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Loan Amortization with Extra Principal Payments Using Excel

In the original amortization schedule tutorial I left out a feature that is of interest to a lot of people: adding extra principal payments in order to pay off the loan earlier than the loan contract calls for. In this tutorial we will add this feature. Before we get started let me mention one important thing: You can almost always…

Loan Amortization with Microsoft Excel

This is the first of a two-part tutorial on amortization schedules. In this tutorial we will see how to create an amortization schedule for a fixed-rate loan using Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheets (the next part shows how to handle extra principal payments and also includes a sample spreadsheet using this same example data). Almost all of this tutorial also…