This article provides example scenarios and explains various approaches for calculating the time value of money using Microsoft Excel. The Excel tools discussed herein include the FV, FVSCHEDULE, PV, ...

Microsoft Excel offers four inherent functions for calculating the monthly payments, present value, number of payments and the interest rate of an annuity.

When teaching financial accounting, faculty often discuss bonds payable and how to calculate the issue price of a bond. Consider teaching students to calculate the issue price by using the net present ...

These values total to $19,250. Now let us assume a discount rate of 15 percent. Using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, we could calculate the PV as follows, assuming that the current year is 2007.

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