More on rate-finding
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 6 Comments »In responding to a question in blog comments about rate-finding, I noticed that the calculator didn't behave well if the Payment Amount could not pay off the loan after the Number of Regular Payments had elapsed, no matter how low ...
Mmm, more stylesheet goodness
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 6 Comments »For those of you who like hard copies of your amortization schedules, I have produced a new stylesheet which should make printing the schedule a little less ugly than it may have been before. I still wish there was ...
The Trials of Moving
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | No Comments »Well, it has happened. What I have feared the most. Calamity. Pain. Suffering. Ego-shattering. In moving the calculator to its new home, it lost its long-held rank as the number one result for the search “amortization” on Google. It is ...
Negative Amortization
Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | No Comments »I've added a new entry to the FAQ regarding negative amortizations. In the process, I also noticed that some of the summary information produced by the calculator and final schedule row are not completely consistent in the NegAm scenario. ...
Fixing the Fix
Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | No Comments »I improved a test for an error condition yesterday. If one tries to find out how long it will take to pay off a loan (i.e., the Number of Payments field is blank), but the Regular Payment amount specified ...
The First Port
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 2 Comments »As of July 2nd, 2008, the Amortization Calculator was officially moved from its old location in the Meteorology Department of Florida State University to this website. The primary impetus for the move is that the aging machine on which ...
