The Time Value of Money Flashcards
(18 cards)
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
Pause and solve 2




Deferred annuities
