Handling Financial Data

You finally landed that big programming job at MegaMegaBank—congratulations! But now there's some trouble—just what is an "internal rate of return" anyway? Visual Basic to the rescue—there are 13 Visual Basic functions devoted entirely to financial work, and they appear in Table 2.12.

Table 2.12: The Visual Basic financial functions.
To do this	Use this
Calculate depreciation	DDB, SLN, SYD
Calculate future value	FV
Calculate interest rate	Rate
Calculate internal rate of return	IRR, MIRR
Calculate number of periods	NPer
Calculate payments	IPmt, Pmt, PPmt
Calculate present value	NPV, PV