WorksheetFunction.TBillPrice(Object, Object, Object) Method

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

Assembly:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll

Returns the price per $100 face value for a Treasury bill.

public double TBillPrice (object Arg1, object Arg2, object Arg3);

Public Function TBillPrice (Arg1 As Object, Arg2 As Object, Optional Arg3 As Object) As Double

Parameters

Arg1

Object

Settlement - the Treasury bill's settlement date. The security settlement date is the date after the issue date when the Treasury bill is traded to the buyer.

Arg2

Object

Maturity - the Treasury bill's maturity date. The maturity date is the date when the Treasury bill expires.

Arg3

Object

Discount - the Treasury bill's discount rate.

Returns

Double

Remarks

Important: Dates should be entered by using the DATE function, or as results of other formulas or functions. For example, use DATE(2008,5,23) for the 23rd day of May, 2008. Problems can occur if dates are entered as text.

Microsoft Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so they can be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number 1, and January 1, 2008 is serial number 39448 because it is 39,448 days after January 1, 1900. Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh uses a different date system as its default.

Settlement and maturity are truncated to integers.

If settlement or maturity is not a valid date, TBillPrice returns the #VALUE! error value.

If discount ≤ 0, TBillPrice returns the #NUM! error value.

If settlement > maturity, or if maturity is more than one year after settlement, TBillPrice returns the #NUM! error value.

TBillPrice is calculated as follows:

Figure 1: Equation for the TBillPrice method

where:

DSM = number of days from settlement to maturity, excluding any maturity date that is more than one calendar year after the settlement date.