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1. A writtenagreementbetween theissuerof abondand his/herbondholders, usually
specifyinginterest rate,maturity date,convertibility, and otherterms.
2. A writtennoteevidencingproofof indebtedness.
It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for
Applications.
BA is the acronym for Visual Basic for Applications. It is an integration of the Microsoft's event-
driven programming language Visual Basic with Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft
Excel. By running VBA within the Microsoft Office applications, you can build customized
solutions and programs to enhance the capabilities of those applications. A lot of people might
not realize that they can actually learn the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming without
having a copy of Visual Basic professional. Why? Because there is built-in Visual Basic Editor in
Microsoft Excel, and you can use it to customize and extend capabilities of MS Excel. The
applications you build with MS Excel is called Visual Basic for Applications, or simply VBA.
You can program VBA in every version of Microsoft Office, including MS Office 97, MS
Office2000, MS Office2002, MS Office2003 and MS Office XP. The reason VBA is needed is due
to the limitations in using the built-in functions of VB and macro recording. By using VBA, you can
build some very powerful tools in MS Excel, including financial and scientific applications such as
getting financial data from the Internet as well as linear programming.
There are two ways which you could program a VBA, one is to place a command button on the
spreadsheet and start programming by clicking the command button, another one is to write
Visual Basic functions inside the VB Editor. Lets start with the command button first. In order to
place a command button on the spreadsheet, you need to click View on the MS Excel menu bar
and then click on toolbar and finally select the Control Toolbox after which the control toolbox bar
will appear. Then you click on the command buttton and draw it on the spreadsheet.