{{tag>Index Function Function_List Financial}} ====== PMT ====== ===== Description ===== Calculates payment to be made each period ===== Parameters ===== - Rate – interest rate per period (in percents, 50% is 0.5). - Nper – total number of payment periods in an annuity - Future value (optional) – future value or the cash balance that is attained after the last payment is made. If omitted assumed to be 0 - Present value (optional) – present value or the lump-sum amount that a series of future payments is worth right now. If omitted assumed to be 0 - Type (optional) – indicates when payments are due. 0 or omitted – at the end of the period; 1 – at the start of the period ===== Example ===== PMT (0.08, 12 * 20, 500, 0, 0)