RETIRE PROGRAM  by G.A.Bunson

                Distributed by GABE Software
                               1350 Camino Manadero
                               Santa Barbara CA 93111

DESCRIPTION

RETIRE is a versatile, easy to use, retirement planning tool.It offers 
a simple way to to take a look at personalized retirement prospects. 
The user can project retirement income based on company savings plans, 
IRA's, personal savings, Social Security and various pension plans. 
The unregistered version for which no registration fee is asked 
provides input for a single life annuity pension as offered by most 
company plans. The registered version will allow input and compare 
advantages and disadvantages for the user for 17 pension options 
including the joint and 100% survivor options.

The user is prompted to enter his projected retirement living 
expenses, and then finds out how long his savings will last. Income 
taxes, planned future expenditures and cash collections are provided 
for. The effects of an early death , or extremes in inflation rate are 
easily shown. The  documentation is complete.

REQUIREMENTS IBM PC or equivalent, 256k 

REGISTRATION Those who register for $29.95 will receive a 5 1/4 disk 
which will process and compare up to 17 types of retirement pension 
options such as temporary modified cash, Social Security adjusted 
options, etc and will match them to the users personal situation.

FILE DESCRIPTIONS

RETIRE.EXE    main program
PRINTOUT.EXE  utility printout program
MARTAX.SCH, SINTAX.SCH, 10YRTAX.SCH   tax tables
ACTTAB.DAT    actuary tables
GO.BAT        prints start up instructions
DOC.BAT       prints documentation text 
***.TXT       text files

NOTE: PERDAT.DAT and PERSTR.DAT are personalized data files created by 
the program. They store personal financial data input by the user so 
that it does not have to be re-entered each time the program is run.