SBFM97: Total Monthly Payments Calculation Is Incorrect
Article ID: 164745
Article Last Modified on 8/5/2004
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q164745
SYMPTOMS
The Total Monthly Payments and Present Value of Payments
calculations may be incorrect when you perform a Buy vs. Lease analysis.
CAUSE
This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:
- You use the What-If Wizard (on the Accounting menu) to run
a Buy vs. Lease analysis. -and-
- You type any value other than 12 in the Payments Per Year
box in step 2 of the Analyze Buy Versus Lease dialog box.
The calculations use 12 payments per year instead of the number
you specify in the wizard.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the
Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has
been fixed in the updated versions of the Quickbooks driver and Msapp.dll.
The following
file is available for download from the Microsoft Download
Center:
For
additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the
following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
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Additional query words: XL97 8.00 sbfm sbfm97qb exe
Keywords: KB164745