Financial Math
A set of financial equations.

This library provides a set of financial equations.
This library is based on the book titled:
Matemáticas financieras
El valor del dinero en el tiempo
by Zbigniew Kozikowski Zarska
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'financial_math'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install financial_math
Content
This cover the next topics in financial math:
- Geometric Progression
- Arithemetic Progression
- Simple Interest
- Compound Interest
More content will be added, soon, like:
- Annuities
- Valuation
- Amortization
- Stock market math
Usage
To calculate the last item of a geometric progression:
progression = FinancialMath::GeometricProgression.new(initial_value: 1100, ratio: 1.1, times: 5)
progression.last_item
To calculate the future value:
class Accountant
include FinancialMath::SimpleInterest
end
accountant = Accountant.new
accountant.future_value(present_value: 100_000.0, interest_rate: 0.05, periods: 3)
The interest rate must be in terms of years, if your problem is expressed in terms of days or months, provide the frequency of conversion and the periods in terms of days.
class Accountant
include FinancialMath::SimpleInterest
end
accountant = Accountant.new
accountant.future_value(present_value: 1500.0, interest_rate: 0.45, periods: 3, frequency: 360)
Available simple interest formulas

Available compound interest formulas

Development
If want test this gem without clone this repo, type:
$ gem install financial_math --dev
This command will get the development dependencies installed too.
Release History
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.2
- ADD: Add version badge and fix some typos in README
- 1.0.1
- 1.0.0
- CHANGE: Remove
SimpleInterest()
- CHANGE: Remove
CompoundInterest()
- ADD: Add
CompoundInterest sub-modules
- ADD: Add
SimpleInterest sub-modules
- 0.7.0
- ADD: Add
present_value, continous_present_value to CompoundInterest as public methods
- ADD: Add
internal_rate_of_return, real_rate_of_return and a_good_investment? to CompoundInterest as public methods
- 0.6.0
- ADD: Add
@frequency to SimpleInterest class
- CHANGE: Change the
periods_in_days mehtod to factor in SimpleInterest
- 0.5.0
- ADD: Add
average_growth_rate and continous_future_value public methods to CompoundInterest class
- 0.4.1
- CHANGE: Update docs (module code remains unchanged)
- 0.4.0
- ADD: Add
CompoundInterest class
- 0.3.1
- CHANGE: Update docs (module code remains unchanged)
- 0.3.0
- ADD: Add
SimpleInterest class
- 0.3.0
- ADD: Add
GEometricProgression class
- 0.2.0
- ADD: Add
ArithemeticProgression class
- 0.1.0
- The first proper release
- ADD: The basic file with basic equations
- 0.0.1
Meta
Daniel Omar Vergara Pérez – @dan1_net – daniel.omar.vergara@gmail.com
https://github.com/dany2691/
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/dany2691/financial_math. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
Contributing
- Fork it (https://github.com/dany2691/financial_math/fork)
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
- Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
- Push to the branch (
git push origin feature/fooBar)
- Create a new Pull Request
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the FinancialMath project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.