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Overview
North52 BPA can be used for calculating common financial formulas. This example shows you how to create the Present Value of a future amount of money.
North52 BPA Solution
The North52 BPA solution works like this:
- A Formula is created for a entity which has four custom fields which capture the Future Value Amount (FV), Percentage Interest Rate Per Period (I) and the number of periods (N)
- A Decision Table is set up which:
- Checks all fields have values
- Calculates the Present Value using the following formula:
- PV = FV/ (1+ I/100)N
- Saves the calculated value into a custom field called Present Value