Use Worksheet 11.1. Alison Conroy is early in her career and is now employed as the managing editor of a well-known business journal. Although she thoroughly enjoys her job and the people she works with, she would really like to be a literary agent. She would like to go on her own in about seven years and figures she'll need about $ 50,000 in capital to do so. Given that she thinks she can make about 9 percent on her money, use Worksheet 11.1 to answer the following questions. How much would Alison have to invest today, in one lump sum, to end up with $ 50,000 in seven years? Round the answer to two decimal places. $ If she's starting from scratch, how much would she have to put away annually to accumulate the needed capital in seven years? Round the answer to two decimal places. $ How about if she already has $ 5,000 socked away; how much would she have to put away annually to accumulate the required capital in seven years? Round the answer to two decimal places. $ Given that Alison has an idea of how much she needs to save, briefly explain how she could use an investment plan to help reach her objective.

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DETERMINING AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT CAPITAL
Financial goal:
	1.	Targeted Financial Goal (see Note 1)						$
	2.	Projected Average Return on Investments								%
A.	Finding a Lump Sum Investment:
	3.	Future Value Factor, from Appendix A
			based on		years to target date and a projected average
			return on investment of				%	1.000
	4.	Required Lump Sum Investment
			line 1 line 3					$ -
B.	Making a Series of Investments over Time:
	5.	Amount of Initial Investment, if any (see Note 2)						$
	6.	Future Value Factor, from Appendix A
			based on		years of target date and a projected average
			return on investment of				%	1.000
	7.	Terminal Value of Initial Investment
			line 5 line 6					$ -
	8.	Balance to Come from Savings Plan
			line 1 - line 7					$ -
	9.	Future Value Annuity Factor, from Appendix B
			based on		years to target date and a projected average
			return on investment of				%	0.00
	10.	Series of Annual Investments Required over Time
			line 8 line 9					$ -
Note 1:			The targeted financial goal is the amount of money you want to accumulate by some target date in the future.
Note 2:			If youre starting from scratchi.e., there is no initial investmententer zero on line 5, skip lines 6 and 7, and then use the total targeted financial goal (from line 1) as the amount to be funded from a savings plan; now proceed with the rest of the worksheet.