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This Excel lambda function demonstrates a use of recursion in a financial context to calculate effective interest
/*
INTRATE.EFFECTIVE
Calculates the effective interest rate using a simplified assumption.
The intent here is to show an example of recursion in a financial function.
Inputs:
- opening_balance – the opening balance of some period of interest
- base_rate – the base rate of the instrument
- [interest] – OPTIONAL – this is used by the recursion to pass the calculated interest back into the formula to calculate the closing balance (and therefore average balance) during each iteration. Generally speaking, this should not be used when using this function to call from the downs
Please watch this video:
https://youtu.be/k5rG_MvIWWs
Explanatory post:
https://www.flexyourdata.com/blog/excel-lambda-intrate-effective-calculate-effective-interest-rate-in-excel-without-iterative-calculation/
*/
INTRATE.EFFECTIVE = LAMBDA(opening_balance, base_rate, [interest],
LET(
_int, IF(ISOMITTED(interest), 0, interest),
_new_close, opening_balance + _int,
_avg_balance, AVERAGE(opening_balance, _new_close),
_new_int, _avg_balance * base_rate,
_effective_rate, IF(
ROUND(_new_int, 2) = ROUND(_int, 2),
_new_int / opening_balance,
INTRATE.EFFECTIVE(opening_balance,base_rate,_new_int)
),
_effective_rate
)
);
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