Hi. well, doing a project called finance. for a school project, and a book, for my vb class. now the project is to calculate the investment, the interest rate and number of years. and the calculation is: future value = investment amount (interest rate + 1) ^years so i thought the way to calculate that was: future value = investment * interest rate * years. is that right. cheers Marvin. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind