Hello, how are you.

could you please help me to solve these excel exercises, they are so difficult for me, I don't know what formulas to use.

A standard auto loan. For each of the 48 monthly payments compute the items in the table: Beginning Balance, Payment,
Interest portion of the Payment, etc ... Use Excel's Payment function (PMT), and be careful about relative and absolute
cell references. The payment, of course, will be the same for all months.

A detail: interest rates are usually quoted on an annual basis. But here the payments are monthly. How will you account for
this when you reference the interest rate?

If you do this cleverly, you can specify the first two rows, then make one big copy for the other 46 rows.

Amount $25,000.00 Interest Rate 6% Months 48 Beginning Balance Payment Amount Interest Principal Reduction Ending Balance 1 25,000.00 2 3 etc Total Interest Total Principal ================================================== ========== Prepare a Purchases Budget for Grunk that reflects a Cost of Merchandise Sold (Cost of Goods Sold, Cost of Sales) of 60% and a required ending inventory of 65% of the next months sales. Beginning inventory is$50,000.
Sales for January of next year are estimated to be $365,000 Jan Feb Sales$300,000

Cost of
Mrch Sold

Ending
Inventory

Beginning
Inventory 50,000

Required
Purchases
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Prepare a Cash Receipts Budget for Grunk based on its historical cash collection patterns:

50% in the month of sale.
40% in the month following the sale.
10% two months following.

January collections will include $80,000 from the previous December and$20,000 from November.
February collections will include $20,000 from the previous December. Jan Feb Sales$300,000

Cash Collections:

Month of
Sale

Month $80,000 Following 2 Months$20,000 20,000
Following

Total
================================================== ==========

Create a Cash Disbursements Budget for Grunk based on historical patterns:

40% of payments are made in the month of purchase.
60% of payments are made in the month following.

January payments are expected to include \$60,000 from December purchasing activity.

Jan Feb

Required
Purchases

Cash Payments:

Month of
Purch

Month 60,000
Following

Total
Paymnts
==========================================

thank you.

2. First, please notice that Excel has documentation all along the way. Just type "=pmt(". As soon as you type the left parenthesis, you should get a picture of available parameters. The same with many others. Try "=fv(". It's great stuff and should help you on your way.

The deterimination of what to do with mismatched interest crediting and payments MUST be specified in the problem statement or you should have a very good argument if you get it wrong on an exam. Generally, unless you are an insurance company, interest rates are reported as the rather useless NOMINAL Annual rate. That's all fine, but you must know about compounding in order to get the right answer. It also helps to know a little about common practices. For example, auto loans often report nominal annual and take payments monthly. For auto loans, simply dividing the nominal annual rate by 12 will do. If this sort of thing is not given in the problem statement, you state it clearly before proceeding. This will give you power when you argue the point with the grad student who marked it wrong.

In your case, enter simply "=pmt(0.06/12,48,25000,0,0)"

0.06/12 is the monthly interest.

48 is the number of months. Notice that this is 4*12 = 48

25000 is the beginning balance

0 is the final balance. This is good for "salvage" questions. If there is no salvage value, or if the loan is completely paid off, you can use "0" or simply omit the value.

0 is an option switch. Uusually, you can forget about it as a "0" or nothing means payments are at the end of each period. sometimes you want payments at the beginning of the period and this will require a "1" in the fifth paramenter.

3. ## thank you.

Thank you so much tkhunny, I appreciate your help, but I still don't understand, I suck at excel, could you please tkhunny go to this website Untitled Document and solve for me the exercises titled "special ll" and mail the answers to my email camachi@hotmail.com I solved special problems I, but I just can't solve the second set of exercises, they are the same exercises I already typed. But probably you could understand them better if you see them in an excel sheet. Please Tkhunny help me.

4. Originally Posted by jhonwashington
Thank you so much tkhunny, I appreciate your help, but I still don't understand, I suck at excel, could you please tkhunny go to this website Untitled Document and solve for me the exercises titled "special ll" and mail the answers to my email camachi@hotmail.com I solved special problems I, but I just can't solve the second set of exercises, they are the same exercises I already typed. But probably you could understand them better if you see them in an excel sheet. Please Tkhunny help me.
As opposed to learning how to do it and doing the problems yourself?? Sheesh!

-Dan