SOA Calculator feedback

lexa34

Hi,

Thanks for doing this!

I am part of the way through it and find I need to go get more info so not sure how this will help! Also some debts i.e gas bill may not have any interest initially.

Somethings are weekly, monthly and yearly is there anyway of incorporating this this the budget planner or have I just not got that far yet!!?!

Thanks

Clariman

angelflower wrote: »

I've just used the calculator for the first time and thought it was fantastic. You have basically cut down the amount of time it would take me to produce at home from about 2 hours to 5 minutes!!!

Thanks Angelflower. I'm glad that it is making it easier . Apologies for not replying to your post earlier - for some reason or other I missed it.

can you export into another format ie excel/word so someone can use to produce a neat document for sending to creditors?

It doesn't export into other formats, but you can format it needly for a Word document. If you use the Format for Print button and then copy the contents of that window into a Word document or an email, it lays out neatly. The Format for Print can also be pasted into Excel but you might need to juggle it around a bit to get it to look decent.

I like the idea of adding in a snowball calculator tool which can be used for the more serious mse'rs around

It's on my To Do list as a possible.

can we save details then add in new details but still be able to review the situation from past to present (and also predict dfd etc?)

As it stands at the moment, you can save the SOA calculator data but it doesn't do any predicting of debt-free days nor comparing past to present. If I added Snowball function in, then it would use the existing SOA data but the user would have to add in some more detail to provide everything that I'd need to calculate the snowball plan. Does that answer your question?

oh and p.s. Is there anyway you can make it say that my incomings are more than my outgoings??? :rolleyes:

Only you can get it to do that

Clariman

Clariman

lexa34 wrote: »

I am part of the way through it and find I need to go get more info so not sure how this will help! Also some debts i.e gas bill may not have any interest initially.

I'm not sure what you are asking here lexa?

Somethings are weekly, monthly and yearly is there anyway of incorporating this this the budget planner or have I just not got that far yet!!?!

If you are referring to the SOA Calculator, then you have to enter all your income and expenses as monthly values. So if you have weekly bills, then multiply them by 4 (4.33 to be more accurate!) to make them monthly. For annual bills, divide them by 12.

The SOA Calculator is a type of budget planner but its focus is specifically to help those in debt. MSE has its own Budget Calculator which is more general, but does allow you to enter bills as annual etc and then works out the monthly amount for you. I guess I could add this in to the SOA calculator but it would make the form more complex.


Clariman

Neon_Eye

Maybe I should try this one. Thanks