Loan Payments And Amortization Schedule Worksheet

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MATH 105 Lab -- Loan payments and amortization schedules
The goal of this lab is to build and use a template for calculating amortized loan payments and to
construct an amortization schedule for a loan. You also compare an amortized loan with a simple
interest loan.
Problem 1. Sample amortization loan situation:
Suppose you obtain a 4-year car loan for $12,000 at 9.4% annual interest. What
are your monthly payments? How much total interest do you pay? How much
interest do you pay the first year?
The answers to the questions above can be obtained from the worksheet constructed in steps (a)
and (b) below.
a. Build the worksheet indicated below. Notice that it has three sections - one for assumptions,
one for calculations, and an amortization table.
A
B
C
D
E
F
1 Problem 1
2
3
4 Loan Amt
12000
5 Rate/yr
0.094
6 #Pmt/yr
12
7 Term(yrs)
4
8
9 Rate/period =B5/B6
10 Tot.No.Pmt
=B6*B7
11 Pmt
=pmt(B9,B10,-B4)
12 Full cost
=B11*B10
13 Tot interest
=B12-B4
14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15
Interest
Balance
Unpaid
Interest
16 Pmt #
Pmt
in Period
Reduction Balance
cum
17
=B4
18 =A17+1
=$B$11 =E17*$B$9 =B18-C18 =E17-D18 =F17+C18
19
b. Copy the range A18..F18 to the range A19..A65. Note the trick in cells A18 and cells F18 to
obtain the first term. The table in cells A15.. F65 is called an Amortization Table or schedule.
Notice that the PMT function computes the payment to be made during each period and that the
total interest is obtained by subtracting the loan amount from the Full cost (total amount paid).

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