In Excel 2010: Financial Functions in Depth author Curt Frye shows how to perform a wide range of financial calculations quickly and easily using the many financial functions found in Excel 2010. The course details dozens of functions for evaluating cash flows; calculating depreciation; determining rates of return, bond coupon dates, and security durations; and more. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Analyzing loans, payments, and interest
• Discovering the interest rate of an annuity
• Determining depreciation using the straight line, declining balance, double-declining balance, and other methods
• Calculating the future value of an investment with variable returns
• Finding the discount rate of a security
• Converting between fractional prices and decimal prices
• Determining the yield of securities that pay interest periodically

Author:

Curt Frye is the president of Technology and Society, Incorporated.

He is the author of more than 40 books, including Microsoft Excel 2019 Step by Step for Microsoft Press, and has created and recorded more than 60 courses for Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning. As a speaker, he has presented talks on topics including “Rhetorical Mathematics” for CLE credit at the Law and Magic conference, “Business Storytelling Using Microsoft Excel” at the ATD-Cascadia annual conference, and his Improspectives® approach to applying the techniques of improv theater to business and life for numerous audiences. As a performer, he has appeared in over 1,300 improv comedy shows with ComedySportz Portland and presents his Magic of the Mind show to theatrical and corporate audiences. Curt earned his BA in political science from Syracuse University and his MBA from the University of Illinois.