Margill Loan Manager – Principal and Interest forecast
Question:
I need to break down the due payment for the next fiscal into Due payment interest portion total and Due payment principal portion.
Answer:
If you are on version 4.3 and above (go to https://www.margill.com/get to download) go to Reports > Personalized Reports > Record List (Customized) with Period Breaks.
1) Report template
Click on New, name your report and select the fields from the left.
In the example below I selected the Borrower Business and Loan ID to identify each loan.
Then I selected, under the “Interest” theme, the “Interest Accrued (for period)”. We call it “Accrued” but in fact, for projections it is TO BE accrued. I will rename my column header to “Interest – Forecast” (see below).
Finally, select, under the “Principal’ theme “Principal Accrued (including any transaction on the report Start Date)(for period)” – renamed to “Principal – Forecast”.
Report template is now complete.
2) Actual report
First select the desired Records from the Main window and go to Reports > Personalized Reports > Record List (Customized) with Period Breaks.
This report will break down the principal and interest by month, quarter or year. So you can do short and long term projections – short term for 12 months broken down by month and short/medium/ long term over 5 years.
Now run the report which may take few minutes (thousands of calculations are done!). You then get results that can be shown in a variety of ways (horizontal, vertical and summaries). You can even show Totals.
Summary view below: