The Time Value of Money Flashcards
Capital
wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
Simple interest
Simple interest is interest calculated on the principal portion of a loan or the original contribution to a savings account.
Simple interest is used frequently
Computation of simple interest
If 5000 were loaned for 5 years at a simple interest rate of 7%
per year, the interest earned would be?
Compound interest
Compound interest is the interest on a loan or deposit that accrues on both the initial principal and the accumulated interest from previous periods.
Compound interest reflects both the remaining principle and any accumulated interest
Compound interest example
illustration of simple vs compound interest
Economic equivalence
Cash flow diagrams defintion
Cash flow diagrams visually represent income and expenses over some time interval.
Cash flow diagrams
graph
we can apply compound interest formulas to ‘move’ cash flows along the cash flow diagram
Pause and Solve 1
There are interest factors for a series of end-of-period cash flows