- Throw an error message if the number of coupons is not equal to the number of coupon dates. - Avoid kernel shutdown if coupon dates, but no coupons (i.e. empty list) are porvided. - Throw an error message if the number of spreads is not equal to the number of coupon dates minus one: len(Spreads) == len(Coupon_Period_Dates) - 1.