About this lesson

K5 LESSON 35 · PASS

IPMT and PPMT: splitting a loan repayment into interest and principal

IPMT gives the interest part of one repayment and PPMT the principal part: =IPMT(rate,period,periods,amount) and =PPMT(rate,period,periods,amount), with the same arguments as PMT plus the period you want. The two always add up to the PMT repayment. For a run of periods, =-CUMIPMT(rate,periods,amount,first,last,0) totals the interest.

Using Google Sheets? Do this lesson in Sheets.

=PMT(B2/B4,B3*B4,-B1)

What you'll practise

Budget the finance costs on a five-year term loan: the quarterly repayment, how much of one quarter's repayment is interest and how much is principal, and the interest for the whole first year.

4 steps · 40 points · the cells outlined in gold below

  • IPMT
  • PPMT
  • CUMIPMT
  • term loans
  • finance costs

The data

AB
1Term loan ($)$2,000,000.00
2Annual rate7.25%
3Years5
4Repayments a year4
5
6Quarterly repayment
7Quarter to look at7
8Interest that quarter
9Principal that quarter
10Interest in year 1

Semester pass · A$49 for six months

This drill comes with the semester pass.

Every lesson, for A$49 every six months. Cancel any time and you keep the pass until the six months you've paid for run out.