

But if you take the time to understand what these functions are doing you can often use them in other ways.Īs we pointed out, all functions in Calc take arguments and in this case as you might expect the arguments would have to do with interest rates, principle amounts, time periods, and payment amounts. The thing you need to bear in mind about these is that they are all oriented to doing financial analysis on investments.

So it should not come as great surprise that there are many great financial functions in Calc. And the reason for that was that you could do sophisticated financial analysis with spreadsheets. As we discussed back when we first looked at spreadsheets, they were the killer app that lead to wide-spread adoption of PCs in companies.
