Week 7 Flashcards
Effective Interest Rate
-Calculated from APR
-What the APR rate looks like based on number of Payments you are making
APR Rate
-Annual percentage rate for the loan
-Shows the interest rate for a whole year rather than monthly payments/rate
ERate formula:
(1+APR Rate/Comp Periods)^(Comp Periods/Payment Periods)-1
Canadian Mortgage Quirk:
Semi annually compounded!!! twice in a year
but still payed monthly (USUALLY) but can be bi-weekly(26) or semi monthly (24)
Canadian Mortgage Erate: IF PAYED MONTHLY
(1+APR Rate/2)^(2/12)-1
This is just a version of:
(1+APR Rate/Comp Periods)^(Comp Periods/Payment Periods)-1
Loan Payments are normally paid
Monthly
Loan Payments E-rate (2)
(1+APR Rate/Comp Periods)^(Comp Periods/Payment Periods)-1
so…
(1+APR Rate/12)^(12/12)-1
APR Rate/12
Credit Card Monthly Payments compounded?
DAILY
Credit Card Erate formula
(1+APR Rate/Comp Periods)^(Comp Periods/Payment Periods)-1
so…
(1+APR Rate/365)^(365/12)-1
How many compounding periods are there for each?
Canadian Mortgage
Credit Card
Loan
Semi Annually (2 times in a year)
Daily (365)
Loan (12)
Daily
Monthly
Quarterly
Semi Annually
Semi Monthly
Annually
bi-weekly
365
12
4
2
24
1
26
When do you use APR rate in the formula?
When calculating Erate for Canadian Mortgages, Loans, Credit Cards
What is the number of payments in the calculating Erate functions?
Always 12!
IMPORTANT FOR PMT FUNCTION!
Do NOT make anything NEGATIVE!!!! BECAUSE payment is money going out of account so pmt has to be negative itself!!
Ammortization Schedlue
Shows what monthly payments look like broken down by payments that go towards the principle and payments that pay down interest