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Creating an amortization schedule for a loan with variable interest that compounds 2x per year

Has anyone created an amortization schedule for a loan with a variable interest rate that also compounds 2x per year? The loan has a set payment amount (15k monthly), but because the interest is ...
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Additional principal payment split between interest and principal [duplicate]

I made an additional payment with my first mortgage payment but I noticed that although I designated the additional payment, say $10, as principal the remaining principal balance didn't go down by the ...
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Alternative (simplified) way of calculating loan repayments

I'm working on a small program to calculate, among other things, mortgage/credit repayments. Searching the internet I got what appears to be the typical repayment formula. principal 100,000 at 2% ...
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Subtract D&A is necessary

I read Warren Buffett and the interpretation of the financial statements, but depreciation and amortization thing still confuses me a lot. When I look at the Microsoft's income statement (i.e. https://...
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Why does the TD Bank principal portion of a mortgage payment go up and down in sawtooth? (why is interest payment on annuity in arrears non-monotonic)

I'm trying to understand the amortization schedules of TD mortgages, as produced by the TD Calculator. The monthly payment amounts (on this fixed rate mortgage) are predictable and constant, but the ...
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Is this a weekly compounding loan amortization schedule?

I am currently having a disagreement with my colleagues regarding whether a loan is compounding or not. I have linked below an image of a amortization schedule for a 52 week term for a $50,000 loan. ...
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How can I calculate amortized payment when the payments are made in advance?

I'm trying to calculate the payment amount on an amortized loan with interest where the payments are made in advance. If the payments are made in arrears there's a simple formula, but since the first ...
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Formula for calculating a reamortization

So my friend recently recasted/reamortized a loan. Initially, they had a principal loan balance of $13,000 at an interest rate of 5.99% over 7 years (84 months). They verified the loan company's ...
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How To Optimize Loan Payback?

Say I have a $100k 3% mortgage with min $1k payment, $10k 5% car loan with $100 min payment and $1k 20% credit card with $50 min payment. If I have $1500 to spend, I need to split that to pay back at ...
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Does partial prepayment on interest only loans goes towards principal

I am applying for 30 year term, 7/1 ARM with 10 year interest only loan. This is what I received from my lender: My question: During interest only period, if I make partial prepayments, does it ...
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Interest only mortgage with extra payment towards principle

I am planning to take 30 year term 10 year interest only mortgage. I know following are pros can cons of this approach: Pros: possible free money, especially given low interest rates lower payments (...
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Which method to amortize my single family rental and what else do I need to know?

I am renting out my primary residence (outside the US) for about $1400/mo., which method to amortize my single family rental on my 1040 and what else do I need to know to correctly amortize? I started ...
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Do bank use the same math formula to calculate the mortgage amortization table?

I've started making a spreadsheet to evaluate mortgages and how they would fit other financial plans. The most complicated part seems to be the mortgage calculation formula. That's the formula the ...
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Modeling wealth over time in a home [closed]

Suppose a person decides to buy a house and finance it by taking out a mortgage. I am attempting to model the wealth of this person over time. I need some help deciding whether this system of ...
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Remaining Balance Formula for Actual/360 and Actual/Actual Accrual Methods

Is there a concise formula for calculating the remaining balance of a loan with actual/360 and actual/actual accruals? I know for 30/360 amortizations, the remaining balance is just the FV of the ...
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Formula for time taken to pay off loan with annual interest and monthly repayments

I am trying to find how to work out the period of time it will take to pay off a loan. There are plenty of online calculators out there but I cannot find the formula they use. I want to recreate the ...
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What is a fair way to split the profits for a co-owned property?

Seeking out some financial guidance... My partner and I recently purchased a home with my sister and brother-in-law. All spaces will be shared with the exception of bedrooms. We will be meeting with ...
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Loan Amortization with first payment period less than others

I'm trying to make loan amortization schedule where Interest rate is calculated on the exact period dates. (installment dates taking into account weekends and public holidays) and with the first ...
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Interest and principal line-item amounts for seasonal mortgage

I'm working with this question: Seasonal Loan Amortization. I wondered if someone could elaborate how to calculate the principal and interest portions of the payments when they are paid. The article ...
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Is the principle payment in an amortization schedule the amount that goes towards how much of the house you own?

When I first learned of amortization schedules I was confused by the division of payments into "interest" and "principle". I think I get it now: isn't it that the principle payment ...
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How are fractional cents handled when bank create a loan payment schedule

I am working on developing my own loan payments schedule generator and I have a question regarding how fraction cents For example, this load: Principal: $10,000 Interest: 5% per year Period: 48 ...
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'principal balance' vs 'outstanding balance'

Is 'principal balance' same as 'Outstanding Balance'? My understanding is - In amortisation schedule, Outstanding balance gets reduced according to 'principal' portion of your monthly payment. After 6 ...
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What is the typical compounding/amortized period on US mortgage loans

In a different question it is stated that Mortgages are compounded .. 12 times a year in the USA Is this true or just applicable to that question? I am looking at a site where it explains how to ...
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How does depreciation deduction work in mortgages?

Home investors are said to be concerned that the depreciation deductions exceed mortgage amortization. This is because the depreciation remains flat but the amount of amortization rises, albeit slowly,...
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Paying USD 1000 towards the principal on my mortgage

I bought a home worth 200,000 paid 20% down, my interest rate is 4%, 30 yr fixed Remaining Loan 160,000. Initially, lets say I pay around 1000 USD (200 toward my principal and 800 towards my interest)....
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When I capitalize amortization table, the present value doesn't equal the sum of PV or the XNPV

How is it that when I capitalize an amortization table, the present value doesn't equal the sum of PV or the XNPV formula of all the future payments? If I capitalize the future payments with the same ...
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Refinance Cost is high

I got 30 years loan for 232K two years ago with interest rate of 4.25% and now I am planning to refinance again for 15 years. Financial company mentioned they can provide interest of 2.85% but the ...
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How does paying extra on my mortgage affect my amortization schedule?

I am a first time home buyer and have some spare cash after my home purchase to pay forward quite a bit of money (cash was not available during actual purchase, so, no, I could not have put it towards ...
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"Negative Amortization" Terminology

I want to better understand the term "negative amortization". For example, in the Graduated Payment Mortgage (GPM), people often say it usually has negative amortization as the loan balance increases ...
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Mortgage: Floating rate loan tenure extension on rate increase

I am trying to figure out how my bank has implemented re-pricing on my floating rate home loan. The original home loan was for an amount of ₹ 48 lakhs (₹ 4.8 Mn) at an annual rate of interest (RoI) ...
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Do extra mortgage payments typically go directly towards principal?

I have a 30 year mortgage and I'd like to make extra payments each month to speed up the amortization schedule. I thought this would be better than taking out a 15 year mortgage as it gives me some ...
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Buy 1 bed flat via private sell (Edinburgh, UK) - opportunity?

I am renting a flat (1 bed + box room) with my partner in 'central' Edinburgh. We pay £675 pcm. Our landlady wants to sell it urgently and she asks for £160,000. She is keen to sell it to us. A ...
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Future balance of loan balance [duplicate]

I would like to know if there is a formula that could tell me the future balance of a loan. For example, if I have a loan of 10,000 at 6% for 5 years and I do the amortization it brings that the ...
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How do I calculate APR from monthly instalments?

I have been given a quote for a car loan in Thailand. I want to calculate the APR but am not sure how. (All of the tools and explanations I’ve seen are going in the other direction, from a percentage ...
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Does the amortizing payment on a loan depend on whether interest is calculated daily or monthly?

Assume two banks offer a $100,000 mortgage at 6% annual interest for 30 years with payments due monthly. One bank assumes each month has 30 days. The other bank uses the actual number of days in ...
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Formula for previous months interest payment and balance - Reverse Amortization

I am trying to resolve an issue I am having where a system calculated incorrect additional payments on a loan for a couple of months, resulting in the new current balance being incorrect. I want to ...
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how to find flat rate of interest per annum and month if we have given reducing rate of interest or loan amount and tenure?

For example: For loan amount 500000 for 5 years at the rate of 12% (reducing interest rate), EMI is 11,122.22 per month Here 12% reducing is equivalent to flat 6.69% per annum or flat 0.55% per month. ...
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Calculating Interest with Compute Method as Canadian - Semiannual

i'm trying to validate a software Interest Calculation. The defaults given are as followed. Interval: Monthly Nominal Annual Rate: 10% Disbursal Amount: $500,000 Disbursal Date 01/01/2018 Payment ...
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Mortgage principal reduction

For a 30-year mortgage that started less than a year ago, how much will the monthly payment be after making an additional $100,000 payment towards the principal? The mortgage currently has a balance ...
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How to calculate payment and accrued interest on a mortgage when one payment missed (D30)?

How is the interest and principal payment calculated when mortgage has already missed one payment? Are the new payments calculated off the new balance (non-amortized balance) or the original scheduled ...
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How to calculate EMI for Quarterly, Half yearly and Annual payments and generate amortization schedule?

I am a software engineer by profession. I am a newbie to finance. I am trying to create a loan amortization schedule. I have the formula for EMI= P*(r*(1+r)^n)/((1+r)^n)-1. How to apply it for ...
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How to calculate interest on Monthly Effective loans where duration greater than compounding

I have an amortization software and trying to manually calculate the interest accrued it calculated. The Key values are: Compounding: Monthly Nominal Annual Rate: 10% Day Count: 365 Principal: 500,...
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Partially vs. Fully Amortized Loan

Isn't the article beneath wrong to interpret a Fully Amortized Loan as a loan with 7 years maturity? Isn't the correct comparator a Fully Amortized Loan with 30 years maturity, and 30 years ...
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Disposing of hardware item from current assets, is the reduction in assets posted to equity or special loss account?

I'm disposing of an old laptop that is broken and completely unusable. Let's say it was purchased for $1000 before taxes, already been accounted for in Current Assets since the date of purchase, and ...
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Calculating Amortization Payment Amount when first payment is early

How can I determine a fixed payment amount for a loan that has an early first payment? Example: Loan Amount: $100 Interest: 10% Loan Date: January 1st, 2018 First Payment Date: January 15th, ...
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What is the formula for loan payoff with daily compounded interest and annual payment?

I am trying to get the loan repayment amount for below data : Loan Amount: $20,412.65 Payments (#): 10 Annual Interest Rate: 2.5% Loan Date: 07/02/2018 First Payment Due: 09/02/2018 (next payment ...
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How can I amortize 4 rates over a 30 year term?

I've been offered a HELOC modification with the following terms: Beginning balance $148,148.59, Initial rate and term is 1% for 60 months at a pmt of $374.60, The 2nd term begins Jan of yr 6, at 2% ...
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What is the math used to calculate the impact that overpaying a mortgage has an an amortization table?

I'm in the classic 'pay extra on the house vs invest' argument with my partner (not the subject of this question) and I'm trying to understand what exactly happens when I pay extra on a mortgage. I ...
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Credit Card Amortization via Principal-Only Payments

On a home loan amortization schedule, I can make the monthly payment and add the principal-only owing for the "next" payment along with it, and avoid paying the interest for that next month, which ...
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How do equity, amortization, and market value factor into net profit on a sold house?

TL;DR: If I buy my first house at $500k using an FHA loan, and I want to eventually buy a $1MM home (with a conventional 20%-down loan), how do I calculate the time at which the sale of my first ...
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