This Technology Workshop illustrates how to leverage a number of functions to perform calculations in Excel involving the time value of money.

When planning for retirement, you need to account for the value of any annuities that you own. Trouble is, there’s not just one value of an annuity—there are two: present value and future ...

Here's how to calculate the present value of a perpetual annuity that promises to pay flat or growing annual payments with helpful examples.

Microsoft Excel offers four inherent functions for calculating the monthly payments, present value, number of payments and the interest rate of an annuity.

Sum all present values to find the total value of projected cash flows, which in this example is $326.

Learn what Value at Risk is, what it indicates about a portfolio, its pros and cons, and how to calculate the VaR of a portfolio using Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel has dozens of preset formulas for many types of mathematical calculations, but compounding interest isn't one of them. To calculate the future value of a single amount compounded ...