built into the system is the ability to create regional Business Advisor Networks that will be created by economic development organization on a revenue share basis.

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Multi Project Planner
$148 - Adaptive Planning Tools

Multiple concurrent projects competing for shared resources is at the very focus of Multi-Project-Planner.
The project activities are booked on a schedule, common to all work teams.
I.e. the Gantt charts of the projects are superimposed upon this common schedule.
This way both resource allocation and the interrelationships between the activities are handled in one and the same view. A feature called 'Hot potatoes' lets the system keep track of all the loose ends and little things while you concentrate on the planning issues at large or on a single issue at a time. Employees can be automaticaly allocated to work teams based on competencies and avaliability. Template projects can be formulated and dropped on the schedule several times. Just in time planning is possible using template projects and the "Best Fit Monitor". Decision points can be attached to each project activity. They will raise a flag when due.
Look and feel of the familiar planning board.
Interoperability through integrated web server.

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J and L Retirement Planner
$99.95 - J&L Software

The top rated J and L Retirement Planner is a retirement planning software program that allows you to create simple or complex retirement scenarios based on financial events through out your life. It makes your retirement planning easy. You create the scenario based on your current financial status and future financial events. The J and L Retirement Planner executes your scenario and displays the effects on your net worth through out a selected time span. The output is displayed in a text format that shows the yearly effects on up to 50 accounts, including investment, tax free, retirement, asset and equity accounts. The output may also be presented with bar, line and pie graphs. The program can create a scenario based on mortgage, loan, withdrawal, deposit, and transfer events. The program includes budgeting features and many financial calculators including a rule72 calculator. It also includes RMD distributions.

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Astroplanets
$9.99 - DV Software

Astroplanets is a 3-D planetary screensaver The planets of the solar system are seen traveling through the galaxy - revolving around the sun as they go.

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MySpendingPlan
$0 - MySpendingPlan.com

MySpendingPlan.com is free secure online personal finance budgeting software that can help you manage your spending to save money and help empower you to reach your financial goals.

Use MySpendingPlan.com to manage all of your home budgets as well as for your special activities such as buying/selling/building a home, vacation planning, home remodeling and much more! You can also use our software to manage spending for organizations and other groups and collaborate on your plan as well.

MySpendingPlan.com is budgeting software that uses a modernized version of the "envelope system" that fits today's lifestyle and home budgets. With our budgeting software, you can create virtual envelopes and monitor their balances in real time. As a result, it helps you to make good financial decisions before you spend your money, thereby helping you to reach your personal finance goals.

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PlanBee project management planning tool
$29.98 - Guy Software

Critical Path project management planning tool, an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft Project. Calculates Early Start, Late Start, Early Finish, Late Finish, Float (Slack) and identifies Critical Path activities. Calculates and summarizes resource costs. Shows all project data in a "spreadsheet" pattern for ease of understanding. Data may be manually entered or imported from a file or the clipboard. Independent re-sizeable and hideable windows show PERT views and Gantt (bar chart) views of the project in addition to the "spreadsheet" view. Activities and links may be set up and edited in either spreadsheet or PERT views or both at once, since all views are kept synchronized. Up to 1,000 activities. No limit on links per activity (within total of 1,000 links). Links may be Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start or Finish-to-Finish to handle overlapping activities. Links may have minimum time lags specified. Individual activities may have their dates "fixed". Pop up "working day" calendar with 200 year range. Easy to change working/non-working days. Activity durations and lags may be specified as either "working days" or "calendar days" - both types may be used in the same plan.~Scale of PERT and Gantt charts are adjustable both on-screen and for printing (to make best use of pages). Reports, PERT charts and Gantt charts may be either printed, or copied to the clipboard for pasting into other programs. Each project may have its own resources list, or master resource lists may be maintained for use across projects. Activities may be grouped into up to three levels, with resource cost summaries available at each level. On a network other users may have read-only access while one user has a file open for exclusive update. Pro version ($69.98 USD) adds features for use with larger plans and in a corporate environment, including resource levelling, costing, administrative detail and enhanced export facilities including the generation of HTML (web page) reports.

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