Find out the best practices for most financial modeling to price a bond, calculate coupon payments, and calculate a bond's yield to maturity in Microsoft Excel.

Find out how to calculate the yield to maturity of a zero-coupon bond, and learn why this calculation is simpler than one with a bond that has a coupon.

Yield to maturity measures a bond's expected returns if held to maturity. Unlike dividend yields, yield to maturities are forwards-looking, and take into consideration both income and capital gains.

A Treasury bill, or T-bill, is a short-term government debt security that doesn't pay interest, so the process of calculating its return differs a bit. Let's dive in.

Bond Yield Curves Bond yield curve (Wendorf) Bond yields are typically graphed, with the y-axis displaying interest rates, and the x-axis displaying maturity lengths.