Excel Finance Trick #7: EFFECT function (EAR Rate)

I need to write an Excel function that returns best price of a government bond.

The actual handwritten formula is quite complicated, impossible to display
here, and the input values for this formula are-----------------
Accrued days, Number of coupon period days, Days from settlement to next
coupon date, coupon periods per year, number coupon periods between
settlement & redemption, annual yield, discount rate.

Hi,

Can anyone explain the Rate function to me please? I'm trying to get an idea of the theory behind it.

I want to write tsql code to perform the same function.

Cheers

-Alan

Work four summers, starting at age 16

Save the income in a Roth IRA account

Invest it in a simple, low-cost equity portfolio

Simmer slowly for 47 years

Serve ungarnished (and untaxed) at age 67

If your money is invested in common stocks and you achieve the average
compound annual rate on large-capitalization U.S. stocks, 10.7%, your
account will grow to $9,378 at the end of the fourth year. You will be
20 years old. Invested in the same way, with no additional savings, the
account will grow to:
$25,917 by the time you are 30

$71,625 by the time you are 40

$197,943 by the time you are 50

$547,037 by the time you are 60

And $1,114,423 by the time you are 67

is there a function that will give me this answer without using
multiple rows and columns to calculate this.

Hey everyone I am new to programing in Excel and I do not know enough to wright a function that finds variance of a portfolio. This is what i have so far its messy and does not work.

Function VARPORT(Sa,Wa,Sb,Wb,Sc,Wc,Sd,Wd,Se,We)

va=VAR(Sa)
vb=VAR(Sb)
vc=VAR(Sc)
vd=VAR(Sd)
ve=VAR(Se)


cab=Covar(va,vb)
cac=Covar(va,vc)
cad=Covar(va,vd)
cae=Covar(va,ve)
cbc=Covar(vb,vc)
cbd=Covar(vb,vd)
cbe=Covar(vb,ve)
ccd=Covar(vc,vd)
cce=Covar(vc,ve)
cde=Covar(vd,ve)

VAPORT=((Wa^2)*va)+((Wb^2)*vb)+((Wc^2)*vc)+((Wd^2)*vd)+((We^2)*ve)+(2*Wa*Wb*cab)+(2*Wa*Wc*cac)+(2*Wa *Wd*cad)+(2*Wa*We*cae)+(2*Wb*Wc*cbc)+(2*Wb*Wd*cbd)+(2*Wb*We*cbe)+(2*Wc*Wd*ccd)+(2*Wc*We*cce)+(2*Wd*W e*cde)
End Function

The S stands for a list of stock returns.
The W is what percentage of the portfolio is spent on that stock.
The Covar and Var functions are to calculate the variance of each stock and the covariance between the five.
The three letters are C for covariance and then what stock will be looked at.

This is very confusing to me and I know I just made a big mess, can anyone help or point me int he right direction.

I need an excel formula to calculate the negative nominal rate of return given the negative effective rate and the number of compounding periods per year. Excel's NOMINAL and NPER functions do not work when a negative rate assumption is used resulting in a #NUM! error. The context for this is that I am using MS Excel to to investment analysis. I want to analyse the resulting value of an investment account balance when there is a negative effective rate and corresponding nominal rate of return (mimicing a declining value in a particular investment/account due to negative annual return on investment expressed as a negative annual effective rate of return but that is compounding monthly - and hence the need for the nominal rate and compounding periods). I need to use a calcualtion in Excel that gives me the negative nominal rate of return equivalent to the negative effective rate of return assumtion.

Please help and thank you in advance if you can solve this!

I want to calculate the survival rate/failure rate for a product. Usually I use weibull distribution (linear regression followed by the 'WEIBULL' function), but unfortunately the data I have simply won't work with my current methods.

I have 10 different groups of widgets.
Group 1 widgets were installed 1 year ago. A certain percentage of those widgets are failed.
Group 2 widgets were installed 2 years ago. A certain percentage of those widgets are failed.
...
Group 10 widgets were installed 10 years ago. A certain percentage of those widgets are failed.

There are far fewer 10-year widgets than 1-year widgets out there.

The catch is that I don't know if the group 1 widgets will survive year 2, or if year 2 widgets will survive year 3, etc.

I want to create a nice curve that tells me (approximately) how many years the average widget in my sample dies 50% of the time. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any ready-made formula in Excel for this. So I turn to you, brave Excel Board Members, to help me save myself from Math.

Please?

Hi there! I need a formula to calculate the negative nominal rate of return given the negative effective rate and the number of compounding periods per year . Excel's NOMINAL and NPER functions do not work when a negative rate assumption is used resulting in a #NUM! error. The context for this is that I am using MS Excel to to investment analysis. I want to analyse the resulting value of an investment account balance when there is a negative effective rate and corresponding nominal rate of return (mimicing a declining value in a particular investment/account due to negative annual return on investment expressed as a negative annual effective rate of return but that is compounding monthly - and hence the need for the nominal rate and compounding periods). I need to use a calcualtion in Excel that gives me the negative nominal rate of return equivalent to the negative effective rate of return assumtion.

Please help and thank you in advance if you can solve this!

When you are making a formula say

=A5 + A6+A7

when you are doing this in cell D423, it sometimes gets annoying to have to either type in A6 and A7 manually or to navigate to A6 and A7.

I know there is a key you can hold down after doing A5 that keeps you on A5 even after putting in the + sign, so that you don't have to navigate all the way back there.

I can't figure it out!

Does anyone know what this is?

Please help!!

Thanks,
Michael

Good morning,

trying to find out what to do with my spreadsheet and the formulas in it.

If you look into the file 369. I can get to the stage where it outlines the mismatch figure. In the example it is 6 Mismatches.

But I cannot seem to get the table belwo right. Everytime I try and copy past the formula, the first set of data is the one from the first line and then I get a #NUM error, due to the fact that there seems to be a number reoccurence somewhere.

I took the youtube tutorial, but even copying that formula did not work.

My table consist of 2 sets of 600 values each.

Can someone tell me why I am getting this error and help me resolve the issue that the result is an existing set of data?

THANK YOU

BayerStars23
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hi i have writtern the following in a comman button

sub trythis()
dim x as range
set x = range("b1:b20")
for each x in x
if x.text = "June" then
x.copy
end if
next x
end sub

I have in the range names of the month repeated randomly. June appears 6 times in the list

By executing the above code the last cell containing "June" gets into copy mode (the cell is filled with marchings ants effect). Although the loop goes through many cells containing "June" only the last cell containing "June" shows this effect, how extend this effect to all the cells containing the text "June".