Debt Reduction Calculator

Debt Reduction Calculator
https://www.vertex42.com/Calculators/debt-reduction-calculator.html © 2007-2024 Vertex42 LLC
Balance Date: 10/1/2019
Creditor Information Table

Row Creditor Balance Rate Payment Custom
1 Card #1 4,400.00 13.00% 50.00 2
2 Auto Loan #1 3,200.00 9.81% 30.00 1
3 Auto Loan #2 5,000.00 12.00% 55.00 3
4 Card #2 9,000.00 13.50% 110.00 5
5 Student Loan #1 4,900.00 4.00% 25.00 4
6
7
8
9
10
Total: 26,500.00 270.00
Monthly Payment: 500.00 #NAME?

Initial Snowball: #NAME? #NAME?
Strategy: Snowball (Lowest Balance First) ← Choose a strategy

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Original Months to Month Paid
Creditors in Chosen Order Interest Paid
Balance Pay Off Off
Card #1 4,400.00 #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?
Auto Loan #1 3,200.00 #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?
Auto Loan #2 5,000.00 #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?
Card #2 9,000.00 #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?
Student Loan #1 4,900.00 #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Total Interest Paid: #NAME? Debt Free: #NAME?
Results are only estimates
Snowball Growth Chart

$1.00
Snowball
$0.90
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$0.80
$0.70
$0.60
$0.50
$0.40
$0.30
$0.20
$0.10
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Strategies
© 2007-2024 Vertex42 LLC Snowball (Lowest Balance First)
Avalanche (Highest Interest First)
Order Entered In Table
No Snowball
Custom - Highest First
Interest-only Custom - Lowest First
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26.16
50.00 Instructions
101.25 See the Help worksheet
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- To list more creditors, you can get the
- extended version available on the Debt
- Reduction Calculator web page.
- Get the Extended Version
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← Choose a strategy
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Debt Snowball Payment Schedule © 2007-2024 Vertex42 LLC
Results are only estimates. Edit only the yellow cells. https://www.vertex42.com/Calculators/debt-reduction-calculator.html
Strategy: Snowball (Lowest Balance First)

Monthly Payment: #NAME?
Creditor: Card #1 Auto Loan #1 Auto Loan #2 Card #2 Student Loan #1

Balance: 4,400.00 3,200.00 5,000.00 9,000.00 4,900.00 - - - - -
Rate: 13.00% 9.81% 12.00% 13.50% 4.00% - - - - -
Base Payment: 50.00 30.00 55.00 110.00 25.00 - - - - -
Months to Pay Off: #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? - - - - -
Month Paid Off: #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?
Total Interest: #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? - - - - -
Error Code: #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? . . . . .
Total Interest: #NAME?
Monthly Payments Balance AFT

Student Loan END
No. Month Snowball Additional Card #1 Auto Loan #1 Auto Loan #2 Card #2
#1 BALANCE
Oct-19 26500.00
1 Nov-24 #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? - - - - - 26741.41
2 Dec-24 #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? - - - - - #NAME?
### #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME? - - - - - #NAME?
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HELP
© 2007-2024 Vertex42 LLC
Getting Started
Visit the debt reduction calculator web page and watch the demo video.
https://www.vertex42.com/Calculators/debt-reduction-calculator.html
Step 1: Complete the Creditor Information Table. Read the section "Using the Debt Reduction
Calculator" on the above web page. Look for more information about each column in the
table header's
Step 2: Enter cell comments.
a Total Monthly Payment. See the cell comment for more information.
Step 3: Choose a Payoff Strategy. The various strategies are explained below.
Debt Reduction Strategies
Lowest Balance First: Gives you the benefit of the snowball effect, but you may pay
more interest in the end than Highest Interest First. The main benefit of this approach is
the psychological
Highest effect This
Interest First: of seeing
strategy the results
numberinofthe debts
lowestdisappear more quickly.
total interest, but depending
on the balance of your higher interest loans, it may take you longer to see your first
loan/debt
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or cutting and pasting, and
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if you insert a row above row and1 or after row
10, the formulas
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Select messed
this option up.if you want to see how long it will take to pay off the
debts without maintaining a constant monthly payment. In some cases, you may find it
will take more thanor30Custom-Lowest:
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caninmanually
the spreadsheet).
control the order the debts are
paid by entering numbers or formulas in the Custom column. For example, if you enter
Other Tips the
andvalues
Information
1,2,3,5,4 then rows 4 and 5 will be swapped. You can enter your own
formulas as well, whatever they might be.
Minimum Payments: This calculator does not provide the option of making only the
minimum monthly payments on credit cards or lines of credit. See tip #3 below.
Tip 1: If you want to use the Lowest Balance First method and you have two debts that
are close to the same balance but have very different interest rates, you may see a
substantial
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that you pay off the lower balance first. This may make very little difference in the total
interest, but it can make you feel better faster.
Tip 3: Update the Creditor Information Table every few months. Your minimum
payments may change over time as the balance in your accounts change, or if your
interest
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PaymentSchedule
Additional Help
worksheet.
The link at the top of this worksheet will take you to the web page on vertex42.com that
talks about this template.
REFERENCES
SEE ALSO Vertex42.com: Credit Card Payoff Calculator
SEE ALSO Vertex42.com: Money Management Template

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Balance Date: 10/1/2019

Creditor Information Table

Monthly Payment: 500.00 #NAME?

Strategy: Snowball (Lowest Balance First) ← Choose a strategy

Snowball Growth Chart

Strategy: Snowball (Lowest Balance First)

Creditor: Card #1 Auto Loan #1 Auto Loan #2 Card #2 Student Loan #1

Total Interest: #NAME?

Monthly Payments Balance AFT

Debt Reduction Strategies

SEE ALSO Vertex42.com: Credit Card Payoff Calculator

SEE ALSO Vertex42.com: Money Management Template

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