Dec 23, 2021
Hi Puffin,
Thanks for the comment! :)
1) To be honest I was not sure why but this was the way I learned at school and used back in the days when I was working in banking. After google searching, it seems that financial often use 360 days but it seems that we could also use 365 days: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-interest-calculated-for-360-days-in-a-year-whereas-there-are-365-days-and-366-days-in-a-leap-year