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Formula for Net Present Value

aandreala
Registered: May 13 2010
Posts: 2

Can anyone help identify the SFN or javascript formula for calculating Net Present Value?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi aandreala,

I think you are going to have to be more specific in what it is you want to do. I for one do not know what "SFN" is nor "Net Present Value." You may get lucky and someone will know what those terms are, and maybe even the correct context you are referring to, but I doubt anyone is going to spend time looking it up and then write a script for it.

Dimitri
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
I think "SFN" is 'Simplified Field Notation". And the 'Simplified Field Notation' option of the calculation tab does not support any function.

There is no Net Present Value function defined within Acrobat or JavaScript. But you can perform addition (+), division (/) and exponentiation (Math.pow(10,n) ) with JavaScript, so you can write your own custom calculation script to perform the computation. I would suggest that you write it as a function with passed parameters.

Now what formula do you want to use?

Do you want a series of NPV's by year?

George Kaiser

Dimitri
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Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
LOL- should have guessed that one (Simplified Field Notation). Thanks gkaiseril.

Dimitri
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