Tag: effective interest rate

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Self-tutoring about spreadsheet functions: the tutor mentions intrate() in Google Sheets. The following is according to my understanding. The function intrate() calculates the effective interest rate for a buy-then-sell event. Its entry format is =intrate(date1,date2,value1,value2,[optional: day_count_convention]). The idea is that …

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A lifetime ago, the tutor studied financial planning.  That’s when he got acquainted with the HP-10B. Of the financial calculators I know, the Hewlett-Packard HP-10B is potentially the easiest to use. One feature of particular value to anyone in financial …

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