Financial Goals
Imagine you want to take a vacation (a cruise with your good friends in 2 years) and you will need $3,000 to cover your trip.
If you put this money into an account that earns 3% per year, how much should you put in each month?
Let’s use one of our handy financial calculators to figure this out.
- Set the future value for your goal to $3000
- Set the interest rate to 3%
- Set the time to 24 months
- Solve for the monthly savings needed
- How much will it take each month to get that down payment?
- Check your answer here
Okay, now that we know how to do this, how about you try this for one of your goals? 
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Share your goal with us. Keep us posted on how you are doing. You can enter it here.
Use the calculator to figure out how much to save.
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