Calculating a loan
PS.... I see that I failed to answer all of your questions. And I have been
having trouble posting a follow-up response.
On Jan 31, 10:43 am, I wrote:
For a US loan....
If A1 is the term in years, A2 is the annual rate, and A3 is the loan
amount, the monthly payment can be computed by (in A4, say):
=pmt(A2/12, A1*12, -A3)
[....]
Once you determine the __rounded__ payment amount, usually the final
payment is different from the others. You should recompute the number
of periods (in A5) and the final payment (assuming a full-term loan)
as follows:
=roundup(nper(A2/12, A4, -A3), 0)
=fv(A2/12, A5-1, A4, -A3)*(1 + A2/12)
On Jan 31, 10:15 am, "Guerilla" wrote:
I would also then like
the total repaid and the total interest displayed.
Suppose the final payment is in A6. Then the total repaid is (in A7):
=A4*(A5-1) + A6
The total interest is:
=A7 - A3
By the way, in comparing some loans (especially mortgages), you might also
need to take other things into account, such as points and prepaid interest
(for the initial odd period).
Ostensibly the APR is intended to be used to compare loans and avoid all of
this computation. But as you may know already, it is really a poor
comparator if you rely on the institution to specify the APR because there is
some latitude in what each institution chooses to include in their APR
computation :-(.
That said, if you are still interested in how to compute the APR, that is a
different question altogether; and to answer that again, we would need to
know the kind of loan (mortgage or not). Post again if you are interested.
But frankly, I think you were wise not to ask about it in the first place :-).
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