
Originally Posted by
garic
*TS, loan computation pretty much had been standardized by BSP to be in line with global financial industry. Hence, to get the information you required, you can follow this steps:
1. Open MS Excel on your PC.
2. Select Open, then find "installed templates", then look for the "Loan Amortization"
3. Enter the following details
- Loan Amount (not the value of the car, but the actual amount you financed with the bank)
- Annual interest rate (this I think should be reflected in your contract. note that this is annual, do not use the interest rate for the whole 5 years as the output will be wrong)
- Loan period in years. in your case = 5
- Number of payments per year = 12
- Start date of loan - input date when you started the loan, but doesn't really matter much in computation of the amount as you only need to see the amortization table (payment and interest for each month).
- Optional Extra payments - leave blank
4. Assuming that you have not paid the 24th month yet and you will to settle everything, your payment will be the total of the following
- "Scheduled payment" on "Payment No." 24
- "Ending Balance" on "Payment No." 24
The above computation excluded per-termination and other fees that the bank may add.
Also, you may notice that your principal did not reduced significantly yet, this is because banks will prioritize interest payments to get as much profit as possible and they foresee that a lot will per-terminate their loans - so get they get the interests early.
HTH