VBA NPER Function (Syntax + Example)

The VBA NPER function is listed under the financial category of VBA functions. When you use it in a VBA code, it calculates the number of payments that need to be made for a loan or an investment where payment and rate of interest are the same.

Syntax

NPER(Rate, Pmt, Pv, [Fv], [Due])

Arguments

• Rate: The rate of interest for the period.
• Pmt: The fixed amount of payment per period.
• PV: The present value of investment or loan.
• [FV]: The future value of the loan/investment [This is an optional argument and if omitted VBA takes 0 by default].
• [Due]: Defines whether the payment is due at the start or the end of the period, use 0 for the end of the period and 1 for the start of the period [This is an optional argument, and if omitted VBA takes the end of the period by default].

Example

To practically understand how to use the VBA NPER function, you need to go through the below example where we have written a vba code by using it:

Sub example_NPER()

Range("A9").Value = NPer(0.08 / 12, 1000, 96000)

End Sub

In the above code, we have used the NPR to calculate the total number of periods for the investment and it has returned 67.17.

Notes

1. Both “rate” and “nper” arguments need to calculate using payment periods that are expressed in the same units.
2. If the future value supplied will never be met for the supplied interest rate and payments then the VBA will return an error.