I'm sick and tired of looking at canned Financial Calculators differing
results.
I want to calculate how long a fixed value of money will last based on a
"Current Value", "Interest rate", "withdrawl". I also want to do a month by
month table of the above can someone tell me if this is possible?

Paul

Paul,

Use
=NPER(0.07/12,-200,11731.39,0)

Think about it in terms of you holding a 7.0% mortgage note with a balance
of $11,731.39 and the borrower having to pay you $200 a month until the
mortgage was paid off. You would receive $200 each month for 72 months or 6
years.

Don



"Paul Ilacqua" wrote in message
...
I'm sick and tired of looking at canned Financial Calculators differing
results.
I want to calculate how long a fixed value of money will last based on a
"Current Value", "Interest rate", "withdrawl". I also want to do a month
by month table of the above can someone tell me if this is possible?

Paul

To do the month by month analysis, you need to prepare an amortization
table. While many templates exist for this, I always do my own.

You need five columns: Month, Opening Balance, Payment, Interest, Closing
Balance
Opening Balance = initial value of loan/investment on row 1or Closing
Balance from previous row
Interest = Opening Balance * Rate / #periodsperyear (12 in your case)
Closing Balance = Opening Balance - Payment + Interest

Copy down until Closing Balance gets to zero.

--
Regards,
Fred
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"Paul Ilacqua" wrote in message
...
I'm sick and tired of looking at canned Financial Calculators differing
results.
I want to calculate how long a fixed value of money will last based on a
"Current Value", "Interest rate", "withdrawl". I also want to do a month
by month table of the above can someone tell me if this is possible?

Paul

Fred,
Thanks so much... taht's just what I needed.
Paul
"Fred Smith" wrote in message
...
To do the month by month analysis, you need to prepare an amortization
table. While many templates exist for this, I always do my own.

You need five columns: Month, Opening Balance, Payment, Interest, Closing
Balance
Opening Balance = initial value of loan/investment on row 1or Closing
Balance from previous row
Interest = Opening Balance * Rate / #periodsperyear (12 in your case)
Closing Balance = Opening Balance - Payment + Interest

Copy down until Closing Balance gets to zero.

--
Regards,
Fred
Please reply to newsgroup, not e-mail


"Paul Ilacqua" wrote in message
...
I'm sick and tired of looking at canned Financial Calculators differing
results.
I want to calculate how long a fixed value of money will last based on a
"Current Value", "Interest rate", "withdrawl". I also want to do a month
by month table of the above can someone tell me if this is possible?

Paul