IVM with Excel Assignment: There are two major goals for this assignment: (1) to demonstrate your understanding and the correct application of Time Value of Money concepts in a financial problem-solving situation, and (2) to demonstrate your ability to use the TVM functions of Excel. This is intended to be a short assignment - solving the problem shouldn't take more than 3045 minutes, plus a little more perhaps to make it look nice. When Yvonne was twelve, her grandfather gave her $6,000 to be used for college. Yvonne was a good student and dreamed of going to a good school, so she invested the gift in a 10 -year bank CD earning 6%%. She recelved a generous scholarshlp and never needed to use the money from her grandfather. After graduating from college at age 22, she began working at a great job. Knowing the value of early investing. she began saving for retirement right away. When the CD matured, she put it into an investment account earning 7% and made an additional annual investment of $1,500 every January 15. She also opened an IRA account and put $2,000 into it every year on January 1 t and over the years it earned a steady 5%. Now Yvonne is 45 and thinking she'd like to retire early at age 55 . At age 65 she'll get an extremely generous corporate pension, which along with Social Security payments will allow her to live very well indeed. She believes that with clever investing strategies both of her accounts will be able to earn 6.5% from age 45 to 65 and beyond. She plans to continue making the same annual contributions to her accounts until retirement. What Yvonne wants to know is whether her retirement savings will be able to provide enough income each year to allow her to live comfortably until age 65 when the pension kicks in. 1. How much was the CD worth when she transferred it into that investment account? 2. How much is the investment account worth now? 3. How much is the IRA account worth now? 4. How much will she have accumulated when she takes early retirement? 5. How much will she be able to withdraw each January 1 1n if she takes early retirement? Guidelines: 1. Number and briefly explain each of your steps showing your work and answers to all five questions 2. Show your inputs for each step using the TVM functions of Excel, not the financial calculator 3. Laying out your solution using a timeline may help you visualize the cash flows better 4. Follow the facts as given in the narrative, but list any additional assumptions you make 5. Complete the solution using Excel (.xls or .xlsx) - no other software/file format is acceptable 6. Upload your solution file through the assignment link (Must be a functional Excel sheet). 7. I must be able to easily follow and replicate your work-points off if I have to struggle with it
