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Accounting Treatment: The balloon payment is usually recorded as a liability in the financial statements until it becomes due.
This large amount is called a balloon payment, which pays down the remaining balance when the term ends. A balloon mortgage has a short term that does not fully amortize, but the payment is usually based on a 30-year amortization schedule. Balloon mortgages are usually associated with commercial real estate loans.
In some cases, you may be able to negotiate with your finance provider to spread the balloon payment over monthly instalments – this is essentially what refinancing is. Doing this can help make the payment more manageable and reduce the financial strain of a large lump sum payment.
If there is a "balloon payment" (final balance), enter it into B4 as a positive value, and use the formula =PMT(B2, B3, -B1, B4). Those formulas also assume that payments are at the end of the period (i.e. end of month).
Fortunately, Excel can be used to create an amortization schedule. The amortization schedule template below can be used for a variable number of periods, as well as extra payments and variable interest rates.