Do any of you guys use Microsoft Excel or anything like that when doing financial planning? Like for example having an excel spread sheet where you type in clients income, and income when retired

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Like P1, I use it a lot. I can create the same graphics the expensive software does for basically free.

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Yea. I built a debt reduction calculator on Excel, also a Custom Balance Sheet template and a Cash Flow Analysis page, lastly an Implementation Checklist template ALL on Excel for use in my financial plans.

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