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Category Archives: Financial

How to make Banklink run under Ubuntu Linux

I’ve been a fan of FOSS/Open Source software for quite a few years now. One of the results of this is that I now use Ubuntu Linux as my main PC at the office, and also on my Asus EeePC when I’m travelling. It works great, and I love it.

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The Time Value of Money

Sadly, just about everything these days requires money. In a time where the media are using as many boot-quaking adjectives as they can to describe the state of the economy, money matters can be a real headache. Thankfully, Excel can help to ease that headache, if only slightly.

A couple of handy formulas in Excel that will be useful to just about anyone are related to the time value of money. In this blog post we will touch briefly on the formula ‘future value’ (=FV). Read More »