ACCT20200 Chapter Notes - Chapter Appendix C: Interest, Compound Interest
Appendix C:
● Time value of money: value of money is greater today than the value of the same amount
in the future
● Simple interest: interest you can invest on the initial investment only
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● Compound interest: interest you can earn on the initial investment and on previous
interest
○ Yield increasingly larger amounts interest earnings for each period
● Future value: how much an amount today will grow to be in the future
○ 1
○ Value tables: multiply investment amount by the table value of interest (for desired
rate and number of periods)
○ The more frequent the rate of compounding, the more interest we earn on previous
interest = higher FV
● Present value: how much an amount in the future is worth today.
○ Discount rate: rate at which we would be willing to give up current dollars for future
dollars
○ 1
○ Table: PV = FV x PV factor
● Annuity: cash payments of equal amounts over time periods of equal length
○ Includes car loans, house loans, rent.
○ Consists of multiple payments and annuity means that the interest grows in a yearly
manner
○ FVA= annuity payment x (period & interest factor from table)
■ Sum of the future values of a series of cash payments
○ PVA = annuity payment x period-interest factor
■ Calculate the present value of each future amount and add them together to
determine the present value of an annuity