Creating a Financial Math Calculator

bastianrecr — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:56:07 +0000

Since I love Financial Math and investing, I thought about creating a program that would help me in the near future to make my calculations without having to do them manually with pen and paper as I usually like to do them. I know there are a lot of programs out there that help you calculate things like interest, account worth, periods, etcetera. I wanted to create something that is more descriptive and user-friendly avoiding as much financial jargon as possible and guiding the user through the calculations. So far what I accomplished now is a fully functional calculator that provides you with the account worth after a given number of years investing a certain amount at an interest rate compounded every 'n' periods. In the future, I am planning to give it more functionality like calculating the number of years it will take to reach a certain amount in your account or calculating how much you would need to invest to obtain a certain amount of money.

Here is an example of what it does for now and the link to my project in GitHub:

https://github.com/bastianrecr/financial_calculator

I will keep you posted about new features added :).

Sebastian

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Creating a Financial Math Calculator