I will start off by saying that this template only works with Excel 2013 or higher, because we need to use slicers with a table. This dashboard template might be of interest to the CFO or financial analyst that prepares the monthly presentations for the board, finance or ALCO (Asset/Liability Management ) committees. Loans and deposits make […]

A few posts back we looked at Holding Period Return On Option-Free Fixed Income Securities. I thought we could take that one step further, and show horizon analysis for a bond swap. In order to help explain the calculator, I have divided the analysis into three sections and placed a rounded triangle around each one. The blue […]

I put this spreadsheet together to tell me when the city is going to sweep my street. Obviously, you get a parking ticket if you leave your car parked on the street on those days. The street sweeping days for me are the 1st and 4th Thursday of each month. There are other reasons to have […]

Back in January of this years I wrote a post (Mortgage Pool – Holding Period Return) accompanied by a spreadsheet, on how to calculate the holding period return and the internal rate of return, when buying and selling a pool of mortgages. This post uses the same logic, but is applied to option-free fixed income notes and bonds. I […]

In my last post I talked about how important it is for boards to pay attention to financial ratios and I provided a dashboard to keep track of  the most important ratios. It is also important to follow the trends in these financial rations. Are they getting better or worse? To that end I am providing […]

When I first retired from the position of CFO, I thought I might try and help boards of directors of smaller financial institutions, that may not have a financial background, better understand their obligation to ask management the right questions. Typically, boards are given large board reports with dozens of pages of financial information, with one or […]