Contents of the Compounding the Annual Budget Dialog Box

Use the fields on the Compounding the Annual Budget dialog box to compound annual budget amounts based on a percentage or a monetary amount.

You cannot compound by percent and amount simultaneously. Each time that you click Apply, you adjust by only the value in the corresponding field.

Field Description
Percent Enter a percentage. To calculate the budget for each period, Vantagepoint increments each period amount by the percentage that you enter.

Vantagepoint does not perform the calculation until you click Apply.

Amount Enter a monetary amount. To calculate the budget for each period, Vantagepoint increments each period amount by the amount that you enter.

Vantagepoint does not perform the calculation until you click Apply.