Enter your previous unpaid balance, interest rate, additional purchases, and previous payment made towards the balance to determine the current unpaid balance.

## Unpaid Balance Formula

The following formula is used to calculate the current unpaid balance given a previous balance, interest rate, additional purchases, and payments made towards the balance.

UB = PB*I + PB – DP + AP

• Where UB is the unpaid balance ($) • PB is the prevoius balance ($)
• I is the interest rate (%)
• DP is any down payments made on the balance over the last month ($) • AP are additional purchases in the last month ($)

## What are unpaid balances?

Unpaid balances are defined as the total amount due on a loan or credit card that has gone unpaid from the previous payment period.

In other words, the balance you will owe the next time a payment is due.

## Example Problem

How to calculate an unpaid balance?

First, determine the previous balance on the credit card. For this example, the person had a previous balance of $300.00. Next, determine the interest rate on the card. This should be the periodic interest rate, which in this case, is found to be 15%. Next, determine any amount of payments made to the unpaid balance. Over the last month, the person in this example paid$50 towards the balance.

Next, determine any additional purchases made with the card. For this example, there was 25$worth of purchases made on the card. Finally, calculate the next/current unpaid balance using the formula above: UB = PB*I + PB – DP + AP UB = 300*.15 + 300 – 50 + 25 UB =$320.00.