Chapter 25. Using Financial Functions

In this chapter

Examples of Common Household Loan and Investment Functions 592

Examples of Functions for Financial Professionals 598

Examples of Depreciation Functions 603

Functions for Investment Analysis 609

Examples of Functions for Bond Investors 615

Examples of Miscellaneous Financial Functions 627

While the bulk of Excel’s financial functions are for professional financiers and investors, there are a few functions that are useful for anyone planning to use a loan to purchase a car or house. The examples in this chapter represent a small subset of the calculations possible with Excel’s financial functions.

Table 25.1 provides an alphabetical list of all of Excel 2007’s financial functions. Detailed examples ...

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