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Much current advertising asks “How much savings will you need for your retirement?” One personal benefit for our students from this course should be to learn how to estimate such a future need and to calculate a cash flow to reach that goal. It should be obvious that if savings grow 4 % while the CPI increases 5 %, value has been lost.
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Chadderton, R.A. (2015). An Example “Retirement” Planning Calculation. In: Purposeful Engineering Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18848-5_10
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