2016 Summer Release New Feature Walk Thru
The MoneyTrax 2016 summer software release includes a myriad of updates and new features. Review the walk thru video for an itemized tour of each one.
Here's a list of what's changed:
- Spending Game FIND-IT updates
- New SOLVE-IT side panel control for FIND-IT summary. The SOLVE-IT tool automates many of the common tasks performed on the FIND-IT worksheet - giving you simple button click access to Retirement Ready or Not type solutions.
- Added comment capability to FIND-IT Desired Lifestyle Funding column.
- Added ability for FIND-IT to honor and persist customized account column widths.
- Added partial funding option to Fund Desired Income option of Withdrawal Wizard (FIND-IT view specific feature.)
- Spending Game reporting updates
- Added preliminary row filtering to report control panel which provides the ability to easily output common row subsets for reporting purposes. [First xx years], [Last xx years], [Every x years]
- Added Initial Values summary report.
- Added Reallocation Summary report.
- Added Cash Flow Utilization report - which reflects the concepts of the Wealth Potential vs. Expenditures chart in COW.
- Added FIND-IT (Annual Lifestyle Funding) report.
- Report formatting refreshed to improve pdf exports and provide report headers on comparison case data when applicable.
- Additional Updates
- Added Tax Rate Summary view and calculations to grossly estimate federal marginal and effective tax rates based on taxable income and filing status.
- Added Loan Drawdown column to Installment Loan account to facilitate the lump-sum withdrawal of funds from the loan as borrowed cash flow (applied at the beginning the year.) A typical use case for this feature would be college funding.
- Added Loan Principal Paydown column to Installment Loan account.
- Added optional floor constraint to Specified withdrawal in Withdrawal Wizard.
- Added retirement age row highlight option to Preferences->Display Settings.
- Added simple interest option for annuity account.
- Added ability to paste annuity e.o.y. balance values into annuity account type.
- Added "Use System Defaults" to column chooser layout options.
- Added Refresh Account Windows option to window menu. This option accelerates the process of realigning the open account window tabs to your account order.
- Added new ability to create case review copies that intelligently truncates initial model years.
- Reviewed replicated last-row data when adding new rows for all account types to ensure all were as complete as possible.
- Added Latest News RSS to SG startup page.
- COW document updates and additions: CP Quick Guide, Investors Journal worksheet, Lifestyle Spending worksheet.
- COW Help button returns to presenter window.
- Bugfixes
- Property account was not populating Proceeds CG or Proceeds TF.
- FIND-IT account column layout had issues when the first active account was hidden.
- PLI account properties side panel was not displaying accumulation value.
- SGv2 file import did not set cash surrender value for PLI account.
- PLI ILIT selection did not exclude death benefit from estate value summary.
- Cloned accounts were not recalculating the worksheet when first created (but would recalculate with first data change.)
- Changing the account owner AFTER setting starting/ending age did not reinitialize the cash flows for Inflow, Outflow, Term Insurance accounts.
- Modified COW page printing algorithm to resolve HP 13.33.0.2473 print driver issue.
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