Wednesday 24 August 2022

How to use RATE formula in excel

RATE formula used to get the rate of interest use to calculate the EMI amount from the 

main input i.e. Loan amount, EMI amount and Number of payments.

    Syntex

    =RATE (nper, pmt, pv, [fv], [type], [guess])


There were total six arguments in RATE formula, out ot which 3 were main arguements and 3 is optional arguments

Main Argument,
    nper - No of payments
    pmt  - Payments amount/EMI
    pv     - Present value/loan amount

Optional arguments,
    fv- Future value; by default it will be 0
    type - 0 or 1, 0 means for payment at the end of period and 1 means payment at the start of period; by default it will be 0
    guess - default to 10% 

Final answer of RATE formula is in %.

   Practice file download