🔒 Any improvements to this code?

[thorny oyster]

I'm writing a script that calculates a table that produces monthly payment, interest amount, remaining balance, and payment due for each month after taking in an inital purchase price. The code works, but I was wondering if there was any improvements that could be made to this code just for my reference.

***purchasePrice = float(input("Please enter the purchase price: "))
downPayment = purchasePrice * .10
interestRate = 0.12
loanAmount = purchasePrice - downPayment
monthlyPayment = loanAmount * 0.05
currentBalance = loanAmount
month = 1

header = (f"{'Month':<6}{'Balance':<15}{'Interest':<15}{'Principal':<15}{'Payment':<15}{'Remaining Balance':<15}")

print(header)
while currentBalance > 0:
interestOwed = currentBalance * (interestRate / 12)
principalOwed = monthlyPayment - interestOwed

if principalOwed > currentBalance:
    principalOwed = currentBalance
    payment = principalOwed + interestOwed
    currentBalance = 0
else:
    payment = monthlyPayment
    currentBalance -= principalOwed

print(f"{month:<6}{loanAmount:<15.2f}{interestOwed:<15.2f}{principalOwed:<15.2f}{payment:<15.2f}{currentBalance:<15.2f}")

month +=1
loanAmount -= principalOwed

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