Exonio

This gem brings some useful Excel formulas to Ruby. For now, it just has financial formulas, but could have more (like statistical formulas) in the future.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'exonio'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install exonio

To use Exonio you just have to call the method you like to use. Example:

 Exonio.pmt(0.075 / 12, 12 * 15, 200_000) # ==> -1854.0247200054619

The Excel EFFECT function returns the effective annual interest rate, given a nominal interest rate and the number of compounding periods per year. Effective annual interest rate is the interest rate actually earned due to compounding. More about this function EFFECT

Exonio.effect(0.05, 10 * 12) # ==> 0.05126014873337037

The Excel NOMINAL function returns the nominal interest rate when given an effective annual interest rate and the number of compounding periods per year. The effective rate is the actual rate due to compounding. The nominal rate is typically the stated rate. More about this function NOMINAL

Exonio.nominal(0.05, 12 / 6) # ==> 0.04939015319191986

What is the future value after 10 years of saving $100 now, with an additional monthly savings of $100 with the interest rate at 5% (annually) compounded monthly?

Exonio.fv(0.05 / 12, 10 * 12, -100, -100) # ==> 15692.928894335748

By convention, the negative sign represents cash flow out (i.e. money not available today). Thus, saving $100 a month at 5% annual interest leads to $15,692.93 available to spend in 10 years.

Suppose one invests 100 units and then makes the following withdrawals at regular (fixed) intervals: 39, 59, 55, 20. Assuming the ending value is 0, one's 100 unit investment yields 173 units; however, due to the combination of compounding and the periodic withdrawals, the "average" rate of return is neither simply 0.73/4 nor (1.73)^0.25-1.

Exonio.irr([-100, 39, 59, 55, 20]) # ==> 0.28095

So, the internal rate of return is 28.09%

What is the interest part of a payment in the 8th period (i.e., 8th month), having a $5,000 loan to be paid in 2 years at an annual interest rate of 7.5%?

Exonio.ipmt(0.075 / 12, 8, 12 * 2, 5_000.00) # ==> -22.612926783996798

So, in the 8th payment, $22.61 are the interest part.

If you only had $150/month to pay towards the loan, how long would it take to pay-off a loan of $8,000 at 7% annual interest?

Exonio.nper(0.07 / 12, -150, 8000) # ==> 64.07334877066185

So, over 64 months would be required to pay off the loan.

Calculates the Net Present Value of an investment

Exonio.npv(0.281, [-100, 39, 59, 55, 29]) # ==> -0.00661872883563408

What is the monthly payment needed to pay off a $200,000 loan in 15 years at an annual interest rate of 7.5%?

Exonio.pmt(0.075 / 12, 12 * 15, 200_000) # ==> -1854.0247200054619

In order to pay-off (i.e., have a future-value of 0) the $200,000 obtained today, a monthly payment of $1,854.02 would be required. Note that this example illustrates usage of fv (future value) having a default value of 0.

What is the present value (e.g., the initial investment) of an investment that needs to total $20,000.00 after 10 years of saving $100 every month? Assume the interest rate is 5% (annually) compounded monthly.

Exonio.pv(0.05 / 12, 12 * 10, -100, 20_000) # ==> -2715.0857731569663

By convention, the negative sign represents cash flow out (i.e., money not available today). Thus, to end up with $20,000.00 in 10 years saving $100 a month at 5% annual interest, an initial deposit of $2715,09 should be made.

Suppose you take a loan of $50,000.00 to pay in 3 years with a monthly payment of $2,500.00. What is the rate applied to this loan?

Exonio.rate(12 * 3, 2_500, -50_000) # ==> 0.036006853458478955

So, the rate applied is 3.60%.

Exonio.sum([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) # ==> 15

Exonio.mean([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) # ==> 3.0

Exonio.median([1, 2, 3, 6, 5, 4]) # ==> 3.5

There's a lot of formulas to be implemented, including:

• ACCRINT
• ACCRINTM
• AMORDEGRC
• AMORLINC
• DB
• DDB
• MIRR
• PPMT
• SLN
• SYD
• VDB

So feel free to pick one of those and open a pull request \o/.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a branch
3. Hack hack hack...
4. Create a spec
5. Open a Pull Request ;)

Exonio is released under the MIT License.

A special thanks goes to the python NumPy project, which was the source for most of the formulas.