Re: [Mifos-functional] Interest Rate Entry

2008-04-30 Thread Arpita Adhicary
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Re: [Mifos-functional] Interest Rate Entry

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Blue
Hi Arpita, Thanks for the reply. I just tried a flat rate loan on the Mifos demo server: $1000 @ 10% for 20 weeks. The repayment schedule yielded 20 payments of $52 each which is 4%. The 10% x 20 weeks/52 weeks equals 3.85% rounding to 4%. So it seems on the demo server the entered flat rate i

Re: [Mifos-functional] Interest Rate Entry

2008-04-28 Thread Arpita Adhicary
Hi Jeff, 1. Mifos has 3 ways of calculating interest: Flat Rate, Declining Balance Method and Declining Balance-Equal Principal Installment. If an MFI uses Flat Rate of interest, then the interest rate is charged irrespective of the period. Grameen Koota, a Bangalore based MFI using Mifos have use

[Mifos-functional] Interest Rate Entry

2008-04-28 Thread Jeff Blue
Let me try again. Sorry, but I incorrectly described how Mifos expects the interest rate to be entered. However, I still desire help with how best to handle my MFI client's service charge/interest rate. SEM charges a flat rate, say 10%, of the loan amount. That's 10% of the total loan amount re

[Mifos-functional] Interest Rate Entry

2008-04-19 Thread Jeff Blue
Hello everyone, my name is Jeff Blue. I'm a programmer looking at Mifos for SEM, an MFI in Senegal, Africa (http://www.sem-fund.org/). One aspect of Mifos that would be potentially confusing to SEM's loan officers and a likely cause of data entry errors is the way the loan interest rate is ente