Excel Skills Simplified: Tutorials That Actually Work
Need to calculate how many days have elapsed since the last coupon payment on a bond in Excel? The COUPDAYBS function lets you find the number of days from the previous coupon date to the settlement date without manually counting calendar days. This guide shows you how, step-by-step.
Manipulating dates and times in Excel using VBA opens up a world of automation and custom functionality that goes far beyond what standard worksheet functions can offer. While Excel itself is quite good with dates (storing them as serial numbers), VBA gives you programmatic control to parse, calculate, format, and interact with dates and times in powerful ways. Let’s see how you can wield this capability.
Need to calculate the total number of days in a coupon period for a bond in Excel? The COUPDAYS function lets you find how many days exist between coupon payment dates without manually counting calendar days. This guide shows you how, step-by-step.
Imagine you and your friends decide to rent a vacation home for a weekend. The total cost for the stay is $600. However, not everyone can stay for both nights. You need to figure out how much each person should pay, ensuring it’s fair, based on the number of nights they’re staying. This is a perfect scenario for using pro rata calculations, and Excel is our tool of choice to solve this puzzle.