Percentage to Get Invested Return

[Markey]

I pulled these numbers manually but would like to learn how to do it with
Excel.

A small nonprofit would like to receive $25,000 annually from their
endowment investment to cover operating costs. The question is how much is
needed in their endowment to receive that $25,000 if 2%, 3%, 4%, .... 9%,
etc. is the percentage of return? The board wants to be able to enter a
percentage and Excel calculate the endowment investment total.

Here are my manual totals.

Amount Percentage Amount to Operate
$1,250,000 2% $25,000
$833,340 3% $25,000
$625,000 4% $25,000
$500,000 5% $25,000
$416,660 6% $25,000
$357,140 7% $25,000
$312,500 8% $25,000
$277,780 9% $25,000

Thank you.

 

[PJFry]

Say that column A has the amount needed, column B has the % that the board
enters and column C is the static $25,000.

In column A you need this formula:
=C1/B1

$25,000/.09 = $277,780
$25,000/.02 = $1,250,000
etc.

Is that what your are looking to do?

Post back and let us know.

 

[Markey]

I knew there was a very simple way but I worked with that crazy thing
yesterday and never could get it. I was trying to make it too complicated.

Many thanks for your help. I've bookmarked this site -- it's great.