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Old July 27th, 2004, 05:44 PM
Johnny Lunchbucket
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Default Rounding a result

When using the PMT function to calculate a loan payment, the result I'm getting is a negative number with more than 2 decimal places.

-327.4347167 I am then taking the result, (which I have set to only 2 decimal places)
-327.43 and multiplying it by the numer of payments to calculate the total of 60 payments.
I'm getting -19,646.08 and it should be -19,645.80 This result I'm getting seems to be using is using those numbers that should have been rounded off.

How do I round off the result to a number with 2 decimal places and use only the rounded number to perform other calculations?

This is my example:
Interest_Rate - 3.05
Loan_months - 60
Loan_Amount - 18,200.00


Here's my formula to calculate the payment:
=PMT(Interest_Rate/12,Loan_Years,(Loan_Amount))

Here's my formula to calculate the total of payments:
=-Loan_Months*Scheduled_Monthly_Payment
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Old July 27th, 2004, 05:57 PM
Frank Kabel
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Default Rounding a result

Hi
you probably have only changed the format (the display).
To really round use
=ROUND(your_formula,2)

-----Original Message-----
When using the PMT function to calculate a loan payment,

the result I'm getting is a negative number with more than
2 decimal places.

-327.4347167 I am then taking the result, (which I have

set to only 2 decimal places)
-327.43 and multiplying it by the numer of payments to

calculate the total of 60 payments.
I'm getting -19,646.08 and it should be -19,645.80 This

result I'm getting seems to be using is using those
numbers that should have been rounded off.

How do I round off the result to a number with 2 decimal

places and use only the rounded number to perform other
calculations?

This is my example:
Interest_Rate - 3.05
Loan_months - 60
Loan_Amount - 18,200.00


Here's my formula to calculate the payment:
=PMT(Interest_Rate/12,Loan_Years,(Loan_Amount))

Here's my formula to calculate the total of payments:
=-Loan_Months*Scheduled_Monthly_Payment
.

 




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