How to use PMT Formula in Excel – Excel Avon

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Why to use PMT Formula in Excel?

SUMMARY

In this post you can learn PMT Formula. PMT, one of the financial function.  The PMT formula using for figure out the future payments for a loan, assuming constant payments & constant interest rate. This article contains many easy to follow PMT formula.

Formula

=PMT (rate, nper, pv, [fv], [type])

 Arguments

rate – The interest rate for the loan.

nper -Total number of payments for the loan taken.

pv – total value of all loan payments now.

fv [optional ] – The future value. If fv is omitted, it is assumed to be 0 (zero), that is, the future value of a loan is 0.

type [optional ]  – The type of day count basis to use.

PMT Formula in Excel

So to use the angel formula, we have created an example in which we will take a loan of 500000 and find its EMI. So now we will apply the formula and find the EMI. As you guys can see we have some data like Annual Rate, Number of Month, Loan Amount.

PMT formula 1st image

So now we will apply the formula.

=PMT(C3/12,C5,-C7)

PMT Formula

Monthly Monthly Calculated. Pay $2261.36  per month as EMI.

last image emi formula

Notes

  • The payment returned by PMT includes principal and interest but will not include any taxes, reserve payments, or fees.

  • If we wish to find out the total amount that was paid for the duration of the loan, we need to multiply the PMT as calculated by nper.

  • #VALUE! error – Occurs when any of the arguments provided are non-numeric.

  • #NUM! error – Occurs when:

    • The given rate value is less than or equal to -1.

    • The given nper value is equal to 0.

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