Manuals/calci/EFFECT

EFFECT(nomrate, npy)

where,

• $nomrate$ is the nominal interest rate, and
• $npy$ is the number of compounding periods per year.

EFFECT() calculates the effective annual interest rate.

Description

EFFECT(nomrate, npy)

• Arguments $nomrate$ and $npy$ should be positive numeric values.
• $nomrate$ should be >0 and $npy$ should be >1.
• For invalid arguments, Calci returns an error message.
• Formula: Effective interest rate $r$ is calculated as follows -

$r=(1+{\frac {nomrate}{npy}})^{npy}-1$

Examples

Consider the following example that shows the use of EFFECT function:

6%	8.5%
3	4

=EFFECT(A1,A2):  Displays 0.06120800000000015 as a result.
=EFFECT(B1,B2):  Displays 0.08774796172119137 as a result.
=EFFECT("6%",4): Displays 0.06136355062499965 as a result.

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See Also

• RATE
• INTRATE

References

• Effective Interest Rate

• List of Main Z Functions

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