This worksheet just might make calculating things like loan payments, the amount that could be borrowed, the interest rate, etc. a little easier than the HP-12C calculator, with Reverse Polish Notation, you have been holding onto for the last 30 years. Their are five inputs to the...
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There has been an addition to the spreadsheet, explained in the post: Simplified Linear Interpolation of Treasury Rates Back in the day, when I was building a pricing model for mortgages that would be sold to FNMA, I ran into a problem with their pricing...
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Most banks and credit unions offer payday loans. So do many check cashing stores and online sites. You can find payday loan calculators online, but as far as I can find, they don’t give the option of telling you if the fee or interest charged...
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Long before I wrote user defined functions for valuing servicing on a pool of mortgages, I developed amortization tables to understand the cash flows and proof my VBA. The amortization schedule provided below is not the typical amortization. It has a number of uses besides explaining the...
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After the end of the year, it is time to start thinking about budgets and goals. It is also time to set goals for next years bonuses. The linked Excel workbook shows six year- end objectives (targets), along with a threshold and a stretch for each goal. The threshold is a level...
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I ran into this problem in accounting. A workbook was being generated by the general ledger that created separate sheets for each ATM, with dates and deposits. There were a total of 19 ATMs. Individual dates for each sheet were in column A and amounts in column...
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You might have already used the XNPV built-in Excel function for calculating the present value of a stream of cash flows with dates. How about XNFV for future value? Wait a minute. There is no XNFV. It would have been easy to include an XNFV function,...
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