FinKit Changelog

What's new in FinKit 3.3.5

Dec 29, 2014
  • added new life tables for Australia (2010-2011) and Finland (2010-2012)

New in FinKit 3.3.4 (Oct 25, 2014)

  • added new life tables for Canada (2010-2011)

New in FinKit 3.3.3 (Sep 1, 2014)

  • Added new life tables for Belarus (2013), Spain (2010-2012) and Japan (2010-2012)
  • Fixed a bug in the Zero-Coupon Bond Yield calculation
  • Interface bug fixes

New in FinKit 3.3.2 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • minor bug fixes

New in FinKit 3.3.1 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Fixed several issues that caused loan amortization schedules not to be calculated corrrectly.

New in FinKit 3.3 (Mar 5, 2014)

  • added new life tables for Belgium (2010-2012), France (2011-2012) and Portugal (2010-2012)
  • new preferences format
  • new bundle identifier
  • made preparations to convert FinKit to a multi-document application

New in FinKit 3.2.13 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Added new life tables for Belarus (2011-2012)
  • The Estonian Kroon and the Latvian Lats are now listed in the EMU currencies pane of the Currencies window
  • Exchange rates for the Israeli New Shekel can now be updated automatically
  • Fixed an issue that prevented rates from being updated with data provided bij the European Central Bank
  • Fixed incorrect labels in the Periods and Days calculation

New in FinKit 3.2.12 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • added new life tables for England and Wales (2010-2011), Estonia (2011, Northern Ireland (2010-2011), Scotland (2010-2011), United Kingdom (2010-2011), Latvia (2011), Lithuania (2011) and Germany (2011)

New in FinKit 3.2.11 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • added new life tables for Canada (2008-2009) and Denmark (2010-2011)

New in FinKit 3.2.10 (Jan 7, 2013)

  • Added new life tables for the United States (2010) and Switzerland (2008-2011)

New in FinKit 3.2.9 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Added new life tables for Italy (2009) and the Czech Republic (2010-2011)

New in FinKit 3.2.8 (Nov 26, 2012)

  • Added new life tables for Germany (2010).

New in FinKit 3.2.7 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Added new life tables for Bulgaria (2010), France (2010) and Latvia (2010)

New in FinKit 3.2.6 (Oct 1, 2012)

  • added new life tables for Sweden (2009-2011)

New in FinKit 3.2.5 (Aug 27, 2012)

  • Added new life tables for Estonia (2010) and the United States (2008-2009)
  • Implemented code signing for Gatekeeper compatibility

New in FinKit 3.2.4 (Apr 16, 2012)

  • Added new life tables for Australia (2008-2009) and Taiwan (2010))

New in FinKit 3.2.3 (Feb 20, 2012)

  • added new life tables for Austria (2009-2010), Iceland (2009-2010) and Lithuania (2010))

New in FinKit 3.2.2 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • Added new life tables for Israel (2009), Belarus (2008-2010) and Russia (2010)

New in FinKit 3.2.1 (Jul 31, 2011)

  • Added new life tables for Denmark (2009), France (2008-2009), Germany (2009), Hungary (2007-2009), Italy (2008), Luxembourg (2008-2009), Netherlands (2009), Russia (2009), Spain (2006), Ukraine (2006), Slovakia (2009) and Norway (2009)

New in FinKit 3.1.1 (Mar 18, 2011)

  • updated the Black-Scholes calculations so that they can handle a 0 % risk free rate
  • added new life tables for Belgium (2009), Czech Republic (2009), Slovakia (2009), Finland (2009), Italy (2007), Sweden (2008), Japan (2009), Slovenia (2009) and Bulgaria (2009)

New in FinKit 3.1 (Dec 5, 2010)

  • the new Periods and Days calculation calculates the number of full periods and the number of stub days between two dates
  • the new Simple Interest between Dates calculation calculates simple interest between two dates based on the number of full periods and the number of stub days
  • the new Actuarial Interest between Dates calculation calculates actuarial interest between two dates based on the number of full periods and the number of stub days
  • the Compound Interest between Dates calculation (formerly known as Interest between Dates) calculates compound interest between two dates based on the year fraction as obtained by applying a given day count convention
  • added new life tables for Latvia (2009), Netherlands (2008), Poland (2009), England and Wales, Northern Ireland (2009), Scotland (2009) and Israel (2008)

New in FinKit 3.0.6 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • new life tables for Lithuania (2009), Estonia (2009), Luxembourg (2007), Taiwan (2009) and USA (2007)
  • updated interest tables

New in FinKit 3.0.5 (Oct 17, 2010)

  • new life tables for Canada (2007)
  • updated interest tables

New in FinKit 3.0.4 (Sep 26, 2010)

  • new life tables for New Zealand (2007), Portugal (2009), Denmark (2008), Norway (2008) and Iceland (2008)
  • fixed an issue with saving results as Excel or Word files
  • updated interest tables
  • minor bug fixes

New in FinKit 3.0.3 (Jun 20, 2010)

  • New life tables for Belgium (2007), Finland (2008) and Japan (2008).
  • Updated interest tables.

New in FinKit 3.0.2 (Mar 8, 2010)

  • new life tables for Austria (2006-2008), Germany (2005-2008), Russia (2007-2008) and the Slovak Republic (2007-2008)
  • updated interest tables

New in FinKit 3.0 (Jan 29, 2010)

  • Added new day count conventions to the Interest Between Dates calculation: act/act EUR, act/365/L, NL/365, 30/360 ISDA, 30/360 US (NASD), 30E/360 ISDA, 30/360 US, 30/360 SIA, 30/360 BMA, 30/360 IT
  • Added new day count conventions to the Year Fraction calculation: act/act EUR, act/365/L, NL/365, 30/360 ISDA, 30/360 US (NASD), 30E/360 ISDA, 30/360 US, 30/360 SIA, 30/360 BMA, 30/360 IT
  • Added an actuarial day count method to the Year Fraction calculation, based on annual, semiannual, quarterly, bimonthly, monthly, semimonthly, biweekly, weekly and daily unit-periods, in combination with 365, 364 and 360 day years
  • The Date Series calculation can now generate a series of dates both going backward or forward from a given date, using annual, semiannual, quarterly, bimonthly, monthly, semimonthly, biweekly and weekly intervals, with or without end-of-month adjustments
  • Updated interest tables.

New in FinKit 2.9.11 (Nov 29, 2009)

  • New life tables for Israel (2000-2007) and the United Kingdom (2000-2006).
  • Updated life tables for Australia (2005-2007), Canada (2006), Czech Republic (2008), , France (2007), United States (2006) and Taiwan (2008).
  • Updated interest tables.
  • Snow Leopard compatibility fixes.

New in FinKit 2.9.10 (Jun 2, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that caused the application to crash just after registering.
  • Fixed an issue with the tab order of fields.
  • Updated interest tables.

New in FinKit 2.9.9 (Apr 13, 2009)

  • Added life tables for Northern Ireland (2000-2006) and Chile (2000-2005).
  • New life tables for Japan (2006-2007), Bulgaria (2006-2007), Hungary (2006), Norway (2007), Italy (2006), England and Wales (2006).
  • Updated interest tables.

New in FinKit 2.9.8 (Jan 17, 2009)

  • Added new life tables for Ireland and Scotland (new countries).
  • The Slovak Koruna joined the Eurozone on January 1, 2009 and is now listed as an EMU currency.
  • Daily rates for the Brazilian Real, the Indian Rupee and the Mexican Peso can now be updated automatically using rates provided by the European Central Bank.

New in FinKit 2.9.7 (Dec 2, 2008)

  • Added new life tables for Sweden (2007) and Finland (2007).
  • Updated interest tables.

New in FinKit 2.9.6 (Oct 31, 2008)

  • Added new life tables for Belarus (2006), Belgium (2005), Denmark (2007), France (2006), Iceland (2007), Italy (2005), Luxembourg (2006), Portugal (2007), Switzerland (2007) and Taiwan (2007).
  • Updated interest tables.

New in FinKit 2.9.5 (Aug 21, 2008)

  • Fixed a localization error in the Currencies window.
  • Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the result buttons to display an incorrect caption.
  • Updated interest tables.
  • Removed unnecessary resources.

New in FinKit 2.9.4 (Jul 22, 2008)

  • new life tables for Canada (2005), England and Wales (2005), The Netherlands (2006), Portugal (2006) and Spain (2006)
  • added life tables for Luxembourg (2000-2005) and Poland (2000-2006)
  • the Life Tables, Interest Tables windows can now be resized horizontally
  • new Check for Updates menu command makes it easier to check for updates and to download newer versions
  • new Registration menu command lets registered users check and save their license info
  • enhanced the Currencies window and its related utility windows
  • Euro exchange rates for the Brazilian Real, the New Turkish Lira and the New Romanian Leu can now be updated automatically
  • internal optimizations and minor bug fixes