{"id":49108,"date":"2025-04-04T21:32:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49108"},"modified":"2025-04-05T23:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:44:59","slug":"excel-pduration-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-pduration-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel: pduration function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions pduration.<\/h2>\n<p>\nTo my understanding, Excel&#8217;s pduration(the_rate, amount1, amount2) function calculates the number of periods for an investment of amount1 to be worth amount2 at the_rate per period, compounded.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor instance, let&#8217;s imagine an investment of 2500 at rate 0.75% per month. How many months until it&#8217;s 7500? With Excel, one could use =pduration(0.0075, 2500, 7500) and receive the answer 147.0303 months.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/pduration-function-44f33460-5be5-4c90-b857-22308892adaf\">support.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions pduration. To my understanding, Excel&#8217;s pduration(the_rate, amount1, amount2) function calculates the number of periods for an investment of amount1 to be worth amount2 at the_rate per period, compounded. For instance, let&#8217;s imagine an investment &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-pduration-function\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excel: pduration function<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1583],"tags":[3610],"class_list":["post-49108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","tag-spreadsheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49113,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108\/revisions\/49113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}