Excel offers simplicity via convenience: yield to maturity and internal rate of return are at hand on such ubiquitous tool. During the preparation of our mostly sought-after e-learning training sessions for the EFPA certificate, at eXponential we have realized how bewildered financial advisors are sometimes at dealing with Excel for some of the basic tasks needed (Italian only).
It would be interesting to see some more advanced applications of IRR (TIR.X, I believe). Any in programme?
Sven, they’ll come soon. Not now, though!