Welcome to this bash script that calculates payments for a hire purchase contract.
Please follow the prompts.
It will return the figures required to write up the contract.
******Important; Enter whole dollars only and zero for empty fields.******

Do you wish to view a table of payment periods? (y/n)
y
 +---------------------+-------+--------+------------+-------+
 |                     | Years | Months | Fortnights | Weeks |
 +---------------------+-------+--------+------------+-------+
 |                     |  �    |      6 |         13 |    26 |
 |                     |  1    |     12 |         26 |    52 |
 |                     |  1 �  |     18 |         39 |    78 |
 |                     |  2    |     24 |         52 |   104 |
 |                     |  2 �  |     30 |         65 |   130 |
 |                     |  3    |     36 |         78 |   156 |
 |  Payments per year  |  1    |     12 |         26 |    52 |
 +---------------------+-------+--------+------------+-------+

Enter the purchase price.
10000
Enter the PPI premium.
100
Enter other charges.
0
Enter deposit.
1000
Enter trade in allowance.
2000
Enter the number of payments over the term of the loan
156
Enter the number of payments in a year
52
Enter interest rate. If 12.5%, enter "12.5", not ".125".
12.5
Enter documentation fee.
100
Enter other fixed charges.
25
Enter the date of first payment.
Please use the following format yyyymmdd ie 20041231 for 31/12/2004.
20090222
 +-------------------------+---------------------------+
 |          What           |          Amount           |
 +-------------------------+---------------------------+
 | Total gross cost (A)    |  $10,100                  |
 | Total deposit (B)       |  $3,000                   |
 | Amount financed (C)     |  $7,100                   |
 | Number of Installments  |  156                      |
 | Interest rate           |  12.5%                    |
 | Instalment amount       |  $55.43                   |
 | Interest charged        |  $1,422.08                |
 | Cost of credit          |  $1,547.08                |
 | Balance payable         |  $8,647.08                |
 | First payment date      |  Sunday 22 February 2009  |
 | Last payment date       |  Sunday 12 February 2012  |
 +-------------------------+---------------------------+