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Setting up a demo spreadsheet for a workshop, I - accidentally - found my self comparing the calculation of day count fractions using finmath lib's Java implementation with the calculation using the spreadsheets YEARFRAC function. To my surprise, the implementation of this function is surprisingly unclear and inconsistent. Some facts about YEARFRAC in Excel, LibreOffice, OpenOffice. The spreadsheet function YEARFRAC(Date start, Date end, Integer basis) implement five different methods for calculating day count fractions, depending on the value of basis = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. According to the 'documentation' these methods are 30U/360 (basis=0), ACT/ACT (basis=1), ACT/360 (basis=2), ACT/365 (basis=3), 30E/360. • The Excel implementation of 'ACT/ACT', i.e. YEARFRAC(start, end,4) does not agree with - the very common - ACT/ACT ISDA.
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I saw a claim that Excel implements ACT/ACT AFB, but I could not verify this claim. • I have a reimplementation of all 4 daycount conventions implemented by Excel.
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As can be seen in the image above, this example will use the YEARFRAC function in cell E3 to find the length of time between two dates — March 9, 2012, and November 1, 2013. This example makes use of cell references to the location of the start and end dates since they are usually easier to work with than entering serial date numbers.